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Coding & Career Readiness:  Preparing Students for Future Job Markets

11am-12pm  |  Room 1

Computer Science and coding skills are increasingly relevant for students and employees. The job market is increasingly digital, requiring teachers to prepare students for jobs that may not yet exist! Explore computer science and coding as a means of preparing K-12 students for the future job market. What are the skills that employers are looking for in candidates today? What new skills might be required for future jobs? We will also discuss how coding can help students develop the critical thinking, problem-solving, and collaboration skills that are essential for any career. Whether you're an experienced coding teacher or just starting out, you will leave this session with strategies for fostering a collaborative classroom culture that encourages honest peer feedback and a supportive environment for exploring new skills that tie to current and future careers. Shared resources will include lesson plans to implement tomorrow. Learn how you can empower your students with the skills needed to be successful in the digital world and the future job market.

How the New TA-TEKS Help You Integrate Computer Science into Core Instruction 

2pm-3:30pm  |  Room 1

Explore practical strategies and innovative solutions to overcome the challenges of integrating computer science into core instruction. We'll discuss approaches that all educators can use to incorporate CS into existing curriculum. Leave with ideas and supporting resources to help you integrate and lesson plans to get you started. 

Learning Digitally:  It's Scientific

9am-10am  |  Room 1

Empower your students with the brain tools they need to learn and thrive in a digital world. In this session, we will discuss how the brain works to gain and retain knowledge as we learn tips for how to meet student needs in a digitally enhanced environment. Regardless of your setting for digital, bring the science of learning to your classroom and watch your students soar.

AI...A Teacher's Assistant

4pm-5pm  |  Room 19B

Artificial Intelligence can be a tool to assist you in being efficient and productive so that you can focus on your students and the learning. Learn about different AI tools to use for education purposes and that can be used to make your daily routine more productive and efficient so that you can spend more time focusing on the needs of your students. Learn about what AI is (the positives and negatives), different tools (when and why to use) and leave with lesson plans and resources to help guide you through your learning journey. 

Digital Storytelling in Eight Easy Steps

3pm-4pm  |  Room 1

Digital storytelling in 8 easy steps. Help students find their voice and give stories new meaning. Leave with lesson plans and experience creating your own digital story following the process. Telling stories is part of what makes us human and a huge part of how we connect. Using technology to create digital stories takes storytelling to the next level. Learn 8 easy to follow steps to use with your students and give their voice and stories new meaning. Attendees will leave with lesson plans to implement and an experience to share with students. Attendees will create their own short digital story as they learn this simple process. Digital storytelling provides students with voice and choice in their learning path. Helping teachers to understand and feel comfortable with how to implement digital storytelling in their classroom opens the door for creativity and innovation in how students demonstrate what they’ve learned.  

Balancing the New TEKS Standards & Student Engagement

9am-10:30am  |  Room 1

Join us in this interactive session as we explore curriculum and teaching above and beyond standard compliance. Learn how to take a broader view of educational standards and how to integrate them into a customized learning experience that not only aligns with curriculum benchmarks but also engages students on a deeper level. Discover strategies to infuse life skills and cross-disciplinary connections into your CS class, fostering a dynamic and holistic approach that prepares students for the challenges of the future. Come ready to reimagine education, breaking free from traditional boundaries to create a learning environment that is both standards-aligned and genuinely captivating for students. Learn practical strategies to make learning not just standards-aligned but deeply engaging and student-centered!

Keyboarding Is as Easy as 1-2-3

11am-12:30pm  |  Room 1

Whether you already have a keyboarding program or you’re trying to get started, spark engagement for fun with keyboarding. We’ll explore tips and tricks for bringing keyboarding to your classroom. Keyboarding is an essential life skill and as we move more towards online assessments as the norm, we need to make sure that keyboarding skills aren’t the blocker to success for students. Teachers will learn about best practices for introducing and maintaining weekly keyboarding practice and the benefits of keyboarding with different methods to engage their students. Understanding how and when to help students learn to keyboard will impact students’ abilities to demonstrate their knowledge and skills during technology integrated projects in core curriculum areas and during online assessments. Teachers will leave with practical examples and tips for including keyboarding in their daily routine. 

Critical Thinking & Creativity with Emoji Stories

1pm-2pm  |  Room 1

Telling stories can be fun and can generate creativity, but Emoji Stories take it to a whole new level. Learn how to use these for teaching and learning to open the door for deeper thinking and innovation in how students demonstrate what they’ve learned. An emoji can tell a story in one image but imagine what can happen with many emojis. They can tell a story and can be used to make you think critically to understand a message all at the same time. Whether you design your own emoji or use a premade one, take advantage of telling stories that engage.

Be Smart from the Start:  Online Safety

3pm-4pm  |  Room 1

Join us to learn ways to help your students (and you) to be SMART from the Start in digital environments. Whether your focus is K-12, higher ed or adult learners, cybersecurity awareness and online safety are critical to the online experience. Let's learn some tips and tricks for being SMART online.