I recently had the privilege of keynoting the Heart of Innovation Conference for Heartland Are Education Agency in Iowa. Their conference centers on using technology in the classroom and ways to build up our competency as educators so that we can work with students more effectively. My keynote, “Starting, Exploring” looks at technology as a starting point for building connections in our educational communities and how we can build competency in ourselves towards a better tomorrow for education. Check out the slides and resources below:

Photography is an amazing gateway for students to express their ideas on a variety of topics both in the photo and in the process. In this playground session, come learn how to make a cinemagraph and gifs using Adobe Creative Cloud. We will also explore content area possibilities for using photography, particularly cinemagraphs and gifs, as choice-based projects.

Creating and building breakout rooms continues to be an innovative process in classrooms. However, finding starting points and developing an appropriate curriculum can be difficult. This session solves that problem by providing appropriate and scalable ways you can engage students with escape rooms.

Over the course of ISTE Live 2023, I will be adding resources, ideas, social media posts, and more to this Wakelet Collection. It will be organized by when I attend sessions from the beginning of the conference to the end.

If you are presenting or come across an amazing resource that you would like to share (with permission), please feel free to email me at matt@teacherwinters.net and I will get it added to this collection. Thanks!

There are many entry points to understanding artificial intelligence and sharing it with your students, but one some of the best ways to explore AI are right in your Chromebook. Through an exploration of Google Arts & Culture, Applied Digital Skills, and Practice Sets educators and students alike can experience AI and start to build their skills with engaging practice and thoughtful collaboration with AI. We will explore fun starter points with Google Arts & Culture experiments and games that help learners explore AI in tangible engaging ways. In order to help facilitate deeper learning in our students we will explore some Applied Digital Skills lessons and some possibilities for student-created AI-infused artifacts. Finally, we will explore the possibilities for AI as a learning partner in Practice Sets and how that can support personalized and competency-based learning goals for educators.