{"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
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 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 AI-powered Reading Progress updates: <\/strong>We announced several new features coming to Reading Progress: Reading with expression, passage generation, and comprehension question generation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An educator\u2019s view of the Expression tab in Reading Progress in Microsoft Teams for Education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Visit our recent blog post \u201cCollaborating to bring AI innovation to education<\/a>\u201d to learn more details about these announcement and updates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The AI-related announcements were just a few of the exciting developments we\u2019ve been working on that we shared at ISTELive 23. We also debuted news about our powerful alliance with CDW, a host of additional updates in Microsoft Teams, and the first ever Viva Connections for education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CDW<\/strong> is customizing their existing Microsoft services<\/a> to provide education-specific consultation, support, and training so schools are aware of everything they have access to, and feel confident in implementing what they already have in their Microsoft licensing structure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Teams for Education improvements for educators:<\/strong> There are several updates coming to Teams that are designed to save time, and help teachers organize their assignments and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Ready to grade and Past due tabs in Assignments in Microsoft Teams for Education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Adding a new grading scheme in Assignments in Microsoft Teams for Education.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n It\u2019s impossible to pick a favorite from the many informative and engaging sessions that the team presented, but a few highlights were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Code & Connect with Microsoft MakeCode and Flip<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Outside the Microsoft Learn Live Classroom sessions, attendees had the opportunity to get hands-on with game-based learning and computational thinking with Microsoft MakeCode Arcade. Educators experienced how easy it was to code their own video game within 5 minutes, and then upload the game they created to a retro Arcade machine so they and others could play their games using a joystick and buttons. Educators also had the opportunity to reflect on their experiences by recording a video on Microsoft Flip and entering the ISTE Fliphunt for a chance to win a Surface device. Many educators walked away from the experience with a new appreciation for how easy it is to incorporate inclusive, engaging computational skills, game-based and social learning into their classrooms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n An educator coding a video game with Microsoft MakeCode at ISTELive 23.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n ISTE Learn Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The ISTE Learn Challenge<\/a> is a collection of modules and key learnings based on the content from ISTELive 23. Whether you were at ISTELive 23 or not, grow your technology toolbox and sharpen your skills with this curated collection of free asynchronous learning modules. Explore how you can support all learners in your classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n All of the updates, developments, and announcements we shared this year made ISTELive 23 feel especially exciting. It\u2019s hard to imagine what incredible advancements we might be talking about next year! For now, it\u2019s time to take the summer to absorb the impact of these innovations, listen to feedback, and work to make them even more valuable tools to empower educators and engage students. We hope the summer is a great time for you to relax a bit, catch up with all the incredible new learning opportunities like the new AI course built for educators<\/a>, and some of the sessions in the ISTE Learn Challenge<\/a>. Thanks for making this an incredible ISTELive, enjoy your summer!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ISTELive 23 ends today, and as always, it was an energizing four days of connecting, learning, and sharing.<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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