This $812,312 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), aims to develop and research learning trajectories (LTs) to support middle and high school students' understanding of artificial intelligence (AI) concepts. The project will design and pilot test learning activities and assessments based on the LTs, offer teacher professional development, and research the effectiveness of the LT-based activities when implemented in classrooms. Key...
This Project Grant award of $200,000 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (47.076) program aims to promote AI readiness and democratize AI technologies for a broad spectrum of advanced cyberinfrastructure users and researchers. The key products and services provided under this 4-year award, which began on September 1, 2023, include: Developing a comprehensive suite of experiential learning modules, including flexible micro-modules and immersive extended reality experiences, to...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the development of a virtual classroom platform that uses large language model (LLM) simulated agents to facilitate collaborative learning of mathematical modeling for middle-school students. The $321,873 project aims to increase equitable access to effective mathematics education, particularly for students from under-resourced communities, by leveraging generative AI techniques....
This three-year, $516,058 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund the development of artificial intelligence (AI) curriculum modules integrated across high school core subjects and a professional development program for teachers. Led by the Concord Consortium, the project team which includes Carnegie Mellon University and North Carolina State University, will create a two-hour introductory AI module and three five-hour...
This Project Grant award of $899,979 from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund a three-year collaboration between the Concord Consortium and Perkins School for the Blind to develop an AI-powered, multimodal data exploration environment. The goal is to enable blind and low-vision students to meaningfully engage with data through voice commands, sonification, and AI-generated audible descriptions. The project team aims to transform the educational...
This $763,741 project grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program aims to better align how human and artificial intelligence (AI) models process language. The researchers at New York University will explore techniques to modify AI architectures, such as adopting semantic training objectives and leveraging causal intervention methods, to bring them more in line with how humans derive meaning from sentences and handle...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $156,000 to Northwestern University to rapidly develop and research a set of "unplugged" hands-on learning activities for teaching middle-school students about artificial intelligence (AI). The project aims to create an open-source repository of up to 15 hands-on, low-cost AI literacy activities that can be led by educators...
This $199,503 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will fund a large-scale, mixed-methods study to understand perceptions and use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in K-12 education. The one-year project will survey a nationally representative sample of parents, teachers, and youth to identify opportunities, risks, and supports needed for integrating AI-driven learning tools. The study will employ both...
This is a $200,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program. The grant will fund a collaborative research project titled "The AI Voyage: Integrating AI Literacy into Computer Science Curricula with Accessible Hands-On Learning Activities" at Georgia State University Research Foundation Inc. The project aims to develop a series of accessible, hands-on learning activities featuring artificial intelligence (AI) to be...
This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports Purdue University in developing an interactive virtual environment for artificial intelligence education. Funded under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076), the two-year project aims to create a real-time visualization tool to promote conceptual and procedural understanding of AI among 250 learners. Either immersive using VR headsets or on conventional displays, the tool will focus on foundational AI topics. Iterative...