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  • Practical AI Integration for Educators

    Empowering Educators with Knowledge, Skills, and Confidence to Harness AI Effectively

Empowering Educators with Knowledge, Skills, and Confidence to Harness AI Effectively

This hands-on workshop equips participants with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to harness AI effectively. Designed to support educators to guide both colleagues and learners, this experience focuses on practical approaches to AI integration that enhance teaching and learning.

We’ll be exploring workflows and approaches that are applicable and transferable across all of the major Gen-AI tools e.g. Google Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude. Engaging in interactive activities, to collaboratively create AI prompts, workflows, and resources tailored to their context. Activities will cater to all experience levels to support educators at all stages of their AI journey. They will also redesign assessments, testing existing tasks with AI to rebuild them for measuring creativity, problem-solving, and deeper thinking.

This experience aims to build collective expertise, fostering confident leaders ready to guide colleagues and students in using AI thoughtfully and effectively within their schools.

12 March 2026
Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Center
9:00 am – 4:00 pm  

Price
$275USD (Workshop Only)
$720USD (Workshop + 21CLHK Conference (20% discount for main conference)

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  • Understanding AI with Critical Purpose

    Move beyond the hype to understand what AI actually is, how it works, and why it matters for education. This  session establishes the critical literacy and ethical frameworks that will guide all your AI integration decisions.

  • Practical Application: Tools, Resource Design & Efficiency

    Hands-on exploration of approved, privacy-safe AI tools (e.g., Canva, Gemini). Using AI for efficiency in resource design. Discussion on ethical boundaries, transparency, and the limits of AI detectors.

  • Redesigning Assessment for Integrity

    Apply a systematic four-stage framework for creating AI-aware assessments that genuinely measure student understanding while maintaining academic integrity

  • Advanced Application: Prompting, Assessment Design & Custom Tools

    Take your skills to the next level by mastering advanced prompting techniques, completing your assessment redesign, and creating custom AI tools that solve your specific professional challenges

  • Collaborative Implementation: Co-Creating School-Wide AI Guidance

    Work collaboratively to translate everything you’ve learned into practical, implementable guidance that will shape AI use across your school. Use the custom AI tools you’ve learned about to rapidly generate draft guidance documents tailored to your institutional context.

“A huge thank you to you Steve for leading us with care, commitment and expertise. Each step of the journey was well orchestrated and set us all up to feel more capacity and more excitement. Thank you! We hope to see you again”

“It was the perfect balance between learning and doing. Very clear instructions, slides and prompts. It was great, thank you!”

“I’m pretty good with AI, but this showed me how I could take my skills to the next level and how to support other teachers”

TimeSession TitleFocus
9:00–10:15Understanding AI with Critical PurposeMove beyond the hype to understand what AI actually is, how it works, and why it matters for education. This session establishes the critical literacy and ethical frameworks that will guide all your AI integration decisions.
10:30–12:00Practical Application: Tools, Resource Design & EfficiencyHands-on exploration of approved, privacy-safe AI tools (e.g., Canva, Gemini). Using AI for efficiency in resource design. Discussion on ethical boundaries, transparency, and the limits of AI detectors.
12:00–1:00Lunch
13:00–14:00Redesigning Assessment for IntegrityApply a systematic four-stage framework for creating AI-aware assessments that genuinely measure student understanding while maintaining academic integrity.
14:15–15:15Advanced Application: Prompting, Assessment Design & Custom Tools
Take your skills to the next level by mastering advanced prompting techniques, completing your assessment redesign, and creating custom AI tools that solve your specific professional challenges.
15:15–16:00Strategic Planning- Defining Next StepsIn this final session, you’ll create a simple, shareable strategic plan to take back to your school, team, or classroom. Your plan will help communicate your goals, align your community, and drive meaningful action. This focused roadmap will support decision-making, promote accountability, and increase the impact of your work with AI in education.

Facilitator

Dr. Jessica Hale

International educator and leadership mentor

Steve Jackman

Senior Consultant, 407 Learning