AI Exchange: Empowering Educators for Tomorrow

AI literacy is most impactful when learning extends beyond the classroom. In this interactive session, participants will explore Day of AI's free, classroom-ready curriculum spanning multiple grade bands, along with family and community engagement resources designed to support AI literacy at home and in schools. Educators will examine adaptable lessons, implementation strategies, and outreach materials that complement existing AI education initiatives while meeting the needs of their local communities. Participants will leave with practical resources and ideas they can immediately adapt for their own educational contexts.

Schools are under increasing pressure to establish AI policies, yet many struggle to design ones that align with their goals, serve everyone, and keep pace with AI's rapid evolution. In this session, attendees will explore key policy topics and learn how schools might govern them based on their existing values. Through an interactive activity, small groups will design policies and consider their impact from multiple perspectives, including teachers, families, and administrators.

This hands-on workshop explores how interactive play can deepen learning about AI. We'll open with a short framing of MIT's approach to play-based learning, then spend most of our time rotating through interactive stations. Each station features a play-based AI activity drawn from MIT curricula, such as generating images of characters that reveal their personality traits, creative programming projects, and other low-barrier ways of putting AI tools in students' hands. Participants will leave with an understanding of MIT's philosophy of learning through play and concrete activities they can adapt for their own classrooms.

Welcome to the Actua AI Playground! A dynamic space where educators can experience Actua’s AI activities firsthand.

Through a guided exploration of engaging, classroom-ready activities, participants will discover how AI concepts, digital literacy, and responsible AI practices can be meaningfully integrated across a variety of subject areas and learning experiences.

Participants will explore how playful, hands-on experiences with AI can spark curiosity, encourage critical thinking, and make technology approachable for students.

One of the most significant advantages of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is its ability to support in completing certain tasks, allowing for the user to spend more of their time on those tasks that require the human touch. In this 75-minute workshop, educators can expect to explore a wide range of tools which can be used to support assessment and evaluation in the classroom, as well as the affordances and risks associated with each tool. We will explore feedback focused on the educator and improving their practice, as well as using AI to support with assessment and evaluation of students.

Your students are already using AI. Most AI policies are written for classrooms rather than with them. This hands-on workshop takes a different approach. Using a research-backed card game developed at the University of Toronto, you'll experience firsthand how dialogue and play can surface honest conversations about AI, bring every voice into the room, and turn them into guidelines people actually believe in. In one session, you'll move from abstract debate to concrete guidelines. You'll leave with a practical process you can run with your own teachers, students, and colleagues, and a clearer sense of what it takes to build a culture of responsible AI use that sticks. Come ready to talk, play, and build. Whether you're a teacher, teacher educator, or administrator, you'll walk out with a tool you can use right away.