EdTech Strategy Sessions

How do educators design flexible classrooms that keep adult learners connected when life gets unpredictable? In this session, Jennifer Hills, Krystal Hills, and Lauren Thatcher share practitioner-tested strategies to maximize existing resources and build responsive flex and HyFlex learning environments. You will explore practical ways to set up accessible spaces, accommodate diverse student needs across any device, and troubleshoot common challenges to drive persistence. Join us to see how thoughtful, teacher-led design turns flexibility into lasting learner engagement and retention.

This session is sponsored by EnGen.

Every AI prompt draws on energy, water, and other people’s creative work. This session gives educators two practical lenses for talking about both. Jon Ippolito, creator of the What Uses More? calculator, shows how a paragraph of AI text, an AI image, or an hour of Netflix compare in energy and water use, and shares strategies that help learners reason through these estimates. Shanna Hollich of Creative Commons then explains the role of open licenses in the AI era, and what that means for the open resources educators create, share, and remix every day.

This session is sponsored by Northstar Digital Literacy, a program of Literacy Minnesota.