Facilitators

Katia Izmerli-Reed

  • AI Literacy Lead, ESL Coordinator, Family Liason,
  • North American International School

Katia Reed is the AI Literacy Lead, EAL Coordinator, and Mandarin teacher at North American International School in Dubai, where she designs and delivers the school's AI literacy curriculum for Grades 6 through 12. She is a member of the UAE AI Think Tank and an AI Changemaker. Katia has facilitated workshops on custom AI tools and project-based learning at the Common Core Virtual Boot Camp and delivered a fully booked session at the Dubai Teaching Conference. She builds and deploys classroom and whole-school platforms using vibe coding, including an AI ethics escape room series, a whole-school lesson planning workflow, an ELL assessment platform, and a suite of leadership and administration tools, all without traditional coding. Her work sits at the intersection of AI literacy, inclusive pedagogy, and practical school leadership.

Ms. Katia Izmerli-Reed

Session Details

Educator Strand

  • Workshop: No Code, Just Vibes: Vibe-coding for Educators
  • Stream: Inclusive Classrooms and Student Success
  • Date & Time: 26 SEPT

Synopsis- What if any teacher could build a fully interactive classroom tool in under an hour, with no coding background required? This hands-on workshop introduces vibe coding: using AI to generate, iterate, and publish functional web-based tools through natural language prompts alone. Grounded in Cognitive Load Theory and the Generative Activity Principle (Fiorella and Mayer), the session strips away the syntax and logic that traditionally overload working memory before a teacher gets to think about their students. Participants will see live classroom tools already in active use, including an AI ethics escape room and a multilingual resource, before building their own.