SWWC IT² 2026

Artificial Intelligence is reshaping education at a pace never seen before, unlocking new possibilities for personalized learning, accelerating teacher productivity, and transforming how students engage with content. But with this innovation comes a new set of challenges: safeguarding students in an AI powered world, ensuring responsible use, and maintaining visibility across increasingly complex digital ecosystems. In this session, we will explore how AI is fundamentally changing the instructional landscape and why modern security platforms must evolve just as quickly. Attendees will gain a clear understanding of how iboss has embraced advanced AI technologies to deliver real time protection, intelligent content filtering, and deep visibility that empower districts to stay ahead of emerging risks.You’ll see how AI driven security can enhance, not hinder, teaching and learning by enabling safe access to dynamic digital resources, supporting innovative instructional models, and giving educators confidence to explore new tools without compromising student safety. This session will highlight practical examples, K–12 specific use cases, and actionable insights that technology leaders can bring back to their districts immediately.This conversation will illuminate how AI can be both a catalyst for transformation and a guardian of student well being, when paired with the right platform.

Target audience identified by presenter: All Conference Attendees

Don't Start With the App. Too often, technology integration starts with a tool: What can we do with this app? This session flips that approach. Instead, educators will start by identifying the cognitive action they want from students—retrieving, predicting, explaining, comparing, organizing, discussing, or applying—and then choose technology that strengthens that thinking. Using practical classroom examples and activities from the Spark-Wire-Fire framework (https://crushschool.com/spark-wire-fire-framework), participants will see how the same tool can either produce digital busywork or create a more engaging, memorable, and meaningful learning experience depending on how the task is designed. We will examine common technology-based assignments, identify what students are actually being asked to think about, and redesign them around stronger learning processes. Participants will leave with a simple planning framework they can use with any app or platform: learning goal → cognitive action → activity → technology. The result is technology integration driven by learning, not by the latest tool.

Target audience identified by presenter: Technology Leadership;Technology Integration

Tech-Rich Doesn't Always Mean Learning-Rich. Putting an assignment on a screen does not automatically make it better instruction. In this interactive session, participants will experience the difference between technology that simply digitizes traditional classroom work and technology that actually improves how students think, engage, remember, and apply learning. Using the new AI-powered Snorkl digital canvas (snorkl.app) alongside classroom-tested activities from my Spark-Wire-Fire framework (https://crushschool.com/spark-wire-fire-framework), we will take traditional instructional tasks and redesign them using principles from cognitive science and active learning. Participants will see how small changes—such as adding prediction, retrieval, explanation, comparison, and application—can turn passive digital tasks into meaningful learning experiences. Rather than focusing on the latest app or tool, this session gives educators a practical way to evaluate technology by asking a more important question: How is this technology actually making students think about and process the concepts they are learning? Participants will leave with adaptable strategies they can use across subjects, grade levels, and technology platforms.

Target audience identified by presenter: Technology Integration;Technology Leadership