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Virtual sessions to transform IB teaching and learning with AI

February 7-9, 2024 | 16:00 - 17:45 AEDT

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MYP | February 8
DP | February 9
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About the PYP Meet-Up

The internet is filling up fast with resources on how AI can transform teaching and learning. However, as PYP educators, and seasoned inquirers, you have deeper, more nuanced questions. 

Does AI truly understand the distinct elements and complexities of the PYP? How can it support PYP teachers in creating meaningful central ideas, conceptual connections, and engaging learning experiences? Where and how can AI seamlessly integrate into the several roles that PYP teams juggle every day?

Join seasoned PYP educators, Cindy Blackburn and Nick Morgan, as they investigate how to thoughtfully and meaningfully integrate AI into the PYP.

Session 1

Speaker: Cindy Blackburn

Join Cindy Blackburn as she investigates how to effectively integrate AI into the PYP and enhance your teaching and learning practices. Take away strategies on using AI as a co-teacher, PD coach, an effective teaching assistant, and more!

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Session 2

Using AI as your ultimate teaching assistant in the PYP

Speaker: Nick Morgan

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Should I be worried or relieved? Is it going to replace or enhance what I love about teaching?

Join Nick Morgan to discover why AI can be your ultimate teaching assistant in 2024. Learn how AI can help you unlock better teaching and learning outcomes, keep staff happy, and ace the PYP.

Join us to:

  • Leverage AI for student-driven exploration within the PYP
  • Get strategies to effectively integrate AI in your classrooms
  • Find out how to generate hundreds of creative ideas and inquiry-based learning experiences with AI
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About the MYP Meet-Up

As MYP educators, your goal is to create learning experiences that connect to the real world, while still meeting IB’s learning standards and practices. Can AI – with its potential for limitless creativity – support you in this crucial aspect of lesson planning? Can it help you write meaningful statements of inquiry and seamlessly integrate ATLs into units? How can you use it to connect your lessons to the MYP core?

Join seasoned MYP educators Andrew Belegrinos, Rachel Bodily, and Nick Morgan to reflect on these questions and investigate how to thoughtfully and meaningfully integrate AI into the MYP.

Session 1

Speakers: Rachel Bodily & Andrew Belegrinos

Explore practical and powerful ways to use ChatGPT to weave inquiry questions into units and create effective prompts for lesson planning. Find out how to utilise AI to easily incorporate ATLs, service as action, interdisciplinary learning, and the learner profile into your units and foster a more engaging classroom environment.

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Session 2

Speaker: Nick Morgan

Join Nick Morgan to learn how you can craft engaging inquiry-based lesson plans and condense extensive assessment data into precise report card comments – all in minutes with AI.

Discover how AI could be your ultimate teaching assistant in 2024; for unlocking better teaching and learning outcomes, for keeping staff happy, and for acing the MYP.

In this session, you will:

  • Understand the AI landscape and its applications for MYP schools
  • Get strategies to effectively integrate AI in your MYP classrooms
  • Find out how to use AI as your personal teaching assistant for everything from lesson planning to report writing
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About the IBDP Meet-Up

From brainstorming authentic lesson plans to designing subject-specific assessments, AI can simplify almost every aspect of the busy IBDP educator’s life. But which specific areas within the IBDP framework can it significantly enhance?

Can you use AI to design lessons that promote inquiry and international-mindedness? How do you use it to design assessments that test for both subject knowledge and skills? Where else can AI provide the most meaningful assistance with the many tasks that IBDP teams juggle every day?

Join experienced IBDP educators Corin Bone, Arnavaz Kollah and Nick Morgan as they investigate these questions and explore meaningful strategies to integrate AI into the IBDP curriculum.

Session 1

Speakers: Corin Bone & Arnavaz Kollah

As IBDP educators, you play a vital role in honing your students’ real-world skills. However, with 6 distinct subject groups and 36 subjects to align with, designing assessments that reflect this goal is no walk in the park!

Join Arnavaz Kollah and Corin Bone to learn how you can use ChatGPT to balance conceptual understanding and skill development in your IBDP assessments. Walk away with meaningful strategies for using AI to keep your students consistently engaged!

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Session 2

Speaker: Nick Morgan

Imagine breezing through paperwork, identifying knowledge gaps, and ensuring student learning goals are met in a fraction of the time. With AI, this is now easier than ever.

Join Nick Morgan to discover why AI can be your community’s sidekick in 2024; for unlocking better teaching and learning outcomes, for keeping staff happy, and for acing the DP.

In this session, you will:

  • Understand the AI landscape and its applications for DP schools
  • Get strategies to effectively integrate AI in your DP classrooms
  • Find out how to use AI as your personal teaching assistant for everything from lesson planning to report writing
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Disclaimer - This event is organised independently of and not endorsed by the IB. Toddle's events are organised to enable exchange of practices and ideas within the educator community and are not a replacement for the IB official workshops. Views and opinions expressed by the speakers are their personal views and should not be construed as official guidance by the IB.

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Cindy Blackburn
Cindy has a Masters of Education in Teacher Leadership and has worked as an PYP educator and coordinator internationally for the past ten years. She currently works as the Director of learning and engagement at Toddle and specializes in developing resources to support teachers and leaders in honing their practice and understandings, to make the PYP simple, actionable, and above all else, joyous.
Nick Morgan
Nick leads Toddle Australia/New Zealand and is located in Melbourne. He joined the Toddle Team after teaching in China, outback Australia and Melbourne. Nick is an experienced facilitator of inquiry-based and experiential learning, both in classrooms and on camps and tours. He is passionate about promoting student wellbeing and witnessing the personal growth that students experience when they step outside their comfort zones. Nick now helps teaching teams across the greater Australia/New Zealand region to make their teaching and learning dreams a reality with Toddle.
Andrew Belegrinos
Andrew Belegrinos is an innovator, educator and technofile, with a special interest in EduTech ecosystems. He is also a software engineer and mathematician, experienced in developing geographic information technology for infrastructure, utility, and environmental sectors. Concurrently serving as a technology coordinator and STEM teacher at Preshil, The Margaret Lyttle Memorial School, Andrew co-founded Nitrogen Education - a web application designed to enhance assessment in computer science. Andrew draws inspiration from the ever-evolving landscape of technology and its ability to amplify the transformative power of education.
Rachel Bodily
Rachel is passionate about the Middle Years Programme and currently works for Toddle as an Associate Director of Learning & Engagement. She most recently taught MYP mathematics and coordinated the Service as Action programme at the International School of Amsterdam. She continues to teach in the form of one-on-one tutoring via her company (mypmathtutor.com) and is an educational technology enthusiast.
Kevin Nielsen
Currently the IB Diploma Coordinator at the Canadian International School, Bangalore. Kevin has been involved with the IB for 20 years across 4 continents, both in the MYP and DP. During his time as an educator, Kevin has held several positions of responsibility for History and TOK. He is also a certified Erickson and Lanning CBCI instructor for concept-based education.
Corin Bone
Corin Bone is Assistant Director Teaching and Learning IBDP at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide. He is an experienced IBDP coordinator, curriculum leader, teacher and examiner who has worked in leading IB schools in Adelaide and Sydney.
Arnavaz Kollah
Before joining Toddle, Arnavaz spent six years teaching IGCSE and IBDP subjects, including Biology, ESS, and TOK, and championing roles as a CAS advisor and EE supervisor. Now, as the Associate Director of Learning and Engagement (DP) at Toddle, she's diving into AI's potential as an educator's ultimate sidekick in streamlining their daily tasks.