You might think Desmos is just for graphing—but think again. In this hands-on session, you’ll experience Desmos Activity Builder as an instructional tool for creating rich, student-centered learning experiences across content areas. We’ll walk through interactive examples involving reflection, matching, sorting, and student response that build voice, curiosity, and real-time feedback—without grading a single paper. Whether you teach math, science, ELA, or social studies, Desmos can help you design activities that are easy to create, easy to differentiate, and engaging for learners of all levels. You’ll explore student view, the powers of the teacher dashboard, pre-built templates, and a chance to create or modify your own activity!
In the 60 minute sessions educators will learn how to use Google's Teachable machine to train an AI to regonize happy faces and sad faces by making one themselves. This session includes a lesson plan differentiation suggestiosn for all age groups that introduces the concept of proggramming bias.
