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Compose With AI
The purpose of this project is to rapidly develop a web-based platform, called Compose With AI, to address the urgent need for educational tools to support educators in teaching with and about AI. The Compose With AI platform guides students to evaluate AI-generated content and use factual information to compose common types of science-focused writing (e.g., composing arguments, claims or solutions related to science topics). Simultaneously, the Teacher Dashboard shows the process that each student uses to determine for what purpose they want to use AI, how they generate and modify prompts to match their goals, how they evaluate AI content, and how they integrate AI-generated ideas and content with their own ideas. The final result is not just a written essay, but a map of the student’s thinking process as they work. The objectives for this one-year project are to: Objective 1: Develop a new digital platform (Compose With AI) to guide students in critically evaluating and ethically integrating content produced by AI into their science-focused writing. Objective 2: Field-test the Compose With AI platform with students in grades 4-8 and their teachers to evaluate the usability and acceptability of the digital platform. Objective 3: Determine which approaches and strategies featured in Compose With AI inhibit and enhance students’ abilities to integrate AI-generated content into their writing. Objective 4: Revise and finalize the Compose with AI platform.
Pillar 1: Innovative Use of Technologies in Learning and Teaching
We are designing and developing a platform for evaluating and using AI-generated content.
Pillar 2: Partnerships for Career and Workforce Preparation.
N/A- This is a RAPID project.
Pillar 3: Strategies for Equity in STEM Education
Compose With AI provides opportunities to teach critical evaluation skills for advanced uses of AI and helps teachers integrate AI tools into instruction, which may increase opportunities for all students and lessen the likelihood of a second level digital divide.
Discipline(s)
Emerging Tech (Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Blockchain)
Target Gradespan(s)
Middle school (6-8)
Target Participant(s)
Youth / students
Project Setting(s)
Formal Education
Category
RAPID