{"id":2061,"date":"2023-06-28T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/06\/28\/istelive-23-recap-exciting-news-energizing-sessions\/"},"modified":"2024-05-31T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T22:36:54","slug":"istelive-23-recap-exciting-news-energizing-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/education\/blog\/2023\/06\/istelive-23-recap-exciting-news-energizing-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"ISTELive 23 Recap: Exciting news, energizing sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ISTELive 23 ends today, and as always, it was an energizing four days of connecting, learning, and sharing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year we announced lots of exciting new developments and updates, and presented sessions on the Spotlight on Solutions stage, in our Microsoft Learn Live Classroom, at the Microsoft Learn Theater in our booth. We also let hundreds of eager educators get their hands on the latest Learning Accelerators, Minecraft worlds, and more throughout our exhibit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What everyone\u2019s talking about: AI<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As you might have guessed, AI stole the show. It\u2019s definitely one of the main topics on many educators\u2019 minds, and new technologies and tools are being developed regularly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A session from Microsoft Education at ISTELive 23.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

During ISTELive 23, we shared several announcements about new collaborations bringing AI innovation to education, as well as updates to our AI-powered Learning Accelerators. We also shared information about new training opportunities to help more people gain the skills to make positive use of the technology. Some of the highlights included:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New AI course for educators:<\/strong> \u201cEmpower educators to explore the potential of artificial intelligence<\/a>\u201d available on Microsoft Learn \u2013 approximately 200 people attended live sessions and completed the course at ISTELive 23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AI Skills initiative:<\/strong> We\u2019re excited to share news about a new AI Skills initiative<\/a> to help people and communities around the world learn how to harness the power of AI. The Microsoft AI Skills initiative includes new, free coursework developed with LinkedIn; a new open global challenge in coordination with data.org to uncover new ways of training workers on generative AI; and greater access to free digital learning events and resources for everyone to improve their AI fluency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collaboration between Microsoft and New York City Schools:<\/strong> We were extremely proud to share that we have been working with New York City Public Schools to support their exploration of the development of generative AI tools tailored for their own use and to help ensure they can lead the way in the responsible, safe, and innovative use of AI by implementing appropriate safety and security measures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New collaborations with PowerSchool and Kahoot!:<\/strong> We\u2019ve also been working with PowerSchool and Kahoot! to enable their new AI-powered experiences with the Azure OpenAI Service<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n