ISTELive 22

For more than four decades, the ISTE conference has been recognized as one of the world’s most influential education events. It’s where educators and education leaders gather to engage in hands-on learning, share best practices and hear from the brightest minds from the world of education and beyond.

This year, ISTELive 22 will be a hybrid event featuring powerful voices and offering a treasure trove of content and resources for attendees in New Orleans and those attending virtually around the world.

Promethean is a Silver Sponsor of this event – come see us in Booth #1430! We will have an exciting lineup of sessions, fun giveaways, and activities that you will not want to miss.

Featured Speakers

ISTE 2022 session timetable

	Monday 27	Tuesday 28	Wednesday 29
8:30 – 9:00		RAFTing in the River of VR – Molly-Armine Holston	Game on: Gamify your instruction with Promethean!  – Erin Kenny
9:00 – 9:30		Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser	SEL with Technology: Teaching Our Students to Work Together Again – Lacy Dasch
9:30 – 10:00		App Smashing with the ActivPanel – Daniel Thompson	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser
10:00 – 10:30		Love is Lost: Promthean’s Escape Room Experience – Lindsay Johnson/Anna Tressler	Love is Lost: Promthean’s Escape Room Experience – Lindsay Johnson/Anna Tressler
10:30 – 11:00		Game on: Gamify your instruction with Promethean!  – Erin Kenny	PDF to Panel: Ditch the Paper! – Anna Tressler
11:00 – 11:30		Upgrade Your Go-To Lessons – Nichole Brumfield	RAFTing in the River of VR – Molly-Armine Holston
11:30 – 12:00	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser	SEL with Technology: Teaching Our Students to Work Together Again – Lacy Dasch	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser
12:00 – 12:30	Love is Lost: Promethean’s Escape Room Experience – Lindsay Johnson/Anna Tressler	Love is Lost: Promthean’s Escape Room Experience – Lindsay Johnson/Anna Tressler	Love is Lost: Promthean’s Escape Room Experience – Lindsay Johnson/Anna Tressler
12:30 – 1:00	App Smashing with the ActivPasnel – Daniel Thompson	Bolstering Student Engagement & Mastery with Classflow – Daniel Thompson	Gamify Your SEL Curriculum: Build Empathy and Connection With Education Technology – Elyse Langer
1:00 – 1:30	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser	DLB GIVEAWAY – Paul/Anna “Quick Check – Check Up” – Freshen Up Formative Assessments with ClassFlow – Hollee Ellis
1:30 – 2:00	Create Fun Activities Instantly & Easily Using ActivInspire – Michelle Farque	PDF to Panel: Ditch the Paper! – Anna Tressler	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser
2:00 – 2:30	Show Me the Research! Efficacy of AI Assistant in Classrooms	Using an AI Assistant to Save Time in Classroom Teaching	Bringing AI & Voice Automation to Teacher Workflows
2:30 – 3:00	Bolstering Student Engagement & Mastery with Classflow – Daniel Thompson	Upgrade Your Go-To Lessons – Nichole Brumfield
3:00 – 3:30	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser	Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9- Paul Naser
3:30 – 4:00	Gamify Your SEL Curriculum: Build Empathy and Connection With Education Technology – Elyse Langer	App Smashing with the ActivPasnel – Daniel Thompson
4:00 – 4:30	Love is Lost: Promthean’s Escape Room Experience – Lindsay Johnson/Anna Tressler	Create Fun Activities Instantly & Easily Using ActivInspire – Michelle Farque
4:30 – 5:00	Upgrade Your Go-To Lessons – Nichole Brumfield	Game on: Gamify your instruction with Promethean!  – Erin Kenny
5:00 – 5:30	RAFTing in the River of VR – Molly-Armine Holston	PANEL GIVEAWAY! Paul Naser/Anna

ISTE 2022 session descriptions

Session Title	Session Description
Bolstering Student Engagement & Mastery with Classflow	At the Ron Clark Academy student engagement is paramount – join this session as we demonstrate how you can use ClassFlow with your students for maximum student engagement. See how polling through ClassFlow allows your students to be a part of every discussion and decision in your classroom.
App Smashing with ActivPanel	Join us to learn how teaching is done at the Ron Clark Academy using the Promethean ActivPanel and its amazing capabilities. Using the Promethean app suite and various websites come see how you can pull together a lesson that engages students and makes teaching easy and fun!
Create Fun Activities Instantly & Easily Using ActivInspire	Promethean Activinspire Dashboard has 10 activities to choose from and customize to your needs. Save your own activities, reuse, share, engage your students with ease. Something for all content areas and all grade levels.
Upgrade Your Go-To Lessons	Dry Erase boards and worksheets are some of our favorite things, but are they really effective in this day and age? If you are really trying to get your students engaged in your material then maybe you should interact with them on their technology level. I want to show you the Activities app on your Promethean Panel and how to find some amazing premade resources, then let’s get creative and use the Promethean Whiteboard app to do a scavenger hunt!
Learning Transformed with ActivPanel 9	Join Promethean experts for an amazing introduction to Promethean’s newest product, ActivPanel 9. Come experience all the new features we are providing to make teaching and learning simple, adaptable, secure and connected on ActivPanel 9. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn about the latest and greatest Promethean has to offer and experience how we are transforming learning in your classroom.
SEL with Technology: Teaching Our Students to Work Together Again	Students spent a long time at home and came back to school unsure of how to socialize and work together to reach a common goal. The only way to get them back in the habit is to give them the opportunity to practice in a safe space. In this session, participants will play games that can be applied to any subject, at any level. They will observe how to facilitate and differentiate and then leave with digital templates to help them get started with creating their own games.
Gamify Your SEL Curriculum: Build Empathy and Connection With Education Technology	Have you wanted to inspire more kindness, compassion, and communication within your classroom community? Are you looking for a lively and engaging way to do it? Join Promethean as we teach you how to gamify your Social Emotional Learning (SEL) curriculum with captivating, cooperative, and effective activities/games that you can integrate into your classroom routines right away! With the help of our interactive ActivPanel, you will learn tips and tricks to help your students get to know each other better, practice empathy, and enjoy themselves while doing it. Social Emotional skills are more important than ever as students are learning how to engage with each other in a post-pandemic school environment. Let’s make that process fun!
PDF to Panel: Ditch the Paper	Taking a basic lesson plan and enhane it using the Promethean app suite. This session will demonstrate how to take a basic lesson that involves worksheets and tangible clocks and create a complete virtual lesson with the Promethean built in app suite. Attendees will learn how to save time and prep work while also incorporating technology into their lesson. Change the way you lesson plan!
RAFTing in the River of VR	Grab your life jacket and your ore as we explore the ways that virtual reality headsets can be leveraged to create a dynamic, cross curricular opportunity that the whole class can experience.  This session will dive into the ways the Oculus VR headset can be leveraged and integrated in collaboration with the Promethean ActivPanel.  It will incorporate Classroom Essential Apps including, Spinner, Timer, Whiteboard, Annotate, Capture, and Screen Share.  In this session, participants will walk away with a model for taking any core content area VR experience and applying the RAFT model for writers workshop.
Love is Lost: Promthean’s Escape Room Experience	Hosted by Promethean’s Professional Development team, the Promethean Escape Room experience challenges attendees with a series of puzzles and riddles. The goal? Escaping the room before time runs out. Attendees can expect to work as a group to solve puzzles on Promethean’s immersive classroom solutions, including the ActivPanel. Can you solve the puzzle that leads to another puzzle and not get lost along the way? We hope you can because there will be a daily prize given to the fastest completion time!
“Quick Check – Check Up” – Freshen Up Formative Assessments with ClassFlow	Searching for unique and innovative strategies for formative assessment that will drive effective conversation and provide valuable data. Promethean’s ClassFlow can offer all of the above and more for effective assessments! Through interactive polls and varied activities, this free, web-based lesson delivery platform will engage your students, while archiving responses as measurable data for teacher and administrative analysis. Join Hollee Ellis, Promethean Education Consultant, for a check up on your quick check formative assessments.
Game on : Gamify your instruction with Promethean!	Get students engaged in content like never before! Get ready to embark on virtual field trips, sink battle ships and go on a scavenger hunt all from your ActivPanel. Using Promethean’s lesson delivery software ActivInspire, you can create lessons that get students out of their seats and make learning interactive. Using tools such as drag a copy, magic revealer and multimedia elements, students can experience learning in a fun and exciting way. Incorporate Promethean Apps such as the spinner and timer to add another layer of excitement to lessons and watch as students fall in love with learning.
Bringing AI & Voice Automation to Teacher Workflows	Teachers, have you ever dreamed of the day you could launch a Pear Deck without all those clicks? What about sharing content to Google Classroom without having to copy & paste links? Imagine if you could just say “Share with my classroom” or “Start my Pear Deck”.  Join us to hear how Merlyn is allowing teachers to do just that – simplify tech workflows and allow you to focus on your students.
Using an AI Assistant to Save Time in Classroom Teaching	In this session, see how teachers are using Merlyn Mind AI assistant to save time and leverage engaging teaching practices.  Learn how Promethean and Merlyn Mind are working together to untether the teacher and lower techno-stress.
Show Me the Research! Efficacy of AI Assistant in Classrooms	Merlyn Mind, Digital Promise, and the University of California, Irvine worked together in a creative new way (we call it Research Practice Industry Partnership (RPIP)) to evaluate the efficacy of transformative AI technology in classrooms. Join us to learn about the research partnership and the exciting results of how Merlyn, the digital assistant for teachers, saves teachers time and decreases stress as they teach with technology. See Merlyn in action as we demonstrate how Merlyn and Promethean’s interactive display technology work better together to free teachers with more options to interact with technology as they teach.