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Tuesday, August 26, 2025
Charting a Course Through Information Literacy & Artificial Intelligence
Overview Information literacy is a journey filled with distinct challenges and valuable opportunities. First, we'll identify the main threats: mis-, dis-, and mal-information from several fronts. Then, you will learn how to recognize these and other obstacles that can hinder student learning. Finally, we'll explore solutions, including how to critically approach the modern challenge of AI as both a platform and a tool for inquiry. You will leave with practical strategies and cues to help your students become the heroes of their information quests. To ultimately gain the critical skills needed to navigate our complex digital world and help shape a future based on facts. Note: This event will be recorded and available for later viewing. Presenter Darren HudginsDarren Hudgins the founder and lead of Think Do Thrive. He works with educators, school leaders, districts, and school organizations to help build ‘community of practice’ experiences that promote critical thinking, creativity, and instructional strategies. He believes in crafting engaging experiences where educators can safely practice the skills and mindsets necessary to help empower our social servants. This approach also strengthens human capacity efforts, drives action, and inspires the souls of educators so that all students can thrive. Darren also co-authors two best-selling books on media and information literacy: *Fact Vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News* (ISTE 2018) and *Developing Digital Detectives: Essential Lessons for Discerning Fact from Fiction in the 'Fake News' Era* (ISTE 2021).
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Wednesday, October 1, 2025
The Importance of Student Inquiry in the Age of AI
OVERVIEW Curiosity, questions, wonder - these human qualities serve as powerful drivers of learning in the age of AI. This modern era is changing at a breakneck speed, leaving educators to grapple with how to best prepare learners for their future. In light of that reality, inquiry is one of the human superpowers that will need special attention and cultivation for our current students. This is an era that students will need to hone in on what humans are good at so that they can then engage the technology in relevant and meaningful ways. Reminding us that it is the learning focus first and then the technological connections. The goal is for students to be perpetually learning, questioning and growing throughout this era of rampant change. Using inquiry methods will not only engage students in powerful thinking habits, but can also address student apathy and disengagement. During this session we will work to create a human focused learning environment leveraging the effectiveness of inquiry methods and technology. Specific classroom resources, unit plans and rubric will be shared. Note: This event will be recorded and available for later viewing. PRESENTER Diana LaufenbergFor 16 years Diana Laufenberg was a secondary social studies teacher in Wisconsin, Kansas, Arizona and Pennsylvania. She most recently taught at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, an inquiry-driven, project-based high school focused on modern learning. Her practice has deep roots in experiential education, taking students from the classroom to the real world and back again. Prior to her work in Philadelphia, she was an active member of the teaching community in Flagstaff, AZ where she was named Technology Teacher of the Year for Arizona and a member of the Governor's Master Teacher Corps. Diana was featured on TED.com for her “How to Learn? From Mistakes” and recognized for earning National Board Certification. Her publications include a featured piece on the New York Times Learning blog, co-authoring a chapter in an educational leadership book, and an article in the Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy.  In 2013, Diana Laufenberg partnered with Chris Lehmann to start Inquiry Schools, a non-profit working to create and support student centered learning environments that are inquiry driven, project based and utilizing modern technology. She currently serves as the Executive Director and Lead Teacher for Inquiry Schools. When she is not working, she can be found frolicking in the forests and lakes of Wisconsin. This event will be recorded and shared here the following day.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Purpose-Driven Expertise in an AI World
Overview Our schools are in crisis. The slog of COVID recovery has bled into a youth mental health epidemic, lagging student achievement, and persistent teacher shortages. At the same time artificial intelligence is upending traditional teaching approaches, redefining what is possible, and radically reinventing the economy. Our schools are simply not designed for this new reality. Tweaking the curriculum is not enough. It is time for a complete transformation -- a transformation that empowers learners, connects learning to personal meaning, and fosters real-world impact.    One way to achieve this vision is through Purpose Driven Expertise. Purpose-Driven Expertise is the combination of two powerful ideas – purpose-driven learning and expertise-focused mastery. Each is individually impactful, but together they can create an extraordinary experience of personal growth and impact that a young person will remember for the rest of their lives. Through sustained engagement in these kinds of experiences, youth can set a long-term trajectory of personal fulfillment, civic contribution, and enduring prosperity.   About the Speaker Joseph South is a national educational technology leader, consultant, and international speaker focused on evidence-based learning transformation. He regularly works with education leaders, governments, corporations, non-profits, museums, and learning innovators of every variety to help them realize their vision. Joseph formerly served as the director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education. As a presidential appointee in the Obama Administration, he was an adviser to the Secretary of Education. He developed national educational technology policy, formed public-private partnerships to assist state and local education leaders in transitioning to digital learning, expanded the use of openly licensed educational resources (OER), and worked directly with edtech entrepreneurs, funders, and innovators. Joseph was also a design resident at IDEO where he helped shape The Purpose Project—designed to help young people understand their strengths while developing expertise in something they care deeply about to prototype their purpose. He now helps schools and districts to implement Purpose Driven Expertise, where young people develop expertise aligned to their self-chosen purpose to positively impact their communities.  Joseph currently serves as the Chief Innovation Officer for the International Society for Technology in Education ISTE) and ASCD.
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