SCHOOL LIBRARIANS: Using AI Tools to Increase Student Learning and Enhance Your Productivity (Grades K-12) Presented by Crystal Trice Award-Winning School Librarian and National Presenter

Specifically Designed for School Librarians, Library Media Specialists, Library Media Assistants, Library Aides, and Administrators Serving Grades K-12

• How to make best use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to enhance student engagement and learning in the library
• Highly practical ways you can increase your teaching productivity using AI
• How to effectively use state-of-the art AI technologies in your school library … Explore and gain hands-on experience
• Pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns with the use of AI-powered tools and resources in the library

Practical Ideas and Strategies

This seminar presented by award-winning librarian Crystal Trice is an exciting opportunity for library staff to explore the latest developments in Artificial Intelligence and their specific applications in the school library. Experience hands-on activities, demonstrations, and modeling. Engage with other librarians around the potential of AI technologies and their implications for library curriculum and student research. Discover common pitfalls to avoid and solutions to ethical concerns when using AI-powered tools and resources. Explore outstanding ways you can make the most of this cutting-edge technology – specifically in your own school library. This seminar is designed to provide you with practical, actionable strategies and skills you can implement immediately.

Join Crystal for a highly practical day filled with ways to make best use of AI tools to strengthen your students' learning, enhance your instruction, and improve your own productivity.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

1. Make Best Use of AI Tools in Your School Library
   Essential, practical ways to harness Artificial Intelligence tools in school libraries … Explore the best, most useful AI tools for increasing your students' learning while increasing your own productivity
2. Quickly Create Highly Engaging Library Lessons With AI
   Enhance students' interest and motivation in the library with ease by curating content aligned with library standards and your students' needs … Construct fun and highly engaging learning opportunities with just a few clicks
3. Increase Your Productivity and the Efficiency of Your Library
   Use AI tools to improve your efficiency with administrative and communication tasks … Regain valuable time to focus on teaching and student learning
4. Easily Differentiate Your Instruction to Better Support Diverse Learners
   Quickly customize and strengthen your existing curriculum using AI learning experiences that improve students' retention of key concepts and promote active learning
5. Help Students Utilize and Evaluate AI With Critical Thinking Skills
   Empower your students to leverage AI to engage in thoughtful inquiry work … Learn age-appropriate strategies to incorporate AI at every grade level while developing information literacy and critical thinking skills
6. Foster Student Learning and Higher-Level Thinking Skills
   Learn how to empower your students to develop creativity and problem-solving skills through the use of AI-powered tools
7. Promote Innovation in Your Library
   Explore specific ways to integrate cutting-edge AI into your library program … Foster greater creativity in both teaching and learning
8. Avoid and Address Potential Pitfalls and Ethical Concerns
   AI opens up exciting new opportunities, but can also bring new challenges and concerns … Explore solutions to potential pitfalls and ethical concerns, and ways to promote the responsible use of AI among students
9. Motivate Your Unmotivated Students Using AI
   Learn how to use AI to motivate your unmotivated students and foster a love of reading that extends beyond school and into everyday life
10. Receive an Extensive Digital Resource Handbook on AI in the School Library
    You will receive a highly practical digital resource handbook packed with ideas, strategies and resources for using AI to increase student learning and enhance your productivity

Outstanding Strategies You Can Use Immediately

Here's what you'll learn:

• The best, most useful AI tools to enhance your instruction and productivity, and increase your students' learning in the library
• How to readily integrate AI into your existing lessons and units so you don't need to start from scratch
• Numerous ideas for fostering creativity and innovation in your library curriculum using AI platforms and applications
• Ways to eliminate tedious planning, using AI prompts aligned to specific genres and library standards so you can enjoy being creative again
• Approaches to help you differentiate your instruction rapidly and easily to better support your unique learners, including those with special needs
• Innovative ways to build students' critical thinking, collaboration, teamwork, and problem-solving skills using AI
• Methods for using AI to streamline administrative tasks like planning, crafting sensitive email replies, and documenting evidence of learning
• Essential ways to strengthen student research and data analysis skills using AI
• A roadmap for integrating AI in the library: the latest developments, challenges, opportunities, and pitfalls to avoid
• How AI can easily provide personalized instruction in the library, engaging students' specific interests, preferences, and learning styles
• Valuable tips to get the most from AI in your library – even if you're the only one using it!

A Message From Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

When we read about Artificial Intelligence, it can cause anxious thoughts about the impact on research and libraries. Perhaps we're overwhelmed by the idea of incorporating something new or concerned about ethical use of this emerging technology.

As librarians, we've been here before with emerging technology tools like Google and Wikipedia, often taking the role of cutting-edge change champions. Even with valid professional doubts, Artificial Intelligence is here to stay. As information scientists, let's do what we've done before – embrace the messy and creative possibilities, while keeping our eyes wide open for potential pitfalls and hazards.

Based on my years of experience as a school librarian, I am excited about the potential of AI tools to transform the way we teach and how our students do research. During our day together, you'll learn how to harness the power of this transformative technology to greatly enhance your library curriculum. Through interactive and hands-on activities, we'll explore practical strategies to help you easily integrate AI tools into your everyday library work. And you'll get to connect with a diverse group of educators from across the country interested in using AI in their libraries.

We will explore the latest developments in AI and their specific applications in the school library. You'll learn how to create engaging library lessons, streamline
reader's advisory, and foster student innovation and critical thinking through the use of AI-powered tools. Discover ethical considerations involved in the use of AI, and best practices for promoting responsible use of AI in library research.

It's my goal to provide you with the tools and knowledge you need to harness the power and potential of AI tools in the school library. You'll gain new skills and knowledge you can apply immediately to strengthen both your students' learning and your work as a school librarian. I look forward to partnering with you on this journey!

Sincerely,
Crystal Trice

P.S. We'll be digging directly into AI platforms, so make sure you come with your best energy! You'll leave ready to hit the ground running with great, practical ways to use AI in your library program.

Who Should Attend

School Librarians, Library Media Specialists, Library Media Assistants, Library Aides, and Administrators Serving Grades K-12

About BER Live Online Events

With the current health challenges, all BER in-person PD events are currently being presented in a Live Online format:

• Outstanding Instructors
  All programs are led by outstanding BER national trainers
• Extensive Resource Handbooks
  You'll have access to an extensive digital Resource Handbook before, during and after your seminar
• Highly Interactive
  You'll be able to ask questions in real time and interact with the instructor and other participants
• Program Guarantee
  As we have for 48 years, we guarantee the high quality of our programs. If you are not satisfied, we'll give you a 100% refund.

Special Benefits of Attending

Extensive AI in the School Library Digital Resource Handbook
You will receive an extensive digital resource handbook specifically designed for this seminar. Included in the handbook are:

• Sample prompts and strategies for using AI tools to create engaging library lessons that meet diverse student needs
• The latest developments in AI including emerging technologies, and their implications in the library
• Protocols to engage library learners ethically and thoughtfully with these tools
• Best practices for promoting responsible and ethical use of AI in the library, including data privacy, security, and student well-being
• Ways to use AI to automate routine administrative tasks, allowing more time for teaching and student learning
• Strategies to foster critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and teamwork using AI-powered tools

For in-person seminars, registrants will also receive a printed copy of the resource handbook as long as their registration is received in the BER office at least 15 calendar days before the event.

Share Ideas
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to share ideas with other educators interested in making best use of AI tools in school libraries.

Consultation Available
Crystal will be available for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own library program.

Semester Credit Option
Up to four graduate level professional development credits are available with an additional fee and completion of follow-up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with University of Massachusetts Global, a nonprofit affiliate, will be available at this program.

Meet Inservice Requirements
Participants of both the Live Online Seminar and those completing the Recorded Version online can receive a certificate of participation that may be used to verify five continuing education hours. State CEUs are available for both versions of the course. For specific details, visit www.ber.org/ceus.

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