"The most effective guidelines encourage critical thinking, center the human decision-making and allow for nuance," says Ken Shelton, an edtech thought leader and featured speaker at the 2026 Future of Education Technology Conference.
This year's program is designed to address the most pressing safety and security challenges schools face nationwide, while showcasing innovations in AI, surveillance and cyber-hardening.
A national survey found that most Texas teachers used AI tools in math instruction during the 2024–25 school year, but more than one in five said their districts offered no training on how to use them.
Masters guides us through some practical ways of leveraging Google's NotebookLM in ways that are human-centered and research-based to improve academic outcomes.
