Use AI. Don’t Become AI.
Kendal Fortson of Diogenes Education will be presenting a workshop entitled Use AI. Don’t Become AI: Leveraging AI as a Process-Based Tool for Authentic Learning at the Deeper Learning Conference 2025 in Guangzhou, China. The event is sponsored by the Deeper learning Center, and co-sponsored by Guangzhou Ulink International School (GUIS), and the High Tech High Graduate School of Education (HTH). Kendal will be presenting on Friday, November 28th at 13:00, 2025 during the A sessions.
As stated on the website for the educational conference: The 2025 DLC China Deep Learning Conference will focus on the theme of “AI and PBL Leading Classroom Innovation ,” highlighting the integration and innovation of artificial intelligence and project-based learning (PBL) in education in the new era.
This year’s conference will bring together education practitioners, researchers, and innovators from China, the United States, and around the world to discuss the practices and trends of AI and PBL in instructional design, learning assessment, teacher and student growth, and education system reform.
Dates: November 28-30, 2025
Location: Guangzhou Union International School (No. 8 Weili Road, Nansha District, Guangzhou, China)
Speaker Biography: Kendal Fortson (M.S. Curriculum & Instruction) is an AP Psychology & English teacher and is currently teaching at GUIS in Guangzhou, China. He has presented PD workshops for NESA and IBSEA. His workshops emphasize interdisciplinary learning, media literacy and the analysis of cultural contexts in narratives, and the ethical integration of technology into classrooms to ensure it does not replace active engagement and authentic learning. When not in the classroom, he writes on educational topics and develops educational resources for international schools, and (time permitting) composes music for orchestral instruments.
Workshop overview: This workshop explains how to incorporate AI prompt engineering in student assignments as a tool to assist with providing feedback without replacing critical thinking, reflection, or authentic learning in student’s work. The workshop focuses on analyzing connotation of words that generate specific AI output, and analysing the cultural context behind the data fed to AI systems. The goal is to ensure AI is a tool that is used and never an end-product submitted. It examines methodologies and guidelines in using AI as a tool in four domains: Stylistic Writing Choices (ELA) with exercises in prompting and image creation to analyze diction and connotation; Critical Thinking and Cognition (TOK/Social Sciences) analyzing the cultural context and data given to AI to generate certain responses; Grammar Correction (ELA) issues; Research and OPVL analysis (all subjects).
Check out Diogenes Education’s AI in Education resources
Prompt Engineering Ethical AI ChatGPT: English, Psychology, Theory of Knowledge
Artificial Intelligence & Ethical AI: Prompt Engineering with ChatGPT (ELA/Tech)
Artificial Intelligence Plagiarism Detection: ChatGPT Quillbot Teacher Training
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