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CS Bytes make it easy to bring topics into your classroom, providing a curated taste of a given CS topic alongside relevant lessons, implementation ideas, webinar recordings, and other helpful resources.

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Lunch and Learn CTRL THINK: Guiding Students Through AI Literacy and Critical Thinking Skills

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Grades:
k-12
Date:
Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

The need for this topic has reached its ultimate high as we enter the era of AI. Leave this session with lesson plan ideas, resources, and technology tools (Checkology) to help guide you along the journey for creating critical thinkers rather than regurgitators. The session will be facilitated by Stevie Frank, Zionsville Community Schools.
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Vibe Coding: Empowering Student Agency Though AI (10/12/26)

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Grades:
k-12
Date:
October 12, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

Explore vibe coding, an approach where students collaborate with AI to build websites, apps, games, and digital tools without relying solely on traditional programming skills. This session shares classroom-ready strategies and real student examples for using vibe coding to boost student agency, creativity, and ownership in authentic project-based learning.
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Thinking Work: What’s Left for Students When AI Can Do the Assignment

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Grades:
6-12
Date:
October 21, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

Teachers bring an assignment they already give. In the first ten minutes we run it through a chatbot and see what survives. Then we rebuild the task so the thinking students do is the part that can’t be handed off, using decomposition and pattern-finding as the frame. Everyone leaves with one rebuilt assignment and a […]
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Reinforce Data Science in Your Classroom: Finding Opportunities in What You Already Teach

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Grades:
k-5
Date:
October 23, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

Data science does not always require new lessons or another subject. Elementary classrooms already engage students in data practices through science investigations, surveys, observations, mathematics, and everyday learning. In this session, teachers will explore elementary data science, identify practices already present in their curriculum, and discover practical ways to strengthen them through existing lessons and […]
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The Case of the Missing Weekend: Building CS Units with Lovable AI

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Grades:
k-12
Date:
October 24, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

Explore how Imagi creates a safe, supportive space for students to learn, experiment, and grow with AI through creativity, problem-solving, and innovation. Leave with a ready-to-use unit template, rubric, and starter prompts for a community-based project—no coding required! Get hands-on with Imagi Labs and Lovable AI to turn a local legend into a standards-aligned CS […]
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Practical AI for Educators: Using NotebookLM to Save Time and Improve Instruction

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Grades:
k-12
Date:
October 26, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

Discover how NotebookLM can transform your existing curriculum into interactive lesson plans, assessments, study guides, differentiated activities, and instructional supports, all while keeping your own trusted resources at the center of the process. This session introduces a practical AI tool that saves planning time and supports K-12 educators across content areas.
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Diving Deep into Loops

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Grades:
K-6
Date:
October 27, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

This session will explore unique and fun ways to introduce, teach, and review loops to students in grades K-6. This workshop will be facilitated by Maria Sellers, South Vermillion Schools.
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Creative Play with AI Concepts: Stories and Pictures

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Grades:
K-2
Date:
November 4, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

This introductory session equips early childhood educators with strategies to demystify artificial intelligence for young learners (K–2) using hands-on, relatable activities. Through interactive stations and unplugged lessons covering concepts like training data, pattern recognition, algorithms, and remixing, the workshop demonstrates how to foster critical thinking and digital literacy in early education. This session will be […]
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AI-Powered Literacy Pedagogy

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Grades:
3-12
Date:
November 5, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

During the workshop, you will gain hands-on experience transforming complex texts into engaging audio and video overviews, interactive mind maps, and differentiated study materials that help students identify key details and synthesize information.
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REMIXing Assessments

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Grades:
k-5
Date:
November 17, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

Ever given a worksheet a scenic drive to school and back without grading it? Same. What if we remixed those fill-in-the-blank recall quizzes into tasks students actually want to do? In this live Assessment Remix, we’ll turn a 3rd-grade worksheet into a multimodal, student-driven challenge using Adobe Express. Leave with the REMIX checklist, fresh examples, […]
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AI for ALL – Building Inclusive, Accessible, and Future-Ready Learning Experiences

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Grades:
k-12
Date:
November 20, 2026
Location:
online
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Description

Discover practical ways AI can help educators create more accessible and inclusive learning experiences for students with disabilities, multilingual learners, and students who benefit from additional support. Participants will explore tools and strategies for adapting materials, reducing barriers, and supporting student independence while keeping teacher judgment at the center. This session will be facilitated by […]
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What is a CS Byte by Nextech?

In order to understand a byte, it is good to define a bit. A bit is the smallest piece of information a computer can store; a single binary digit. A bit can be either a 0 or a 1.

A byte is a unit of data that is eight bits long. The bytes allow users to communicate with computers by creating and storing single characters (letters, numbers, and symbols). While single bytes are not as big and powerful as a megabyte (MB), which uses ​​8,000,000 bits, they are very mighty as they are able to generate basic information to the computer and its user.

A Nextech CS Byte is exactly the same thing. It is a taste of a specific computer science or AI concept, topic, or theme.