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Concurrent 60 min

Thinking Outside the Bot: Leveraging AI to Develop Gifted Superpowers

Saturday, November 15, 2025
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM ET
Location: Convention Center, Ballroom BC
Grade Level: Pre-K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

  • Brian Housand

    Program Coordinator
    University of North Carolina Wilmington
    Wilmington, North Carolina, United States

  • Emily L. Mofield, EdD

    Associate Professor of Education
    Lipscomb University
    White House, Tennessee, United States

Short Description: In a world where AI seems to have all the answers, who holds the power? Student or technology? Come explore ways to embrace AI while developing gifted superpowers to think deeply, solve creatively, and struggle productively. Let’s challenge learners to reflect on their process, evaluate answers, and maintain control over the balance of power between human ingenuity and artificial intelligence.

Learning Objectives:

  • Design tasks that prioritize the learning process over the final product by developing the superpowers of curiosity, wisdom, discernment, and courage.
  • Embed metacognitive prompts in learning experiences to help students critically evaluate AI outputs and reflect on their use of technology.
  • Create tasks with and without AI that incorporate productive struggle, encouraging students to grapple with complexity and think critically.