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
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
Co-PI Jeremy Roschelle and Pati Ruiz from Digital Promise led a highly interactive session with school superintendents and leaders in Birmingham, AL.
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.