Sam von Gillern

Speaking & Consulting

Research-grounded support for schools, universities, conferences, and education organizations

Sam is available for talks, workshops, consulting, and research partnerships on AI literacy, digital citizenship, media literacy, game-based learning, and literacy education.

Ways to Work Together

Choose the path that best fits the audience and goal.

Keynote Talks

Clear, research-grounded talks for conferences, districts, universities, and literacy organizations.

  • AI literacy for teachers and students
  • Responsible AI use in schools
  • Digital citizenship in the AI era
  • Video games as literacy-rich learning environments

Professional Development Workshops

Practical sessions that help educators connect emerging technologies to literacy instruction, student agency, and classroom realities.

  • AI and writing instruction
  • AI in literacy education
  • Media literacy and misinformation
  • Game-based learning in English language arts

District and University Consulting

Advising for leaders and educator teams making research-grounded decisions about AI, digital citizenship, media literacy, and literacy-rich technology use.

  • AI literacy planning
  • Responsible classroom guidance
  • Professional learning design

Edtech and Game-Based Learning Consulting

Research-informed advising for organizations building learning experiences involving games, literacy, AI, or digital participation.

  • Game-based literacy learning
  • Accessibility and inclusion in game-based learning
  • Learning design for literacy-rich digital environments
  • Educator-facing AI features and implementation concerns

Research and Evaluation Partnerships

Collaboration with researchers, grant teams, education organizations, and product teams studying literacy, technology, and learning.

  • Survey and scale development
  • Teacher and student perspectives
  • Program evaluation
  • Grant-aligned research design

Featured service

AI-Powered Research & Data Analysis

Privacy-aware, human-reviewed AI workflows for education, literacy, and social-science research teams. The work stays human-reviewed and research-grounded.

Discuss an AI Research Project

Project areas

  • Qualitative analysis of interviews, focus groups, open-ended responses, and research artifacts
  • Local and private AI workflows for sensitive data
  • Document, literature, and evidence synthesis
  • Survey, scale, mixed-methods, and open-response analysis

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