Get ready to ignite your CTE classroom with cutting-edge AI tools that let students dive into hands-on, creative, and mind-bending activities! In this session, you’ll explore how SchoolAI Spaces give students the power to think critically, problem-solve in real time, and tackle exciting, industry-relevant challenges. Discover how AI can transform your classroom into a hub of innovation, where students are not just learning but creating the future with tools that enhance their skills and prepare them for the future.
This presentation focuses on empowering students to take control of their own success through effective goal-setting. We'll discuss how students can create personalized, actionable goals that align with our course standards and their passions and ambitions. Learn practical techniques for setting, tracking, and achieving objectives, while developing the mindset needed to overcome challenges. Whether the aim is academic improvement, personal development, or future career plans, this session will provide inspiration for student's to drive success that aligns with your course objectives.
Last year after the AP test, I held an Uno Programming Competition based on Stephan Davis' Nifty Assignment- http://nifty.stanford.edu/2012/davies-uno/
Looking for a quick and easy solution to Web Development? Come hear about my experience using Skill Struck for my Web Development course. Learn what works, what doesn't and how it's helped me keep my students engaged and excited about HTML and CSS.
BMED Teacher at Salem Hills High School, Nebo School District
Do you hate reinventing the wheel every semester? Me too! I love to share resources with new and existing teachers. Let's help each other out! Feel free to connect with me any time! I have been a member of three CTE divisions at different times (Business & Marketing, Skills... Read More →
As Artificial Intelligence continues to grow and become a bigger part of our day-to-day as teachers and students, it is time for us as educators to re-evaluate how we assess student learning. In this session we will discuss some of the opportunities and challenges of AI along with some innovative approaches to assessment that will help you as a teacher know what levels of mastery your students have actually reached.
Skill Struck is dedicated to delivering customizable K-12 computer science and AI solutions that promote equitable learning. Our rigorous curriculum spans from foundational coding skills to advanced programming languages, offering students instant feedback and personalized hints to... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am MST
DHHS D219
I start each semester with all my classes building a personal website to archive all their course work in my classes. Generally there are many students that take several of my courses and the website helps them and me keep the projects organized. This is also a good way for the students to archive other course material for future school or job applications.
Students are most invested in curriculum and projects when they have a voice and choice in their project topic and parameters. As part of my programming course and game development course curriculum, my students pitch project ideas, vote on them and then produce the winning projects in teams. Additionally, my programming students provide real-world problems to be used as part of final term projects. By advocating for student choice in projects across 7 semesters and with hundreds of different students, I have refined and created a very streamlined pitching, voting and project decision process. I will be highlighting this process, giving advice on potential challenges, and opening up a discussion as to how this could be applied/brought into my audience's classroom.
Elizabeth has a BS in Computer Science from BYU. She has been teaching Computer Science and Game Development courses in Davis School District high schools for 4 years. She has helped to successfully publish 7 student games on the Epic Games Store. She is passionate about increasing... Read More →
The focus is on understanding what AI is, how the line between AI and people is blurring, the history of AI leading to present-day applications at work, school and home, then I conclude with the ethical considerations that AI presents and what we can do to encourage students to pursue a path in a computer science education. It's fun and engaging with students and teachers.
Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City has developed a Cosmic Creator Challenge to combine student-created digital media, student choice, and space science education. This session will describe the results of this contest and how digital media teachers can work within academic subjects to encourage student creativity, engagement, and deeper learning. Students create their own media projects using three dimensions of choice: choice of topic, choice of design medium, and choice of approach.
Saturday February 1, 2025 8:00am - 8:45am MST
DHHS D220
As Artificial Intelligence continues to grow and become a bigger part of our day-to-day as teachers and students, it is time for us as educators to re-evaluate how we assess student learning. In this session we will discuss some of the opportunities and challenges of AI along with some innovative approaches to assessment that will help you as a teacher know what levels of mastery your students have actually reached.
Skill Struck is dedicated to delivering customizable K-12 computer science and AI solutions that promote equitable learning. Our rigorous curriculum spans from foundational coding skills to advanced programming languages, offering students instant feedback and personalized hints to... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am MST
DHHS D219
Using CompTIA and TestOut's curriculum you can certify students to become Ethical Hackers by passing the TestOut Certification Test and the ECH Test. Students can then immediately begin working for companies that want to make sure they have secure websites.
I start each semester with all my classes building a personal website to archive all their course work in my classes. Generally there are many students that take several of my courses and the website helps them and me keep the projects organized. This is also a good way for the students to archive other course material for future school or job applications.
Students are most invested in curriculum and projects when they have a voice and choice in their project topic and parameters. As part of my programming course and game development course curriculum, my students pitch project ideas, vote on them and then produce the winning projects in teams. Additionally, my programming students provide real-world problems to be used as part of final term projects. By advocating for student choice in projects across 7 semesters and with hundreds of different students, I have refined and created a very streamlined pitching, voting and project decision process. I will be highlighting this process, giving advice on potential challenges, and opening up a discussion as to how this could be applied/brought into my audience's classroom.
Elizabeth has a BS in Computer Science from BYU. She has been teaching Computer Science and Game Development courses in Davis School District high schools for 4 years. She has helped to successfully publish 7 student games on the Epic Games Store. She is passionate about increasing... Read More →
Clark Planetarium in Salt Lake City has developed a Cosmic Creator Challenge to combine student-created digital media, student choice, and space science education. This session will describe the results of this contest and how digital media teachers can work within academic subjects to encourage student creativity, engagement, and deeper learning. Students create their own media projects using three dimensions of choice: choice of topic, choice of design medium, and choice of approach.
Saturday February 1, 2025 9:00am - 9:45am MST
DHHS D220
AI has a long history of great promises and disappointments. Come for a delightful and highly unique approach to understanding of where AI has been and what it might be now. We'll delve into history and let each of you try chat tools from the past. We'll examine the promises made by each tool, and discuss its shortcomings. We can use the experience to help us understand where AI is today. This is an entirely a non-technical but very fun presenation.
I am a professional software engineer turned full time secondary educator in computer science. After 28 years working as a software engineer, I started teaching just four years ago. I started at Beehive Science and Technology Academy in Sandy, and taught the past two years at Lone... Read More →
Web Development Instructor/CTE Coordinator, Jordan School District
Melinda Mansouri is creative, innovative, and goal-oriented. She enjoys design work and solving problems using technology. She has been teaching for 28 years for Jordan School District. Melinda has been teaching in CTE for the last 17 years in the subject areas of Digital Media, Game... Read More →
Saturday February 1, 2025 10:00am - 10:45am MST
DHHS D219
For total beginners. This is an early introduction into 3D modelling and texture editing using Blender. You will create a 2D Minecraft self-portrait, then apply it onto a cube using the free and powerful software Blender.
Using CompTIA and TestOut's curriculum you can certify students to become Ethical Hackers by passing the TestOut Certification Test and the ECH Test. Students can then immediately begin working for companies that want to make sure they have secure websites.
This session will cover basic tools that can help ELL Student succeed in your classes. We’ll cover common ELL misconceptions, how to use AI to help you translate and adapt lessons/skills for ELL students, and how to generate subtitles in other languages for tutorials you may have.
AI has a long history of great promises and disappointments. Come for a delightful and highly unique approach to understanding of where AI has been and what it might be now. We'll delve into history and let each of you try chat tools from the past. We'll examine the promises made by each tool, and discuss its shortcomings. We can use the experience to help us understand where AI is today. This is an entirely a non-technical but very fun presenation.
I am a professional software engineer turned full time secondary educator in computer science. After 28 years working as a software engineer, I started teaching just four years ago. I started at Beehive Science and Technology Academy in Sandy, and taught the past two years at Lone... Read More →
This is an Critical Thinking Encryption lesson geared for Middle School Students. It could easily be fitted to a high school class too. The best part is it is scalable!!! You can teach it to 5 kids or 50 kids and have it vary in difficulty. Typically I have the class surrender all cell phones - this freaks my Jr. High Students right out. Then as every student is watching, I talk about encryption, what it means, why it is important, how it relates to cybersecurity, I place all the cell phones into my large lockable box and close no less than 6 locks around the box. In order to get back into the box, the students must work together to decrypt distributed riddles. Once the riddles are decrypted them must solve the riddles. The answers to the riddles are the codes or words that unlock each lock.(almost always they are coordinating cybersecurity vocabulary words) After each group unlocks their locks, they can retrieve their cell phone.
Keep Web Development students engaged with coding battles! Contests only take a few minutes but let you review key concepts without the students realizing they are reviewing. See a demonstration and then have time to create some of your own. Bring a device that you can use to type code.
For total beginners. This is an early introduction into 3D modelling and texture editing using Blender. You will create a 2D Minecraft self-portrait, then apply it onto a cube using the free and powerful software Blender.
This is an Critical Thinking Encryption lesson geared for Middle School Students. It could easily be fitted to a high school class too. The best part is it is scalable!!! You can teach it to 5 kids or 50 kids and have it vary in difficulty. Typically I have the class surrender all cell phones - this freaks my Jr. High Students right out. Then as every student is watching, I talk about encryption, what it means, why it is important, how it relates to cybersecurity, I place all the cell phones into my large lockable box and close no less than 6 locks around the box. In order to get back into the box, the students must work together to decrypt distributed riddles. Once the riddles are decrypted them must solve the riddles. The answers to the riddles are the codes or words that unlock each lock.(almost always they are coordinating cybersecurity vocabulary words) After each group unlocks their locks, they can retrieve their cell phone.
With the rise of online threats and the increasing significance of technology in our lives, cybersecurity education has become more vital than ever before. Join us as we highlight the CYBER.ORG Virtual Range to teach engaging lessons and labs while exploring the methods of various cybersecurity related events. These cybersecurity events will be demonstrated by CYBER.ORG staff and performed by attendees within the CYBER.ORG Range. Methods used to mitigate attacks will be discussed as well. Participants will receive an introduction to the curricula, explore tools used by security researchers, and step through cyberattacks against a target system on the cyber range. U.S. K-12 Educators will gain free access to the curriculum from CYBER.ORG as well as access to the CYBER.ORG Range to use in their classrooms. Participants will leave the session with the tools and resources needed to teach cybersecurity concepts at many grade levels.
Keep Web Development students engaged with coding battles! Contests only take a few minutes but let you review key concepts without the students realizing they are reviewing. See a demonstration and then have time to create some of your own. Bring a device that you can use to type code.
