Jeffrey (Jeff) Bush Tayne
- Associate Research Professor
- INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE
- UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER
Jeff's research focuses on the intersection of technology, STEM teacher learning and professional development with sub-topics of mathematics education, computational thinking, physical computing, formative assessment, complex instruction, Artificial Intelligence, user experience research, compassion, and equity.
At NSF iSAT, Jeff is a theme lead for the MOSAIC group as well as the Sensor Immersion and Self-Driving Cars Units that are part of Strand 3. The Sensor Immersion curriculum is designed with the intent to immerse K-12 students in the fundamental concepts of AI, engage in computational thinking, and gather data about the world around them. As the lead author of the Self-Driving Cars curriculum, Jeff worked with teachers to co-design a hands-on unit focused on an engineering challenge and AI literacy related to autonomous vehicles. Students explore the question of how to help self-driving cars make safe and fair decisions to get people where they need to go. This work involves developing curriculum and supports for physical computing engineering projects, teacher professional learning, and AI Partner integration.
Jeff also leads institute-wide integration efforts to synchronize and study the interactions between the AI Partner CoBi and curriculum routines, generalizable patterns of instruction and learning. By working with teachers to design synergies between NSF iSAT’s AI Partners and everyday realities of classrooms, this work helps increase the ways that NSF iSAT’s tools realistically and effectively support K-12 education.