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The Secret to Successful AI Integration in Education is Teachers!

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An image of a diverse group of students working collaboratively at a classroom table using laptops. A smiling teacher stands nearby, offering guidance. One boy in the foreground is focused on his laptop, which is decorated with colorful stickers including “Supreme,” “Digital Bridge,” and cartoon characters. Other students are writing or typing, and educational posters and a world map are visible on the classroom walls.

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

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

What To Expect from EngageAI This Year

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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

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