Control Alt Achieve: My Sun City EdTech Sessions

Monday, August 25, 2025

My Sun City EdTech Sessions

I am excited and honored to be a featured speaker at the 2025 Sun City EdTech Conference hosted by ESC19 and TCEA in El Paso, Texas on September 11th.

I always look forward to an opportunity to see old friends, make new friends, share some ideas, and learn so many new things from others.

You can get all of the details about the conference including registration, presenters, sessions, and more on the conference website at:

esc19.net/conferences/sun-city-edtech-conference

Below is a list of sessions I will be presenting at the conference, along with any associated resources. Please feel free to join me for any of these sessions. I look forward to sharing, learning, and chatting with you!

📅 Thursday, September 11, 2025

🚦 Artificial Intelligence / Natural Misuse - Managing AI in Schools

Time: 10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Location: Rio Grande Summit Room (Room #1, Main Stage) at the Starlight Event Center
Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-aimisuse
Description: As beneficial as AI is, it also comes with challenges and the potential for misuse. In this session we will explore ways to address academic integrity concerns, tools and strategies to help monitor AI use, proper citation for AI generated content, ways to encourage positive use of AI in the classrooms, developing your own class set of AI guidelines for students, alternative assessment options, addressing AI bias and inaccuracies, student data privacy, identifying fake content, evaluating AI tools, and more.

🔑 Accessibility Tools to Support all Learners

Time: 11:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Location: Rio Grande Summit Room (Room #1) at the Starlight Event Center
Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-support
Description: There are many tools, apps, extensions, and features available to assist all learners. In this session we take an in-depth hands-on look at a wide range of technology tools to assist any and all learners. These can include text-to-speech, speech-to-text, readability, reading comprehension, artificial intelligence tools, audio support, organization, focus, and more. Learn what tools are available and how to access and use these free tools with your students.

💼 AI for Admins: Learning and Leading with AI

Time: 1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Paso Del Norte #2 (PDN #2) conference room at ESC Region 19 Building A (located next to the Starlight Event Center)
Session Agenda: https://bit.ly/curts-aiadmin
Description: It has been said that with generative AI, every educator now has their own personal 24-hour assistant. Learn how to use tools such as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, NotebookLM, Brisk Teaching, MagicSchoolAI, SchoolAI, Suno, ElevenLabs and more to help you brainstorm, generate content, summarize information, revise text, process PDFs, analyze data, make forms and presentations, create custom chatbots, generate media and much more. Save more time so you can spend more time impacting your staff and students!