Everything changes... even dissertation ideas

 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 Information Science and Education (ICISE-IE) (pp. 1661-1664). IEEE.
 
Lee, I., & Perret, B. (2022, June). Preparing high school teachers to integrate AI methods into STEM classrooms. In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Vol. 36, No. 11, pp. 12783-12791).
 
Timms, M. J. (2016). Letting artificial intelligence in education out of the box: educational cobots and smart classrooms. International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education, 26, 701-712.
(Interesting account of what was innovative in 2015-2016)
 
Uzumcu, O., & Acilmis, H. (2023). Do innovative teachers use AI-powered tools more interactively? A study in the context of diffusion of innovation theory. Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 1-20.
 
 
 
 
 

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