Artificial intelligence is reshaping how students write, learn, and share ideas. For teachers, that brings both exciting opportunities and serious challenges.
This interactive online workshop gives you practical strategies, classroom activities, and clear guardrails for using AI with student writing. You’ll leave with resources you can implement immediately, plus a vision for preparing students for the future of writing in a world where AI is everywhere.
🍽️ Catered lunch included! 🍽️
🎁 BONUS: Access to a recorded video version of the workshop (at a later date)!
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What you’ll learn in this workshop:
- How to create AI-powered writing prompts, strategies, and resources that save time and inspire better student work.
- Ways AI can support (not replace) student thinking in brainstorming, outlining, drafting, revising, and publishing.
- How to help students build AI literacy through quick, “by-the-way” lessons that don’t require computer science expertise.
- Approaches for differentiation and accessibility so struggling writers get support and advanced writers are pushed to the next level.
- Activities that let students explore voice, style, and audience across genres and media.
- How to talk about ethics, integrity, and intellectual property with your students — including co-creating classroom norms.
This workshop blends hands-on practice with big-picture discussions. You’ll try out activities like Spot the Bot, Be the Bot, Debate Bots, and spectrum exercises you can take straight to your classroom.
You’ll leave with:
✅ Ready-to-use classroom activities and lesson ideas
✅ Templates and reflection prompts for students
✅ Frameworks for ethical and responsible AI use in writing
✅ Confidence to guide your students in balancing human creativity and AI support
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Who This Workshop Is For
- K-12 teachers of writing (ELA, social studies, science, and beyond)
- Instructional coaches, curriculum leaders, and administrators
- Anyone supporting student writing who wants practical tools, not just theory
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About the Presenter
Matt Miller is a classroom teacher, speaker, and author of Ditch That Textbook and AI for Educators. He has trained thousands of teachers worldwide on using technology to empower students and has become a leading voice in AI literacy for K-12 education. Matt brings practical classroom experience, fresh ideas, and an engaging, down-to-earth style that helps educators feel both confident and inspired.
