OKCTE Fall Conference
Friday, October 24, 2025
Oklahoma City, OK
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The OKCTE fall conference was held on Friday, October 24, 2025, in Oklahoma City at the MetroTech Springlake campus from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Educators from around the state convened to dream boldly with technology.
Below, view our photo carousel from the conference and read the breakout session descriptions. Explore the keynote slideshow and other resources from Kristen Ziemke on her webpage. |
Keynote Speaker: Kristin Ziemke, co-author of Read the World: Rethinking Literacy for Empathy and Action in a Digital Age
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Breakout Sessions
Bringing Stories to Life: Story Acting in the Early Childhood Classroom
In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the power of story acting—a joyful, literacy-rich practice where children's words are honored and transformed into collaborative dramatic play. Rooted in the work of Vivian Paley, story acting supports language development, creativity, and classroom community by giving young learners a platform to share their stories and see them brought to life by peers. Educators will learn practical strategies for guiding children through the storytelling and acting process, building listening skills, empathy, and narrative understanding along the way. Audience takeaways include: understanding the educational value and developmental benefits of story acting, learning how to structure and facilitate story acting sessions in the classroom, gaining tools for encouraging student voice, creativity, and collaboration, and discovering ways to integrate story acting into daily routines and curriculum.
Building a Community of Readers: AI-Enhanced Digital Book Talks with QR Codes Across Campus
This interactive workshop will explore how to foster a vibrant, schoolwide reading culture by combining AI tools with QR-code-based publishing. Participants will learn how to guide students in creating AI-enhanced digital book talks—multimedia compositions that blend literary analysis, voice, and visual storytelling—and then share them through QR codes placed across the school building. I will share a successful 7th grade project in which students used AI tools to create dynamic posters and video teasers that invited peers and teachers into their reading experiences. The session will address strategies for scaffolding digital storytelling, promoting authentic student voice, building community through public displays of student work, and embedding media literacy and ethical AI use into instruction. Participants will leave with adaptable resources and ideas to bring the walls of their school alive with books.
Choice Reading For All: How to Incorporate Choice Reading your Classroom
Teachers will walk away with ideas of how to use choice reading within their classrooms and lists of books that could help teachers create classroom libraries - no matter what subject they teach! Teachers will also walkaway with a lesson plan called "Independent Reading with a Mission". This presentation can have a large audience - most classes should include some kind of literacy in them - therefore most teachers will find this activity useful. Learning outcomes include: Students will be able interact with a choice novel or selection with a mission in mind. Students will be able to select a Golden Line within a choice text and discuss with peers why this quote stood out to them.
Coding in the ELA Classroom
“[You] should be in charge of the tech that controls your life” (Aloe Blacc). While I do not believe everyone needs to learn to code, “Hour of Code” is still popular and coding can be a tool to connect more types of learners to ELA. There are also many parallels between coding concepts and ELA. Furthermore, because we need to stop isolating into subject matter “silos,” coding can also be an amazing way to bring cross-curricular learning and infuse STEM into your classroom. This session will help teachers from 4th-12th implement coding into existing curriculum and/or generate ideas for new lessons—even if coding seems like an alien world to you. We will address OAS and ISTE standards, and participants should bring a device to the workshop.
Gamifying Your ELA Classroom
This workshop session will offer several options for ELA teachers to delve into the world of game-based learning. Participants will have several opportunities to play with 1 or more of those options to create a lesson or generate an idea they can immediately implement in their classrooms. They will also be granted access to the many other resources I have gathered to share in the ed tech class I taught for preservice teachers at OU. The session will also draw on possible applicable OAS and ISTE standards to aid teachers in planning. Finally, as time allows, we will discuss some considerations when utilizing this type of learning, such as competition—Do there need to be “winners” and “losers” in learning? And, do we always have to impose time constraints on learning? Participants should bring a device to the workshop.
GenAI Tools in Secondary ELA
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) websites provide opportunities for secondary ELA teachers and students to play with language. In this practical session, participants will read a sample syllabus statement about GenAI and adapt it for their classroom. Working in small groups, participants will discuss and sort GenAI literacies into groups for middle school, high school, and college students. Participants will apply a GenAI acceptable use rating scale to one of their writing assignments. The session will conclude with an overview of a student GenAI disclosure template along with examples. Participants will leave this session with practical tools to navigate GenAI in their English classrooms.
Hear Their Story: Crafting Multimodal Narratives with Wordless Books & ChatterPix
This interactive workshop, designed for elementary educators, will explore an innovative approach to fostering student engagement and literacy development through the use of ChatterPix. It will demonstrate how wordless picture books leverage the diverse linguistic landscapes of our classrooms, and how the Chatterpix application transforms static images into dynamic, multimodal publications, bringing student-created stories to life and giving voice through recorded narration. Wordless picture books provide an accessible entry point for all learners, allowing students to construct and express their own narratives through a multimodal publication. By experiencing this interactive workshop, attendees will gain practical strategies to integrate cutting-edge technology into their literacy instruction, explore further options with generative AI, cultivate student agency, differentiate learning for diverse abilities, and foster digital citizenship while producing compelling, student-led multimedia compositions.
In Remembrance Of...
This interactive workshop introduces a creative, emotionally engaging approach to character analysis through a short writing assignment and presenting of eulogies. Participants will explore how eulogies can deepen students' understanding of literary characters, point of view, and theme by writing from the perspective of someone close to a character who has "died." The session includes a brief tutorial on eulogy structure, ideas for setting an immersive classroom atmosphere, and strategies for helping students "dress the part" to embody their speaker. Attendees will receive stem sentences and scaffolds to support student writing and will draft a sample eulogy using a character from a familiar text. By the end of the session, educators will be equipped to implement this powerful writing activity their ELA classroom to foster empathy, engagement, and literary insight.
Infographics in Action: Teaching Informative Writing Through Multimodal Methods
In this interactive session, participants will explore how to use infographics as a powerful tool for teaching informative writing in the science classroom. Attendees will analyze short, factual science articles to identify key ideas, extract data, and summarize information. Then, using digital tools such as Canva or Google Drawings, they will design infographics that communicate complex content clearly and visually. The session will highlight strategies for scaffolding the process for middle school learners, including English language learners and students with diverse needs. Participants will leave with templates, example rubrics, and ready-to-use classroom resources. This hands-on workshop is ideal for teachers looking to integrate writing, data analysis, and visual literacy in a way that engages students and builds 21st-century communication skills.
Learning in Action
Learning is an action; it's not stagnant. Using technology falls into that same category. Students should be producers and not just consumers of technology. They need to be up and moving around, interacting with a text, collaborating with their classmates, and forging something new from what they have learned. Use the talents, career choices, and interests of your students for building curriculum and improving literacy skills. This session focuses on how to meld technology with ELA instruction to help enhance engagement and learning outcomes. Be ready to get up and move around and participate in hands-on learning. Participants will learn strategies and assignments that will help students put their learning into action. "Be the spark that will light the fire of learning."
Leveraging AI-Enhanced Literature Reviews to Build Pre-service Teachers' Capacity for Contemporary Issues in Education
This presentation explores a pedagogical approach that combines AI-assisted research methods with literature review assignments to develop pre-service teachers' understanding of contemporary issues in education. The project aims to enhance students' ability to develop 21st Century literacy skills and synthesize scholarly literature while developing their critical consciousness in their field. In this session, participants will be able to:
Oklahoma Writing Project: Teachers Teaching Teachers
In this workshop led by Oklahoma Writing Project Teacher Consultants, participants will experience some of the strategies that the OWP Summer Institute engages in in greater depth: quickwrites, author's chairs, writing groups. All exemplar strategies are geared to strengthen the teaching of writing, which includes teachers growing as writers themselves.
Poetry Through the Eyes of Time: Engaging Test Prep with Primary Sources and Creative Composition
This session will showcase Poetry Through the Eyes of Time, a versatile, standards-aligned project that combines close reading, writing, media literacy, and historical inquiry through the use of Library of Congress primary source sets. Designed to engage students in deeper thinking and preparation for standardized assessments, this project prompts students to analyze primary documents, synthesize historical context with literary elements, and compose original poems and reflective analyses. Participants will explore how this model supports multiple ELA standards, including summary to demonstrate comprehension, citing evidence, analyzing themes and author’s craft, and writing for varied purposes. The session will include sample student work, adaptable resources, and strategies for using digital archives and technology to enrich instruction and deepen student engagement — all while preparing students for high-stakes testing through authentic learning.
Preventing Nightmares with Technology: Promoting Empathy and Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Technology in teaching has many benefits, but when misused it can become problematic on several levels. However, when implemented constructively, technology enhances learning and the overall education experience. As students engage with the ever-advancing modes of technology, they need to know how to use it as a means of solving problems and promoting creativity. Therefore, this panel discusses critical thinking and empathy while providing practical lessons, strategies, and hands-on activities to help educators cultivate these concepts in ways that demonstrate the responsible and effective use of technology in classrooms. We will present lessons on utilizing AI in narrative writing with a focus on empathy, and one on critical thinking and how to teach students to scrutinize information for its veracity. The third lesson will present techniques for creating a classroom wiki to promote empathy and create a shared knowledge base.
Put the Action Into Research to Improve Practice
This session will invite participants into considering action research projects in their classrooms. Action research is geared to generating data that measures the effectiveness of teaching strategies. With the classroom the setting of the research, action research centers teachers, and the research is immediately applicable to their classroom setting. Participants will leave with a research design they can utilize in their classroom that will include using technology to collect data, audio and video. Samples will include action research projects on improving peer-response groups, student-generated questions to increase engagement in discussions, and how implementing student choice in literature curriculum increases buy-in
RetroReport Videos Promote Inquiry and Research
RetroReports is often thought of as being for social studies, but there are many resources for the English teacher, too. We will look through the site and explore the ELA-aligned lesson plans provided, including extension activities.
Surviving to Thriving: The Impact of Self-Care Against Burnout
While teacher retention rates are low, teacher shortages are high. Teacher burnout being a main reason why educators are fleeing and decreasing, as a first-year teacher, I researched and implemented the possible solution of prioritizing self-care. Based on preliminary research, literature, and my auto-ethnography study, I analyzed burnout, the external factors that contribute to it, and the feasibility of teacher-based self-care. I hypothesized that a combination of four to five self-care practices can help reverse the effects of and combat burnout. Over the month of March, 2025, I completed a rotating self-care routine. I used the app "Habit" where I set weekly goals, tracked daily moods, and wrote memo logs. My main finding was: Since burnout itself is a snowball of temporary stressors, self-care cannot positively intervene once a teacher is at their breaking point. However, self-care can mitigate temporary stressors and thus act as a preventative for burnout.
Teaching with Primary Source Visual & Multimodal Texts
Currently, humanities teachers are working in classrooms in which (1) visual texts are highly accessible, especially digitally; (2) there is increasing scrutiny of classroom teachers’ decisions associated with instructional materials; and (3) decreasing opportunities for classroom-focused professional development. Our workshop will engage colleagues in navigating instructional decisions when selecting and curating primary source, visual/multimodal texts for classroom use. How do we select images for our ELA classrooms? What do we do with visual texts within a lesson? How do we expect students to use (e.g., both consume and create) visual/multimodal texts? Our session will actively engage participants in a visual thinking strategy (i.e., VTS) activity and then “unpack” the activity for the purposes of reflective critical discussion. We will invite teachers to share their uses of multimodal primary source texts in their classroom contexts, and explore their knowledge about, interests in, and abilities to select, create, and curate visual texts for classroom use.
The Dangers of Bread: Teaching Media Literacy
“[B]efore learners attempt to learn how to read and write they need to read and write the world. They need to comprehend the world that involves talk about the world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987). With the increasing proliferation of “fake news” and “deep fakes” and an over-reliance of AI at all ages, how do students know how to read and write about their world—especially if they do not know who and what to trust? How do we “talk about the world” to guide students toward becoming more critically literate about more than the printed word? Additionally, how do we address OAS Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies? And how to we teach students to actively, rather than passively, consume and produce media. This session will attempt to provide teachers with tools/ideas they can immediately implement in their classrooms and teach to students. Participants should bring a device to the workshop.
Verses & Voices: Exploring AI as a Poetic Partner in the Classroom
Step into the future of creative writing in this engaging session that explores how artificial intelligence can become a powerful poetic partner in the classroom. Discover hands-on strategies for guiding students to use AI tools not just as shortcuts, but as collaborators in the art of verse. We'll delve into ways to spark imagination, encourage critical thinking, and deepen literary understanding through AI-assisted poetry writing. Whether you're tech-savvy or just curious, this session offers practical insights, ethical considerations, and classroom-ready ideas to inspire the next generation of digital poets.
In this interactive workshop, participants will explore the power of story acting—a joyful, literacy-rich practice where children's words are honored and transformed into collaborative dramatic play. Rooted in the work of Vivian Paley, story acting supports language development, creativity, and classroom community by giving young learners a platform to share their stories and see them brought to life by peers. Educators will learn practical strategies for guiding children through the storytelling and acting process, building listening skills, empathy, and narrative understanding along the way. Audience takeaways include: understanding the educational value and developmental benefits of story acting, learning how to structure and facilitate story acting sessions in the classroom, gaining tools for encouraging student voice, creativity, and collaboration, and discovering ways to integrate story acting into daily routines and curriculum.
Building a Community of Readers: AI-Enhanced Digital Book Talks with QR Codes Across Campus
This interactive workshop will explore how to foster a vibrant, schoolwide reading culture by combining AI tools with QR-code-based publishing. Participants will learn how to guide students in creating AI-enhanced digital book talks—multimedia compositions that blend literary analysis, voice, and visual storytelling—and then share them through QR codes placed across the school building. I will share a successful 7th grade project in which students used AI tools to create dynamic posters and video teasers that invited peers and teachers into their reading experiences. The session will address strategies for scaffolding digital storytelling, promoting authentic student voice, building community through public displays of student work, and embedding media literacy and ethical AI use into instruction. Participants will leave with adaptable resources and ideas to bring the walls of their school alive with books.
Choice Reading For All: How to Incorporate Choice Reading your Classroom
Teachers will walk away with ideas of how to use choice reading within their classrooms and lists of books that could help teachers create classroom libraries - no matter what subject they teach! Teachers will also walkaway with a lesson plan called "Independent Reading with a Mission". This presentation can have a large audience - most classes should include some kind of literacy in them - therefore most teachers will find this activity useful. Learning outcomes include: Students will be able interact with a choice novel or selection with a mission in mind. Students will be able to select a Golden Line within a choice text and discuss with peers why this quote stood out to them.
Coding in the ELA Classroom
“[You] should be in charge of the tech that controls your life” (Aloe Blacc). While I do not believe everyone needs to learn to code, “Hour of Code” is still popular and coding can be a tool to connect more types of learners to ELA. There are also many parallels between coding concepts and ELA. Furthermore, because we need to stop isolating into subject matter “silos,” coding can also be an amazing way to bring cross-curricular learning and infuse STEM into your classroom. This session will help teachers from 4th-12th implement coding into existing curriculum and/or generate ideas for new lessons—even if coding seems like an alien world to you. We will address OAS and ISTE standards, and participants should bring a device to the workshop.
Gamifying Your ELA Classroom
This workshop session will offer several options for ELA teachers to delve into the world of game-based learning. Participants will have several opportunities to play with 1 or more of those options to create a lesson or generate an idea they can immediately implement in their classrooms. They will also be granted access to the many other resources I have gathered to share in the ed tech class I taught for preservice teachers at OU. The session will also draw on possible applicable OAS and ISTE standards to aid teachers in planning. Finally, as time allows, we will discuss some considerations when utilizing this type of learning, such as competition—Do there need to be “winners” and “losers” in learning? And, do we always have to impose time constraints on learning? Participants should bring a device to the workshop.
GenAI Tools in Secondary ELA
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) websites provide opportunities for secondary ELA teachers and students to play with language. In this practical session, participants will read a sample syllabus statement about GenAI and adapt it for their classroom. Working in small groups, participants will discuss and sort GenAI literacies into groups for middle school, high school, and college students. Participants will apply a GenAI acceptable use rating scale to one of their writing assignments. The session will conclude with an overview of a student GenAI disclosure template along with examples. Participants will leave this session with practical tools to navigate GenAI in their English classrooms.
Hear Their Story: Crafting Multimodal Narratives with Wordless Books & ChatterPix
This interactive workshop, designed for elementary educators, will explore an innovative approach to fostering student engagement and literacy development through the use of ChatterPix. It will demonstrate how wordless picture books leverage the diverse linguistic landscapes of our classrooms, and how the Chatterpix application transforms static images into dynamic, multimodal publications, bringing student-created stories to life and giving voice through recorded narration. Wordless picture books provide an accessible entry point for all learners, allowing students to construct and express their own narratives through a multimodal publication. By experiencing this interactive workshop, attendees will gain practical strategies to integrate cutting-edge technology into their literacy instruction, explore further options with generative AI, cultivate student agency, differentiate learning for diverse abilities, and foster digital citizenship while producing compelling, student-led multimedia compositions.
In Remembrance Of...
This interactive workshop introduces a creative, emotionally engaging approach to character analysis through a short writing assignment and presenting of eulogies. Participants will explore how eulogies can deepen students' understanding of literary characters, point of view, and theme by writing from the perspective of someone close to a character who has "died." The session includes a brief tutorial on eulogy structure, ideas for setting an immersive classroom atmosphere, and strategies for helping students "dress the part" to embody their speaker. Attendees will receive stem sentences and scaffolds to support student writing and will draft a sample eulogy using a character from a familiar text. By the end of the session, educators will be equipped to implement this powerful writing activity their ELA classroom to foster empathy, engagement, and literary insight.
Infographics in Action: Teaching Informative Writing Through Multimodal Methods
In this interactive session, participants will explore how to use infographics as a powerful tool for teaching informative writing in the science classroom. Attendees will analyze short, factual science articles to identify key ideas, extract data, and summarize information. Then, using digital tools such as Canva or Google Drawings, they will design infographics that communicate complex content clearly and visually. The session will highlight strategies for scaffolding the process for middle school learners, including English language learners and students with diverse needs. Participants will leave with templates, example rubrics, and ready-to-use classroom resources. This hands-on workshop is ideal for teachers looking to integrate writing, data analysis, and visual literacy in a way that engages students and builds 21st-century communication skills.
Learning in Action
Learning is an action; it's not stagnant. Using technology falls into that same category. Students should be producers and not just consumers of technology. They need to be up and moving around, interacting with a text, collaborating with their classmates, and forging something new from what they have learned. Use the talents, career choices, and interests of your students for building curriculum and improving literacy skills. This session focuses on how to meld technology with ELA instruction to help enhance engagement and learning outcomes. Be ready to get up and move around and participate in hands-on learning. Participants will learn strategies and assignments that will help students put their learning into action. "Be the spark that will light the fire of learning."
Leveraging AI-Enhanced Literature Reviews to Build Pre-service Teachers' Capacity for Contemporary Issues in Education
This presentation explores a pedagogical approach that combines AI-assisted research methods with literature review assignments to develop pre-service teachers' understanding of contemporary issues in education. The project aims to enhance students' ability to develop 21st Century literacy skills and synthesize scholarly literature while developing their critical consciousness in their field. In this session, participants will be able to:
- Examine a framework for integrating AI-assisted literature reviews into pre-service teacher preparation
- Analyze the impact of AI-enhanced research on students' engagement with equity-focused educational scholarship
- Explore strategies for scaffolding critical reflection on AI's role in educational research
- Consider implications for developing future educators into educational advocates
- Student surveys on research confidence and equity awareness from literature reviews
- Analysis of student reflections on AI integration
Oklahoma Writing Project: Teachers Teaching Teachers
In this workshop led by Oklahoma Writing Project Teacher Consultants, participants will experience some of the strategies that the OWP Summer Institute engages in in greater depth: quickwrites, author's chairs, writing groups. All exemplar strategies are geared to strengthen the teaching of writing, which includes teachers growing as writers themselves.
Poetry Through the Eyes of Time: Engaging Test Prep with Primary Sources and Creative Composition
This session will showcase Poetry Through the Eyes of Time, a versatile, standards-aligned project that combines close reading, writing, media literacy, and historical inquiry through the use of Library of Congress primary source sets. Designed to engage students in deeper thinking and preparation for standardized assessments, this project prompts students to analyze primary documents, synthesize historical context with literary elements, and compose original poems and reflective analyses. Participants will explore how this model supports multiple ELA standards, including summary to demonstrate comprehension, citing evidence, analyzing themes and author’s craft, and writing for varied purposes. The session will include sample student work, adaptable resources, and strategies for using digital archives and technology to enrich instruction and deepen student engagement — all while preparing students for high-stakes testing through authentic learning.
Preventing Nightmares with Technology: Promoting Empathy and Critical Thinking in the Classroom
Technology in teaching has many benefits, but when misused it can become problematic on several levels. However, when implemented constructively, technology enhances learning and the overall education experience. As students engage with the ever-advancing modes of technology, they need to know how to use it as a means of solving problems and promoting creativity. Therefore, this panel discusses critical thinking and empathy while providing practical lessons, strategies, and hands-on activities to help educators cultivate these concepts in ways that demonstrate the responsible and effective use of technology in classrooms. We will present lessons on utilizing AI in narrative writing with a focus on empathy, and one on critical thinking and how to teach students to scrutinize information for its veracity. The third lesson will present techniques for creating a classroom wiki to promote empathy and create a shared knowledge base.
Put the Action Into Research to Improve Practice
This session will invite participants into considering action research projects in their classrooms. Action research is geared to generating data that measures the effectiveness of teaching strategies. With the classroom the setting of the research, action research centers teachers, and the research is immediately applicable to their classroom setting. Participants will leave with a research design they can utilize in their classroom that will include using technology to collect data, audio and video. Samples will include action research projects on improving peer-response groups, student-generated questions to increase engagement in discussions, and how implementing student choice in literature curriculum increases buy-in
RetroReport Videos Promote Inquiry and Research
RetroReports is often thought of as being for social studies, but there are many resources for the English teacher, too. We will look through the site and explore the ELA-aligned lesson plans provided, including extension activities.
Surviving to Thriving: The Impact of Self-Care Against Burnout
While teacher retention rates are low, teacher shortages are high. Teacher burnout being a main reason why educators are fleeing and decreasing, as a first-year teacher, I researched and implemented the possible solution of prioritizing self-care. Based on preliminary research, literature, and my auto-ethnography study, I analyzed burnout, the external factors that contribute to it, and the feasibility of teacher-based self-care. I hypothesized that a combination of four to five self-care practices can help reverse the effects of and combat burnout. Over the month of March, 2025, I completed a rotating self-care routine. I used the app "Habit" where I set weekly goals, tracked daily moods, and wrote memo logs. My main finding was: Since burnout itself is a snowball of temporary stressors, self-care cannot positively intervene once a teacher is at their breaking point. However, self-care can mitigate temporary stressors and thus act as a preventative for burnout.
Teaching with Primary Source Visual & Multimodal Texts
Currently, humanities teachers are working in classrooms in which (1) visual texts are highly accessible, especially digitally; (2) there is increasing scrutiny of classroom teachers’ decisions associated with instructional materials; and (3) decreasing opportunities for classroom-focused professional development. Our workshop will engage colleagues in navigating instructional decisions when selecting and curating primary source, visual/multimodal texts for classroom use. How do we select images for our ELA classrooms? What do we do with visual texts within a lesson? How do we expect students to use (e.g., both consume and create) visual/multimodal texts? Our session will actively engage participants in a visual thinking strategy (i.e., VTS) activity and then “unpack” the activity for the purposes of reflective critical discussion. We will invite teachers to share their uses of multimodal primary source texts in their classroom contexts, and explore their knowledge about, interests in, and abilities to select, create, and curate visual texts for classroom use.
The Dangers of Bread: Teaching Media Literacy
“[B]efore learners attempt to learn how to read and write they need to read and write the world. They need to comprehend the world that involves talk about the world” (Freire & Macedo, 1987). With the increasing proliferation of “fake news” and “deep fakes” and an over-reliance of AI at all ages, how do students know how to read and write about their world—especially if they do not know who and what to trust? How do we “talk about the world” to guide students toward becoming more critically literate about more than the printed word? Additionally, how do we address OAS Standard 7: Multimodal Literacies? And how to we teach students to actively, rather than passively, consume and produce media. This session will attempt to provide teachers with tools/ideas they can immediately implement in their classrooms and teach to students. Participants should bring a device to the workshop.
Verses & Voices: Exploring AI as a Poetic Partner in the Classroom
Step into the future of creative writing in this engaging session that explores how artificial intelligence can become a powerful poetic partner in the classroom. Discover hands-on strategies for guiding students to use AI tools not just as shortcuts, but as collaborators in the art of verse. We'll delve into ways to spark imagination, encourage critical thinking, and deepen literary understanding through AI-assisted poetry writing. Whether you're tech-savvy or just curious, this session offers practical insights, ethical considerations, and classroom-ready ideas to inspire the next generation of digital poets.