Name: Engaging Students Through AI Songwriting, Scratch Coding, and Makey Makey Activities
Start: 2025-01-20T13:45:00-0500
End: 2025-01-20T14:30:00-0500

Monday January 20, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm EST

Middle School, Room 103

Learn how to take your students’ ideas and turn them into engaging songs to help concepts stick. Leveraging AI, teachers can now be song writers and creators. Music sticks in our heads longer than most information, so why not learn to use that to your advantage. Learn to create amazing lesson hooks, engaging activities, and more with some great AI apps.

Engage your students in creating virtual musical instruments, animations, and games with Scratch! Using Makey Makey, you can introduce them to interactive technology by turning everyday objects like fruit, aluminum foil, or even their own bodies into fun, hands-on controllers for their Scratch projects. Makey Makey lets students see the science behind conductors and insulators while exploring creativity and coding. It’s perfect for STEAM activities, sparking curiosity and making abstract concepts real through touch and play!

Objectives:
1. Discuss AI and different uses in the classroom
2. Learn to create music with Suno AI, and utilize different programs to help with lyrics.
3. Utilize whiteboard programs to collect ideas and collaborate on this process.
4. Audience will learn to code with Scratch
5. Audience will learn how to use Makey Makey
6. Audience will explore how to use Scratch and Makey Makey in their classrooms.

Speakers

Junko Yamamoto

Professor, Slippery Rock University

I used to be a high school Japanese teacher. I have been teaching at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania since 2005. I have taught instructional technology and world language teaching methodology. Hence, I like thinking about "What is a pedagogically sound use of technology in... Read More →

Matt Karabinos

6th grade teacher, Williamsburg Community School District

Monday January 20, 2025 1:45pm - 2:30pm EST
Middle School, Room 103

Session, Engage and Connect

Audience High School Educators (9-12, Middle School Educators (6-8, Elementary Educators (K-5), Appropriate for all Audiences
Subject Robotics & Coding, Computational Thinking Pathway, Integrating AI into the Classroom

Tickets

TRETC 2025

Junko Yamamoto

Matt Karabinos

TRETC 2025

Junko Yamamoto

Matt Karabinos

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