Concurrent Session I: 8:40 AM – 9:40 AM, ET (60 minutes)
This session will explore practical and ethical uses of artificial intelligence through a "traffic light" framework that helps educators distinguish between acceptable AI use, AI use that requires attribution, and uses that cross the line into academic dishonesty. This is something that I have created for use in my own classroom. In addition, the workshop will highlight creative classroom applications of AI that support learning while preserving student voice and originality. A central focus of the presentation will be metacognition and the importance of helping students understand how they learn. I will share examples of reflective metacognitive letters used in my own classroom and discuss strategies for ensuring that AI enhances rather than replaces human thinking, creativity, and self-awareness.
Target Audience: Educators serving students in all grades, K-12
- Workshop 1: Red Light, Yellow Light, Green Light: Navigating AI Use in the Classroom
By Sandra Mangarella, Union High School, New Jersey
This session will explore practical and ethical uses of artificial intelligence through a "traffic light" framework that helps educators distinguish between acceptable AI use, AI use that requires attribution, and uses that cross the line into academic dishonesty. This is something that I have created for use in my own classroom. In addition, the workshop will highlight creative classroom applications of AI that support learning while preserving student voice and originality. A central focus of the presentation will be metacognition and the importance of helping students understand how they learn. I will share examples of reflective metacognitive letters used in my own classroom and discuss strategies for ensuring that AI enhances rather than replaces human thinking, creativity, and self-awareness.
Target Audience: Educators serving students in all grades, K-12
- Workshop 2: Using Scite.ai to Build Evidence Literacy & Responsible AI Habits in Grades 7–12
By Amanda Rodrigues, Empowertunity LLC and Western Governors University
Artificial intelligence can generate polished and confident answers in seconds, but students still need to determine whether those answers are accurate, credible, relevant, and appropriately supported. This interactive workshop introduces grades 7–12 educators to Scite.ai, an AI-supported research platform that helps users locate scholarly evidence and examine how research has been supported, contrasted, or mentioned by later publications.
Target Audience: Educators serving students in grades 7–12, including classroom teachers, librarians, instructional coaches, special educators, multilingual learner specialists, school leaders, and educational technology staff.
- Workshop 3: ChatGPT as Co-Grader: Evaluating AI-Assisted Assessment in Graduate Education
By Laura Zieger, Chris Shamburg, and Dana Mason, Kean University
As generative artificial intelligence becomes deeply embedded in educational practice, faculty and institutions face a pressing question: can AI tools such as ChatGPT support assessment without displacing the professional judgment, ethical responsibility, and disciplinary knowledge that define meaningful evaluation? This study investigates that question directly by examining the use of ChatGPT as an AI-assisted co-grader of graduate student assignments. It examines how ChatGPT generated scores and feedback compare with three faculty raters using the same prompts and rubrics.
Target Audience: Educators serving students in all grades, K-12 and higher education
