UW–Madison’s Shamya Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, recently spoke with the Appleton Post-Crescent about how artificial intelligence (AI) is being integrated into classrooms and what it means for teachers and students. Karumbaiah In a Nov. 11 article, headlined “As AI use grows, here’s how area schools are …
Helping teachers examine and harness artificial intelligence to support their work is at the heart of a new fellowship offered by the UW–Madison School of Education. The Disillusioning AI for Teachers Fellowship, which launched this month, offers four in-depth sessions and robust out-of-class engagement opportunities aimed at increasing educators’ skill in using artificial intelligence thoughtfully, ethically, …
UW–Madison’s Shamya Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, was recently featured on Bloomberg’s “Wall Street Week” in a segment titled, “Can AI Replace Teachers?” The program, which aired on Oct. 12, examined how artificial intelligence is being used in classrooms across the country to help teachers tailor instruction …
UW–Madison graduate student Chaeyeon Kim received the award for Best Doctoral Colloquium Paper at the 11th International Conference of the Immersive Learning Research Network (iLRN) in June. Kim Kim’s paper, “A Comparison of Teachers and Students in Categorizing and Representing Geometric Conjectures using AR Simulations,” investigates how high school geometry teachers and students use augmented reality (AR) to …
UW–Madison’s Mitchell Nathan was appointed to serve on a National Science Foundation (NSF) steering committee focused on shaping the future of mathematics learning and education. Nathan Titled the Collaboratory to Advance Math Education and Learning (CAMEL), the committee met for two days in late July for a scoping workshop to identify major research questions and …
Shamya Karumbaiah, an assistant professor in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology, has been awarded new funding for her research aimed at identifying harmful biases in artificial intelligence tools. Karumbaiah Karumbaiah’s project will develop a framework to audit large language models (LLMs), which power AI applications, for such biases. The framework will make …
By Laurel White For the past 20 years, School of Education faculty member Sadhana Puntambekar has worked with teachers and middle school students across Wisconsin to build technology-enhanced learning environments for science learning and teaching, from solving complex design problems and writing about them to contrasting virtual and in-person lab experiments. Now, Puntambekar and a School of …
The Wisconsin State Journal utilized the expertise of UW–Madison’s Courtney Bell in a recent article about Madison East High School’s new “standards-based” grading system. Bell is the director of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) and a professor of learning sciences in the School of Education’s Department of Educational Psychology. She is currently engaged …
School of Education faculty member David Williamson Shaffer recently offered his expertise on artificial intelligence in and out of the classroom to news stories aired on CBS58 in Milwaukee and the statewide Spectrum News 1 network. Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences in …
School of Education faculty member David Williamson Shaffer recently lent his expertise on artificial intelligence and the changing landscape of education to two Wisconsin television news segments. Shaffer is the Sears Bascom Professor of Learning Analytics and the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Learning Sciences at the UW–Madison School of Education and a Data Philosopher …