iSAT News

July 29, 2024: Strand 3 Lead Tamara Sumner talks AI and its role in schools in The Economist!

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 21:39:11 +0000

July 29, 2024: Strand 3 Lead Tamara Sumner talks AI and its role in schools in The Economist! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/29/2024 - 15:39

Our Strand 3 lead Tamara Sumner talks about how iSAT is designing AI partners to help transform schools in this article in The Economist. Along with being a Co-Principal Investigator at iSAT, Tamara Sumner is the Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science and a Professor in Computer and Cognitive Science at the University of Colorado.

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July 22, 2024: iSAT Participates in Local STEM Summer Camp

Anonymous — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 06:00:00 +0000

July 22, 2024: iSAT Participates in Local STEM Summer Camp Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/22/2024 - 00:00

iSAT Interns helped lead a week-long STEM camp held in conjunction with a local school district last week. Over 100 students attended and learned about iSAT’s curriculum such as the Self Driving Cars unit as well as AI, cybersecurity, robotics and more! Our interns were excited to share what they have learned over the last several months with the next generation.

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July 15, 2024: iSAT Co-Authors Win Best Paper Award!

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July 15, 2024: iSAT Co-Authors Win Best Paper Award! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/15/2024 - 16:43

Several iSAT team members co-authored the paper Propositional Extraction from Natural Speech in Small Group Collaborative Tasks which was awarded Best Student Long Paper at the Educational Data Mining Conference (EDM 2024) held in Atlanta, Georgia. Congratulations to all of the Strand 1 members who contributed to this!

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July 1, 2024: Strand 1 Featured in CSU Online News Site!

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July 1, 2024: Strand 1 Featured in CSU Online News Site! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 07/01/2024 - 00:00

Our Strand 1 team plays a very integral role in developing our AI partners. CSU College of Natural Sciences online news featured a great article on Assistant Professor Nikhil Krishnaswamy and his team of researchers and how they are working on ways to better integrate an understanding of nonverbal behavior, speech and direct action into human-AI and human-robot collaboration scenarios. Check out the full story here!

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June 17, 2024: Workshop at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2024

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June 17, 2024: Workshop at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute 2024 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/17/2024 - 00:00

iSAT affiliated Research Scientist Robert Moulder hosted a two day workshop on Bayesian Analysis at the Learning Analytics Summer Institute (LASI). This conference was hosted by The Society for Learning Analytics Research (SoLAR), which is an inter-disciplinary network of leading international researchers who are exploring the role and impact of analytics on teaching.

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June 10, 2023: iSAT's Jeff Bush Presents at AI Workshop During ISLS 2024

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June 10, 2023: iSAT's Jeff Bush Presents at AI Workshop During ISLS 2024 Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/10/2024 - 00:00

Jeff Bush, theme lead and Strand 3 member, presented at a workshop at ISLS 2024 (International Society of the Learning Sciences) titled AI Augmented Learning for All: Challenges and Opportunities in Buffalo, New York in early June. The objectives of the workshop was to provide the learning sciences community with the opportunity to learn more about how they can engage with key AI Institutes (iSAT being one) in order to shape their research programs to more strongly align with ongoing and emerging research in the field.

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June 3, 2024: iSAT’s High School Interns Present Their Work to iSAT Team Members!

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June 3, 2024: iSAT’s High School Interns Present Their Work to iSAT Team Members! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 06/03/2024 - 00:00

The iSAT High School Internship Program had 7 interns from two local school districts present their internship research projects. During four, 10–15-minute, presentations, the interns covered what they’ve been working on as part of iSAT’s different research strands.

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May 27, 2024: New Paper Alert!

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May 27, 2024: New Paper Alert! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 05/27/2024 - 00:00

One of our Strand 1 theme leads, Jacob Whitehill, recently had a paper published in the Journal of Educational Data Mining. Titled "Automated Evaluation of Classroom Instructional Support with LLMs and BoWs: Connecting Global Predictions to Specific Feedback” you can read the paper in its entirety here. Congrats Jacob!

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April 29, 2024: iSAT Presents to the NSF!

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April 29, 2024: iSAT Presents to the NSF! Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/29/2024 - 00:00

This week, iSAT had its annual site visit with the U.S. National Science Foundation. Our team members shared in-depth details of progress made during the fourth year as an Institute including updates on both of our AI partners - JIA and CoBi. The iSAT team is excited for what’s to come in Year 5!

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April 22, 2024: iSAT Presents to our External Advisory Board

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April 22, 2024: iSAT Presents to our External Advisory Board Anonymous (not verified) Mon, 04/22/2024 - 00:00

iSAT Strand and Theme leads presented iSAT’s year 4 accomplishments to our valued External Advisory Board this week. iSAT members presented an overview of accomplishments since the last EAB meeting, plans for the upcoming year, and offered space for EAB members to ask questions about iSAT’s progress.

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