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Paul Cancellieri

Scientist turned science teacher and author who uses humor, pedagogical expertise, engaging presentations, and hand-on activities to help teachers and students maximize learning and fun.

An EdTech-Informed Classroom Teacher

Paul has spent more than two decades developing techniques for integrating technology (especially AI tools) into classroom instruction. He can help your teachers enhance learning through student-centered feedback and grading strategies and purposeful use of AI.


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I came to this training, full of questions and concerns, but I left it feeling like AI will give me the solutions I need for the concerns I have about equipping my students to be ethical, effective, digital citizens capable of thriving in a busy, changing workplace.

The best workshop I have attended and acquired a knowledge base that I can actually use in my classroom. Loved the process and the learning style used.


This was great and well worth my time. This is a class that should be mandatory for every teacher. Everyone needs to adapt whether they like it or not.


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[The view from the Media Room at CASLV-Cadence]Navigating the potential benefits and harms of AI use (by teachers, but also by students) can be challenging. When I work with diverse groups of teachers, I often need to cater the message to the grade level band of the teachers. This helps teachers see the potential support for their own specific needs, while challenging existing assumptions about learning. Last month I had the good fortune to work with a large groups of K-12 teachers at Coral Academy of Science - Las Vegas that fit this description. The ran the gamut from kindergarten teachers all the way up to high school teachers. They had been "told" about AI tools earlier in the summer, but only about half of the faculty was actively using tools to help them teach better. Knowing this history, I worked with the administration to design two different learning paths. In the morning, I spent time with the primary teachers exploring the ways that AI chatbots can help them use more of the research-backed strategies that they know about, but rarely get to use. We ended the session with time to build out resources with AI support. The feedback was very positive. The afternoon session was designed to help secondary teachers create structures and process in their classroom that foster a positive culture around AI use by students. Rather than listening to me talk, most of our time was spent discussing teacher values about cheating and relevance. The variety of perspectives among this group of educators was AMAZING and the conversation was very productive. It was clear that the Age of AI will require a big change in how we create assignments and how we shift the focus to process over product. And I walked away with some new ideas for being flexible when presentations evolve into discussions. I plan to use these new strategies when I head to Oklahoma, Arizona, and Georgia this month.
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