Free and Built for Educators: Meet Claude for Teachers
Anthropic recently rolled out a free version of Claude built specifically for K-12 educators. It's standards-aligned, skill-equipped, and ready to use. In this quick session, we'll take a live look at what it can do, how it differs from the Claude you may already know, and whether it's worth adding to your toolkit.
In this quick thirty minute session, you will learn how to turn your ideas into real, working apps. The best part is you need absolutely zero tech skills. We will walk through how to simply chat with AI to create interactive learning games, study tools, or classroom trackers that fit your exact needs. If you can type a text message, you can build an app. Come learn how to bring your ideas to life without writing a single line of actual code!
Layering for Learning: Using AI to Build Knowledge Before Reading
Students cannot comprehend what they do not know. In this interactive session, participants will explore how AI tools such as Gemini Notebook can transform a single complex text into a multimodal knowledge-building experience. Grounded in learning science, this approach strategically layers podcasts, videos, visuals, discussion prompts, and other resources to build background knowledge before reading. Using an authentic classroom example, participants will experience an AI-supported text set, analyze how each modality supports comprehension, and examine the design process behind its creation. Participants will leave with a practical framework for creating AI-supported text sets that increase access to complex texts while maintaining grade-level rigor.
