Kate's Take

 I'm still not finding a whole lot of information about how STUDENT are encouraged to use AI in classrooms, which is an area of focus I'm interested in.  Today, I'm going to do some searching for articles around this topic to see what I can uncover in this area.  Saini, M., Juyal, Y., Mahendru, O., & Kumar, B. V. (2024, January). AI in Classrooms. In 2024 IEEE 1st Karachi Section Humanitarian Technology Conference (KHI-HTC) (pp. 1-7). IEEE.   Winkler, R., & Roos, J. (2019). Bringing AI into the classroom: Designing smart personal assistants as learning tutors.   Sumakul, D. T. Y., Hamied, F. A., & Sukyadi, D. (2022). Artificial Intelligence in EFL Classrooms: Friend or Foe?. LEARN Journal: Language Education and Acquisition Research Network , 15 (1), 232-256. (Interesting article discussing the negative perceptions of AI in some educators)    All three of these articles were what I was looking for - and I'm pleased that two of the three ar...

 Prior to this week, I've been feeling increasing discomfort with some of the research questions I had been working with.  Multiple speakers in my 795 Dissertation Prep class had me questioning my choices and really unsure that the direction I was heading was where I wanted to go.  So, Dr. Bonk and I had a discussion and decided that it would be more in line with interests to make a few changes and focus on innovation using AI in Middle Grade teaching AND to open up the data collection to multiple school districts(pending approval from districts and IRB).  I feel much more settled with this and that the information collected will be useful to those interested in studying innovative ideas as well as classroom teachers who are looking to try a few ideas of their own.  Zhang, Y., Ning, Y., Li, B., & Liu, Y. (2021, November). An innovative classroom teaching technology assisted by artificial intelligence of things. In 2021 2nd International Conference on Infor...