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Exploring Pedagogy and AI in Education

From Rules to Buy-In: How to Co-Create AI Guidelines Students Will Actually Use

Your students are already using AI. Most AI policies are written for classrooms rather than with them. This hands-on workshop takes a different approach. Using a research-backed board game developed at the University of Toronto, you’ll experience firsthand how dialogue and play can surface honest conversations about AI, bring every voice into the room, and turn them into guidelines people actually believe in. In one session, you’ll move from abstract debate to concrete guidelines. You’ll leave with a practical process you can run with your own teachers, students, and colleagues, and a clearer sense of what it takes to build a culture of responsible AI use that sticks. Come ready to talk, play, and build.

Beyond Groupwork: Building Real Collaboration

Putting students in groups doesn’t automatically lead to true collaboration. This session explores how to move beyond basic group work to create an environment where students will ask peers for help, build on the ideas of others, and create artifacts that would not be possible without each other. This session will include strategies including pair programming, dynamic group roles, and process-focused team activities to create a classroom environment of real collaboration.

Logic Puzzles, Technical Drawing, Financial Literacy and Data Analysis

How can simple unplugged activities engage students in problem solving across ICD2O, TAS1O/TAS2O, and ICS3U/ICS4U? I’ll share how I use printable Binary puzzles (also known as Bineros) as collaborative entry tickets, beginning with an easy 8×8 grid to teach solving strategies before progressing to increasingly complex challenges including “hard” and “very hard” levels of 18×18 puzzles composed of embedded grids. These activities develop logical reasoning, independence, and collaboration while helping students settle into focused work they genuinely enjoy.

I’ll also introduce a geometric star activity for TAS1O/TAS2O that connects art, design, precision, and mathematics. Students practise drawing accurately with a ruler, learn to identify and correct their own mistakes, and see their work improve as they progress.

At the end, I’ll walk participants through Ontario Science Centre ICD2O resources developed in collaboration with other ACSE members, focusing on financial literacy and data analysis. Participants will leave with ready-to-photocopy classroom materials and practical ideas they can adapt for their own technology and computer science courses.