Date
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Time
1:15 PM - 2:05 PM
Location Name
RL 22
Name
Inclusive Innovation: UDL and AI Tools for Student-Centered Learning
Description
Most "AI for differentiation" sessions hand you a prompt and call it done. This one goes further.
Drawing on practice from a school where half of students are multilingual learners or have disabilities, this session uses the Essential 5 Cs — Clickable, Choice, Curation, Collaboration, Connection — as a structured lens for redesigning lessons with AI. Participants work with Gemini as a thought partner to generate leveled texts, visual scaffolds, and sentence frames across ELA, Math, and Science.
But the bigger shift is this: AI moves students from consumption to creation. We explore what that looks like in classrooms that serve every learner, not just the ones who already thrive.
Participants redesign a real lesson live during the session — not as homework — and leave with something ready to use Monday, grounded in UDL 3.0 and the 5 Cs.
Speakers
Session Type
Traditional Workshop
Track
AI in the Classroom
Secondary Track
Assistive Technology/Inclusive Tech
Primary Audience
Elementary School
Secondary Audience
Special Educators
Fall Conference Strands
Inspire
MA DLCS Strands
Computing and Society, Digital Tools and Collaboration