This glossary was written for educators to reference when learning about and using artificial intelligence (AI). We start with a definition of artificial intelligence and then provide definitions of AI-related terms in alphabetical order.
What is ChatGPT? A very simple definition is that it’s a chatbot that allows a user to ask a question in plain language and get a response in a way that’s similar to how a human would reply.
Dr. Deblina Pakhira, Research Manager at Digital Promise, talks with Dr. James Lester, Principal Investigator and Director of the EngageAI Institute and a faculty member in Computer Science and Director of the Center for Educational Informatics at North Carolina State University, and Dr. Jonathan Rowe, Managing Director of the EngageAI Institute, and also a senior research scientist in the Center for Educational Informatics at North Carolina State University.
Engage AI is concerned with ethics–both in how we work as a research institute and in the implementation of the technologies we develop. To do this, we seek to involve our internal team and an external community in our work (this is where you come in)!
What emerged as unique about this event was the degree to which participants were willing to reflect on their own work and their own needs for change. In their stories, we saw hope for an approach to AI in education that would be rooted in partnerships and greater accountability to a shared educational vision.
Jeremy Roschelle chatted with Ole Molvig and Collin Lynch about ethical considerations associated with designing and using artificial intelligence (AI) in education, in the context of their shared work at the Engage AI Institute.
In this post, Dr. Quinn Burke, Director of Computational Thinking Research at Digital Promise, talks with Dr. David Touretzky, Professor in the Computer Science department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition at Carnegie Mellon University. Throughout their conversation, they discuss what education systems are currently in place within K-12 schools and the importance of teaching students about the disruptive technologies that are already present in their daily lives.
Pati Ruiz, Senior Research Scientist on Digital Promise’s Learning Sciences Research team, interviews Cindy Hmelo-Silver and Tiffany Barnes about how equity will be woven into the Engage AI Institute’s work.
Engaging at roundtables, school leaders from across the United States were enthusiastic about exploring the potential of AI. The leaders expressed a preference for a definition of AI that was less about human-like reasoning and more about how AI could assist teachers and students in pursuing educational goals.
Judi Fusco, Director of Emerging Technologies and Learning Sciences at Digital Promise, chats with David Crandall, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence at Indiana University Bloomington, to get to know each other as they work across the boundaries of disciplines in The National Science Foundation AI Institute for Engaged Learning.