📅 Monday, February 9, 2026
📍Centennial College Event Centre in Scarborough
Attendee cost: $305.00
CIS Ontario Professional Learning Event: UNCONFERENCE 2026
Reclaiming the Human Future of Learning in an AI-Shaped World
This year’s Unconference brings CIS Ontario educators together to explore how AI can elevate, rather than erode, the human side of learning.
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HUMAN-CENTRIC DESIGN
Focus on building AI fluent communities where human thinking, relationships, and creativity thrive.
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PRACTICAL APPLICATION
Examine real applications of GenAI and surface emerging competencies for school pathways.
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EXPERT KEYNOTES
Keynotes from leading data scientists and forward-thinking educators to ground the day in evidence.
Evidence, Imagination, and Purpose
Participants will choose from four focused strands, ranging from practical classroom strategies to leadership frameworks, measurement tools, and reimagined assessment practices.
Strand 1: Start Here
Making AI Work for You in the Classroom
GUIDING QUESTION: How might we intentionally integrate GenAI into “everyday learning tasks” so that AI is a partner in thinking, not a shortcut, and in a way that centres on helping students build creativity, critical reasoning, and meaningful collaboration?
SUITABLE FOR:
- Early entry classroom educators with GenAI (all grade levels, all disciplines)
- Curriculum Leaders, Teachers (K-12), Division Leaders
Strand 2: Deep Dive
Exploring the CAIS AI Maturity Model
GUIDING QUESTION: How might we level up our school’s understanding of their current Gen AI landscape in a generative way to enhance our programming, operations and community?
SUITABLE FOR:
- School middle leadership, senior leadership, administrators, IT
- Those who have not had the time to really explore the Model's contents and resources
Strand 3: Collaboration
Generative Learning: Building a Coherent School-Wide Approach
GUIDING QUESTION: How might we empower schools to lead from the middle, strengthening faculty collaboration, administrative alignment, and shared practices that create consistency and momentum across the whole learning community?
SUITABLE FOR:
- Any educator, IT, middle or senior leadership
- Anyone involved in, or wanting to start, a GenAI learning team with colleagues
Strand 4: Assessment
Re-imagining assessment FOR / AS / OF learning for the AI age
GUIDING QUESTION: How do we design assessment that strengthens human thinking, agency, and learning relationships in a world where AI can do so much of the work?
SUITABLE FOR:
- Educators focused on curriculum and assessment design
- Division and Curriculum Leaders
- All who want to strengthen student agency through evaluation
The Goal is Clear.
Build AI-fluent communities where human thinking, relationships, and creativity thrive.
Through panels, hands-on sessions, and collaborative design, attendees will examine real applications of GenAI, surface emerging competencies, and chart purposeful pathways for their schools.
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