IETA 2023

Go beyond digital citizenship by helping even the youngest students understand key fundamentals of cybersecurity. Cyber.org is a free K-12 curriculum designed to help teachers and students build skills and knowledge to prepare them for high-tech success. In this session, participants will create their free cyber.org account and explore resources relevant to their grade level.

Do you have students asking for a coding club but you don’t feel qualified to lead one? Want to provide
your students with the opportunity to learn coding but feel underqualified? Well, with ‘Coding in
Minecraft’ by Prodigy Learning, you can lead a coding club without having any coding experience. Plus,
your club will be both engaging and immersive because your students will be learning within the game
of Minecraft: Education Edition. Come learn how you can create an amazing student-led club where you
students can learn to code in Blocks, JavaScript, or Python and be rewarded for their work along the way
with certificates and digital badges.

Information literacy checklists are CRAAP and aren't very useful in our current information landscape. When articles and social media posts are designed to trigger an emotional response, how do we teach students and adults what reliable information looks like? This session will discuss a new approach to practicing information literacy.

Introduce a little chaos (theory) in your computer science or gen-ed Classroom! In this session, you will walk away with a ready-to-use activity for your students 6-12. This activity blends plugged and unplugged elements that will engage every learner. Students will be exposed to concepts such as measurement, critical thinking, computer science (CS), and chaos theory. The goal of this session is to get educators in any capacity excited about CS concepts and give them the confidence to know that they can teach the fundamentals of CS without having to be an expert. More information about professional development opportunities related to CS and specific curriculum and courses available will be provided.

G Suite updates constantly to better meet the needs of teachers and students, and it can be a lot to keep up with! Join Erin Downey for a rapid-fire session of 30 tips, tricks, and tools to streamline your daily workflow, increase student engagement, and keep up with the latest new tools!

We can’t wait to show you everything you can do in your classroom with Canva, a FREE graphic design tool. In this session we’ll show you how we use Canva in our schools, and how you create professional looking newsletter, presentations, social media posts, and classroom materials. You can even use Canva with your students as a creative tool for projects and assessments. It’s free, easy and fun to use!

Are you looking for an engaging and immersive curriculum to teach your students to code?  Have you
always wanted to utilize game-based learning but didn’t feel you had enough gaming experience? Do
you want students to be able to validate their skills with credentials? With ‘Coding in Minecraft’ by
Prodigy Learning, you don’t have to be a gaming or coding expert! In this session you will learn how
‘Coding in Minecraft’ creates a student-led, highly engaging learning experience where the educator
becomes the facilitator, and the students lead their own learning to learn how to code in Blocks,
JavaScript or Python. Students gain credentials by proving the skills they have learned in coding by
undertaking assessments in the game. You will see how our immersive curriculum and credential
pathway has all the resources you need to teach your students how to code.

In 2020, the COVID pandemic and remote workforce overnight led to a huge paradigm shift on how we should view risk management, cybersecurity, and identity and access management. In this session, hear how Victoriano Casas, former CISO, led the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation agency through these major cybersecurity landscape changes. By being well prepared with adoption of MFA and endpoints protected by CrowdStrike’s advanced cloud-native platform. In 2023, CISOs and CIOs will look at the MITRE ATT&CK framework and see “valid accounts” as the largest threat - come learn how you can protect your data with the click of a button and gain peace of mind. Together, we stop breaches.

Reading Progress and Reading Coach in Microsoft Teams is changing the way schools improve reading fluency and analyze data at all levels, PK-12. Explore how these tools can show notable improvement for beginning readers, as well as some of our most vulnerable populations, including English learners, students with dyslexia, and those with learning differences. See why educators are scrambling to trade in traditional, time-consuming running records for the automated calculation of learners’ independent, video recorded readings. Reading Progress and Reading Coach provide the repetition and streamlined data needed to build learners’ skills and confidence with individualized learning opportunities. Join us to dive into the basics of implementation in your school or classroom, and then go further with rich collaboration and innovative strategies for fostering an environment that embraces reading, brings equity and inclusion to the forefront, and saves teachers’ valuable time.

Ignite the fire of learning for students and explore the benefits of using Minecraft EDU in  your classroom. Minecraft can be a powerful tool in the classroom to engage students in learning subject content as well as other skills such as perseverance, cooperation and empathy.  Join us as we explore ideas for first lessons, uncover hints for managing worlds in Minecraft and discover where to find resources that can be used to start you on your journey of mining the mountain of learning available with Minecraft EDU.