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8:00am CDT

Anticipating Change, Preparing for Uncertainty: The Future of AI in Schools

Friday June 6, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am CDT

If nothing else has become clear in the three years since ChatGPT emerged, it’s that generative AI is a long-term, strategic opportunity and challenge for schools, not a short-term technological one. The pace of AI’s evolution, the number of issues it raises, and the power of its emotional and pedagogical impact have made it incredibly difficult not just to make decisions about AI in the present, but to know which possibilities to embrace and which pitfalls to avoid. How do we become more open to, more proactive about, and more prepared for the possibilities that come with deep change? This session is designed to help educators anticipate an AI future, even if we can’t predict it. We’ll consider the current state of the technology, look at some case studies, and practice strategic foresight exercises.

Keynote Speakers

Eric Hudson

Facilitator & Strategic Advisor, Eric Hudson Consulting

Eric Hudson is a facilitator and strategic advisor who supports schools in making sense of what’s changing in education. He specializes in learner-centered assessment, human-centered leadership, and strategic program design. Most recently, Eric spent ten years at Global Online Academy... Read More →

Friday June 6, 2025 8:00am - 9:00am CDT
Brauer Auditorium

Keynote

9:15am CDT

Engaging Students on Generative AI: What, Why, How

Friday June 6, 2025 9:15am - 11:30am CDT

Making healthy, ethical decisions about AI is a skill our students need, now and in the future. In this session, we’ll explore decision-making as a teachable, relevant skill that can engage students in productive, open conversation about generative AI. We’ll begin by looking at what we know (and don’t know) about generative AI’s impact on student learning and wellness at school and in life. Then, we’ll explore the relationship between decision-making and autonomy, look at the research on student agency, and consider a variety of pathways for engaging students on AI in the classroom and beyond. We’ll practice using games, case studies, and generative thinking exercises as tools, and we’ll draft plans for how we can be proactive with student engagement and education in the 2025-26 school year.

Keynote Speakers

Eric Hudson

Facilitator & Strategic Advisor, Eric Hudson Consulting

Friday June 6, 2025 9:15am - 11:30am CDT

1:45pm CDT

Designing and Facilitating Assessments for Students Agency

Friday June 6, 2025 1:45pm - 4:00pm CDT

Learner-centered assessment is not just about what we ask students to do; it’s about how we facilitate the assessment to support their sense of ownership and self-efficacy. In this session we’ll practice designing for three pillars: goal-setting, empowering processes, and authentic assessment of learning. We’ll learn and practice teaching strategies in each area that position students as active collaborators who exercise the core competencies that support agency like generative thinking, self-regulation, project management, and reflection. We’ll explore how to use the tools of learner-centered assessment (rubrics, portfolios, conferences, etc.) to elevate student voice and to guide students to do the hard but meaningful work of navigating complexity and embracing challenging work. Participants will then have a chance to reimagine one of their existing assessments in order to prioritize student agency.

Keynote Speakers

Eric Hudson

Facilitator & Strategic Advisor, Eric Hudson Consulting

Friday June 6, 2025 1:45pm - 4:00pm CDT

From $180.00

STLinSTL 2025

From $180.00