Traditional classroom teaching is an example of scaling education with a one-size-fits-all strategy, but modern machine learning algorithms are promised to adapt and personalize for each student. Can we succeed and what are the harms and benefits of introducing AI into the classroom?
By Allen Nie, October 2024
AIstory-bot, a text-based chatbot designed to teach students about artificial intelligence (AI), guides students through creative writing activities that provide an inquiry-based, interactive storytelling experience to enhance young learners' engagement, motivation, and efficacy toward AI.
By Ariel Han, Shenshen Han, October 2024
Interactive murals integrate electronics into traditional murals to create a new kind of public art as well as a new kind of large-scale and community-situated technology. This article introduces interactive murals along with a set of activities designed to engage young people in technology and the arts. We describe the process and outcome of workshops in which a muralist, two interaction design researchers, and a group of diverse teenagers designed and built a large-scale interactive mural on the exterior wall of a local building.
By Alyshia Bustos, Nanibah Chacon, Leah Buechley, June 2023
By Amy Adair, April 2023
This article pilots ChatGPT in tackling the most challenging part of science learning and found it successful in automation of assessment development, grading, learning guidance, and recommendation of learning materials.
By Xiaoming Zhai, April 2023
In order to foster interest in machine learning among young people, presented are simple and effective ways to engage kids using sensors on their own bodies.
By Abigail Zimmermann-Niefield, R. Benjamin Shapiro, Shaun Kane, July 2019
Use your individuality to build your career path whether it leans toward academia, outreach, or both. The existing underlying threads between your experiences and the pursuit of research problems might surprise you.
By Joslenne Peña, December 2017
