EngageAI: Putting the Story Back in STEM Learning

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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

Testing the Bot: Building Ethical & Effective AI Agents for Learning

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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

Shaping SceneCraft with AI Literacy in Mind: Insights from Our Practitioner Advisory Board

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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

Navigating the Education Landscape with an AI Compass

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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

Empowering Teachers with Breakthrough AI for Deep Dialogue Analysis

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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

What To Expect from EngageAI This Year

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

Using AI to Connect Game-Based and Narrative-Centered Learning

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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

Multimodal Analytics Achieves the Test of Time

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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

GenAI completes tasks efficiently, but learning is about process

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By Judi Fusco and Jeremy Roschelle Throughout this article, Judi Fusco and Jeremy Roschelle discuss what the educational research community observed in 2023 regarding how students and educators were impacted by this generative artificial intelligence technologies. Read on to see their conversation. Judi Fusco: Over the past year, a lot of people wanted to talk … Read more

Redesigning an AI Bill of Rights For & With Young People

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By Sarah K. Burriss and EngageAI Staff Key Ideas In late 2022, the White House released the Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. This document is an important first step in responding to the increasing presence and impact of AI systems in our daily lives, and we wanted to share and discuss it with … Read more