ISAT News

Our team members have developed a series of collaborative curriculum units, during which students develop, use and critique AI systems. iSAT researchers are in the classrooms collecting audio and visual data of Flagstaff students working through these units and then the data was used to train our AI Partner CoBi,...

Our team had the opportunity to present all of the progress we’ve made over the last year to the National Science Foundation during our annual evaluation the first week in May. Held at iSAT’s lead instituion, University of Colorado Boulder, this truly was a huge team effort! Some of the...

Our own Arturo Cortez was awarded a Research Development Award to further develop his proposal for a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellowship titled, “Co-designing robust teacher learning ecologies using everyday technologies: Developing speculative pedagogies in collaborative video game play.”

iSAT is so excited to be hosting two interactive booths at the Denver Public Schools Steam Expo this Saturday, April 29, from 9am to 3pm at the CSU Spur campus in north central Denver. This interactive event features a science fair, robotics competition, gaming competitions, STEAM career fair, music performances,...

iSAT’s William Penuel presented “Systems for Equitable Educational Assessment” at the 2023 Annual Meeting of The American Educational Research Association (AERA) in Chicago, IL, April 13-16. The AERA is a national research society striving to advance knowledge about education, to encourage scholarly inquiry related to education, and to promote the...

iSAT’s own Martha Palmer is first Woman to obtain a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from The University of Edinburgh ! Her research is focused on capturing elements of the meanings of words that can comprise automatic representations of complex sentences and documents. Co-Principal Investigator of Strand 1, Martha leads her...

Congratulations to iSAT Strand 3 team member Thomas M. Philip on his selection as one of 24 exemplary scholars to be named 2023 American Educational Research Association Fellows (AERA)! This prestigious award honors scholars for their exceptional contributions to, and excellence in, education research. Nominated by their peers, the AERA...

ChatGPT is making headlines everywhere for its ability to do just about anything and everything. The implications for an artificial intelligence platform with such a wide range of capabilities are huge, and this article goes into more detail about the concerns surrounding ChatGPT as well as the possibilities. Our Excecutive...

Strand 2 team member and Assistant Professor at University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Mike Tissenbaum, talks about how Artificial Intelligence in Education is changing the classroom landscape for both teachers and students here . He gives great insight on positive examples of how AI can empower teachers as well as...

Chelsea is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder who specializes in developing and validating natural language processing and speech-based tools. Her past research was focused on the detection of psychiatric and neurocognitive disorders, however she is excited to apply these skills within the domain of education. Chelsea...