Project Grant 2333098

The National Science Foundation awarded a $151,410 Project Grant under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) to the University of South Alabama. This grant aims to engage high-school students from North Dakota and Southern Alabama in learning about artificial intelligence (AI) by implementing and examining a culturally relevant project-based AI-integrated learning framework.

The project includes two key components: (1) training of high-school teachers, and (2) teachers' classroom implementation of AI-STEM integrated lessons in biology and pre-calculus courses. Seventeen teachers will participate in hands-on practices, workshops, reflection, and presentations. Researchers will use mixed-method design research to examine the teacher training outcomes. With scaffolding from researchers, teachers will develop and teach the AI-STEM integrated lessons at their high schools, while multimodal data collection and analysis will be used to research students' problem-solving skills, interdisciplinary knowledge, and classroom participation, as well as how these processes affect students' STEM and AI learning and interest development. The University of Maryland Baltimore County is participating as a sub-awardee, responsible for the multimodal data collection and analysis aspects of the project.