Author: Anthony Baker Key Ideas At this year’s League of Innovative Schools meeting in Pittsburgh, Digital Promise invited educators and district leaders into an exciting and emerging space in education: the intersection of GenAI, storytelling, and instructional practice. The session wasn’t just about showcasing a new technology — it was about reimagining how we engage … Read more
Authors: Kimberly Farnsworth & Kelli Paul Key Ideas AI-Enhanced Immersive Learning Experiences Over the past four years, our team has developed EcoJourneys, a narrative-centered, AI-enhanced science game that engages middle school students in solving real-world environmental problems through immersive, story-driven gameplay. Set on a fictional island in the Philippines, students take on the role of … Read more
Author: Jeremy Roschelle Generative AI is a story machine. Yes, Generative AI can make a lesson plan, help a student with math homework, or support a student as they develop an essay. But we believe there are other, more ambitious and impactful uses for STEM learning. In particular, we focus on using generative AI to … Read more
Authors: Megan Humburg & Joshua Danish Key Ideas Our team has been developing AI-supported conversational agents that help students learn to write persuasive arguments in science, drawing on observations and evidence that they learn in our game-based environments. These agents need to assess students’ writing, evaluate how convincing and detailed the argument is, and offer … Read more
Author: Joe A. Melendez At EngageAI, we’re committed to empowering teachers and students to use AI creatively and deeply understand it. Our latest AI-based tool, SceneCraft, is being designed with direct insights from educators in our Practitioner Advisory Board (PAB) to ensure it fosters AI literacy effectively and responsibly. As a story-generating tool, SceneCraft will … Read more
Authors: Sarah Burriss, Kip Glazer, Bill Bass and Judi Fusco Are you searching for a way through all the new AI systems in the education landscape? Would you like a compass to guide your path to positive impacts on members of your school ecosystem (including teachers, principals, district staff, students, and families)? It seems educators … Read more
Author: Halim Acosta Key Ideas: To investigate how students collaborate and build knowledge in group settings, we conducted our study within EcoJourneys, a collaborative, game-based learning environment designed to teach middle school students about ecosystems. In this virtual experience, students worked in teams to uncover the cause of a mysterious illness affecting a fish population … Read more
Author: Gabrielle Lue and Emma Braaten In its fourth year, the EngageAI Institute continues its focus on creating AI-driven narrative-centered learning environments. We envision a future of learning where students are actively engaged in the classroom and all participants, including educators, can find support through emerging technologies and collaboration. In 2025, our outreach will expand … Read more
This blog post was originally published via the Community for Advancing Discovery Research in Education (CADRE) on November 25, 2024. The original blog can be accessed here. Authors: Jeremy Roschelle, Executive Director of Learning Sciences Research, Digital Promise; Gautam Biswas, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Engineering and Professor of Computer Science and Computer Engineering, Vanderbilt University; Cindy … Read more
Authors: Jeremy Roschelle, Gabrielle Lue and Gautam Biswas On July 17, 2024, Professor Gautam Biswas presented the “Test of Time” keynote at the Educational Data Mining conference in Atlanta, Georgia. Prof. Biswas, a co-PI of the NSF EngageAI Institute, was honored for his 2011 paper “Identifying Learning Behaviors by Contextualizing Differential Sequence Mining with Action … Read more