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

Want to design better AI tools for education? Listen to the students!

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By Megan Humburg1, Ph.D., and Dalila Dragnić-Cindrić2, Ph.D. 1Indiana University; 2 Digital Promise Key ideas: Our teams at the EngageAI Institute are working to build a narrative-centered, AI-driven educational game where students can investigate scientific problems by exploring a game world, chatting with different characters, and gathering evidence to solve a mysterious illness outbreak.  As … Read more

School District Leaders Discuss AI for Improving Teaching

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.