Date
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time
1:15 PM - 2:05 PM
Location Name
Educator Playground (G-P Atrium)
Name
From Phone to Classroom Tool: Building Web Apps with Gemini
Description
Most AI professional development assumes teachers have a laptop, an IT department, and a coding background. This session removes all three. Participants will use Google Gemini on their phone/tablet (or computer, if they wish) to design, prompt, and ship a functional classroom web app that solves a real problem they bring with them. Examples: a vocabulary practice tool, a differentiation prompt builder, a parent communication generator, an exit ticket. No code. No laptop. No vendor. This matters for two reasons. First, the teacher closest to the problem builds the solution. Second, when the build path runs through a phone, the equity argument changes. Every teacher with a phone and a data plan can now build classroom tools. The hardware gap stops being a capability gap. Participants leave with three things: a working web app they built on their phone, a reusable prompting pattern, and a framework for deciding when to build versus buy. Bring your phone. Leave with a tool you made.
Speakers
Session Type
Educator Playground
Track
AI in the Classroom
Secondary Track
Professional Development
Primary Audience
Middle/High School
Secondary Audience
Leaders
Fall Conference Strands
Inspire
MA DLCS Strands
Computing and Society, Digital Tools and Collaboration, Computational Thinking