Practical AI Integration for Educators

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Practical AI Integration for Educators

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

Overview

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.

A huge thank you to you Steve (workshop facilitator) 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

Joanne Wynn, High School Principal, Canadian International School Phnom Penh

Joanne WynnHigh School Principal, Canadian International School Phnom Penh

Enjoyable and informative workshop. It covered a wide range of issues regarding implementation of AI in a school context. Good to share ideas with others who are in a similar position regarding AI implementation in school.

This was extremely helpful for our school as ideas and resources provided spanned across grade levels. I appreciated the ability to have work-time to explore and connect with other educators during the workshop as well.

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

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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.

Time	Session Title	Focus
9:00–10:15	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.
10:15–10:30	Break
10:30–12:00	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.
12:00–1:00	Lunch
1:00–2:00	Redesigning Assessment for Integrity	Apply a systematic four-stage framework for creating AI-aware assessments that genuinely measure student understanding while maintaining academic integrity.
2:00–2:15	Break
2:15–3:15	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.
3:15–4:00	Strategic Planning- Defining Next Steps	In 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.

Date and Time
April 10, 2026
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

Venue
Conference Venue: Yokohama International School

Investment

Early Bird – January 30, 2026
$225 (Workshop Only)
$550 (Workshop + AIFE Conference (33% discount for conference)

Regular – March 6, 2026
$250 (Workshop Only)
$625 (Workshop + AIFE Conference (33% discount for conference)

Last Minute
$350 (Workshop Only)
$775 (Workshop + AIFE Conference (33% discount for conference)

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Facilitator: Ben Sheridan

Ben Sheridan
Elementary Principal, The American School of Kinshasa & Director of Learning for 407 Learning

Ben Sheridan has been a proud educator for 18 years. He has taught in international schools in Thailand, India, Cambodia, Korea, and Indonesia. Ben has worked as a classroom teacher, learning innovation coach, technology coordinator, instructional designer, university lecturer, and consultant. Ben is passionate about using sound pedagogy together with innovative technology to accelerate learning. He feels technology can be leveraged to enhance literacy, increase student motivation and engagement, and empower students to take control of their learning. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership with a focus on professional learning.

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Practical AI Integration for Educators

Practical AI Integration for Educators

Facilitator: Ben Sheridan