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Tomorrow's Creators Today: Creating a Future Ready AI Graduate

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Innovator Talk
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Session description

Ready to cultivate an AI Ready Graduate? Discover how students of all ages can use AI to think critically, create boldly, and connect meaningfully. Come explore Culatta's Profile of an AI Graduate, see our student examples, and walk away with tools, strategies, and plans to cultivate creators and change makers.

Outline

I. Introduce the Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate according to Richard Culatta (6 minutes)
II. Audience shares their own perspectives, lessons, and tools through a back channel (4 minutes initially and then throughout the presentation)
III. Identify and define each of the six strands in our own words as we: (72 minutes)
A. Garner responses from participants to decide which strands they would like to dive into first.
B. Share tools to help develop proficiency in that strand in the order of most popular requests first.
C. Provide student examples from both elementary and secondary levels
D. Allow participants to continue to share their own inspirations in the workshop and in the backchannel
IV. Review our shared space and prepare takeaways for all participants. (4 minutes)
V. Address any unanswered questions (4 minutes)

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Outcomes

Attendees will contribute to and receive a collaborative resource with specific examples and tools educators could use to help students cultivate proficiency across the six domains of Cullata's Profile of an AI Graduate and to become future-ready. This shared resource will include actionable strategies, classroom examples for elementary and secondary students, and AI tools aligned to each domain. Participants will leave with a framework they can adapt and implement in their own settings to guide student growth and artificial intelligence integration.

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Supporting research

Culatta, Richard, "Profile of an AI-Ready Graduate," ASCD Blog, July 14, 2025 accessed at https://www.ascd.org/blogs/profile-of-an-ai-ready-graduate

Artificial Intelligence Lessons, https://iste.org/ai-lessons

"Bringing AI to School: Tips for School Leaders", https://cms-live-media.iste.org/Bringing_AI_to_School-2023_07.pdf?_ga=2.44853293.8829351.1759761443-1123853315.1758136678

Hayes Jacobs, Heidi & Fisher, Michael, "Prompt Literacy: A Key for AI-Based Learning, ASCD Vol. 80 No. 9, June 26, 2023, accessed at https://ascd.org/el/articles/prompt-literacy-a-key-for-ai-based-learning

Frontier, Tony, "Taking a Transformative Approach to AI", ASCD Vol. 80 No. 9, accessed at https://ascd.org/el/articles/taking-a-transformative-approach-to-ai

Gray, Kevin, "Helping Students Design Their Future with AI-Powered Career and Life Design", April 7, 2025, NACE web post, accessed at https://www.naceweb.org/career-development/best-practices/helping-students-design-their-future-with-ai-powered-career-and-life-design

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Presenters

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Instructional Coordinator
Educational Consultant
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Teacher
Patton Elementary

Session specifications

Topic:

Artificial Intelligence

Grade level:

PK-12

Audience:

Curriculum Designer/Director, District-Level Leadership, Teacher

Attendee devices:

Devices useful

Attendee device specification:

Smartphone: Android, iOS, Windows
Laptop: Chromebook, Mac, PC
Tablet: Android, iOS, Windows

Subject area:

Elementary/Multiple Subjects, Interdisciplinary (STEM/STEAM)

ISTE Standards:

For Students: Empowered Learner, Innovative Designer, Creative Communicator

Transformational Learning Principles:

Develop Expertise, Ignite Agency
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