Uncheatable: Designing Assessments in the age of AI

Workshop Description

Low student engagement and artificial intelligence have educators wondering about the future of school. The solution: Uncheatable assessments. Award-winning educator and best-selling author Michael Hernandez shares examples of classroom tested, evidence-based strategies for designing rigorous, equitable, and meaningful assessments in every grade level and subject area.

This session helps participants learn to use project-based assignments as a substitute for traditional assessments like worksheets, quizzes, tests, and essays.

Participants will:

  • Reflect and evaluate their current goals for assessment
  • Learn how project-based assessments disincentivize cheating
  • See what project-based assessment looks like in different subject areas 
  • Hear case studies from science, math, social studies, and elementary
  • Learn strategies and best practices for designing their own project-based assessments
  • Find out how to grade project-based assignments

Workshop Presenter

Michael Hernandez | Cinema and Journalism Teacher, Author, Speaker and Consultant

Email: cinehead3@gmail.com
LinkedIn: Michael Hernandez
Instagram: @changing.the.narrative
Bluesky: @cinehead.bsky.social

Michael is an award-winning teacher, author, and speaker in Los Angeles whose work focuses on digital and civic literacy, authentic assessment, and innovative teaching strategies.  His book, Storytelling With Purpose: Digital Projects to Ignite Student Curiosity (ISTE) helps educators increase student engagement, and his course, Uncheatable Assessments, shows how to design assignments that foster academic integrity in the age of AI. 

Michael leads workshops and speaks at conferences in the U.S. and abroad, and is a National Geographic Grosvneor Teacher Fellow, Apple Distinguished Educator, and PBS Digital Innovator.  Follow him on Linked In, Bluesky: @cinehead.bsky.social, Instagram: @changing.the.narrative, and at www.michael-hernandez.net


A photo of Michael Hernandez