Discussion Prompts

Notes out of Discussion

Where do you see our field going with this topic?

- Everywhere.

- So many faculty positions want AI in education

- NSF grants want AI

- 10 years ago, emphasis was on AI as a tool for adaptive learning, but now there is interest in teaching AI to children

- data literacy → AI literacy, prompt engineering

- more accessible and user-friendly now (e.g., K-6 teachers can use now)

- for researchers, can use AI for qualitative research to identify topics and be the co-coder with human coders

- use Sasquatch to create theory

- teaching interventions in classrooms

What are the successful examples of using these in education?

What challenges/concerns/difficulties do you see with this topic in the field of education?

- researchers and practitioners may lose some learning and improvement by not going through the struggle with coding data

- there are still challenges among teachers for basic technology use—need to help teachers use this tool

- could be IRB issues for putting data into a public or proprietary system

- teachers don’t know how to use or understand dashboards

- broad ethical concerns

- how to regulate ethics and data sharing

- privacy and security

- vulnerability to hackers and deficient security levels

- invisible bias (no positionality statement from AI)

- unclear theoretical foundations (not clear)

- we are still far away from general AI (still in narrow AI)

- stochastic parrot

- amount of energy to store all the data we are creating (and all the energy to compile the model)

- need to use for more than just assessment tool

- people just want to play with technology, not become masters of design

What research studies or activities are you considering related to this topic?

- no critical changes to educational research, still same topics: motivation, self-regulation, collaboration

- compare results from deductive and inductive coding with AI

- AI interventions

- digital portfolios as assessment

- how students go to AI tools when encountering problems—self-regulated learning

- AI as navigational tool but also figure out boundaries for using this tool—technology should never be in the center; humans should be the decision-makers

- teachers’ continued role in the classroom

- ethics and critical work

- responsible AI use (explainable AI)

- technology adoption and acceptance

- introducing AI in elementary school

- prompt engineering (using Midjourney to create art with young kids)

What are the resources (books, journals, articles, websites, conferences, etc. ) related to this topic that you are aware of?

- code.org/learn

- AI in Education conference

- Journal of AI in Education

- Computers & Education: AI

- special issues of many journals