Research & Innovation
We engage in innovative research and development focused on CS and AI instructional approaches that support increased teacher effectiveness and student learning through interdisciplinary efforts with researchers, technology companies, and K-12 school partners.
Our Projects
Camp DIALOGS
Camp DIALOGS will provide technology-rich learning opportunities for middle school students to design and develop spoken conversational apps using computer science. Spoken conversational apps include today’s voice assistants and chatbots such as Siri, Alexa, Google Home, and many more.
Time4CSforAll
Time4CSforAll aims to ensure all students have the opportunity to engage in computational thinking and skill building by bringing CS into the formal education environment. Our work leverages interdisciplinary learning to provide elementary teachers with the curriculum, tools, and instructional resources they need to make integrated CS accessible, engaging, and personally relevant for all their students.
INVITE Institute
The INVITE Institute is the shared vision of 24 researchers from seven U.S. universities and 2 companies in the United States and is our answer to the question, “What can AI do to help achieve Education for All?” INVITE seeks to reposition AI as a powerful tool to promote fairness in technology-enhanced K-12 STEM learning by producing intelligent learning technologies that understand and support skills known to underlie effective learning. The institute is designed to serve as a nexus for building capacity and collaboration among researchers, and as a resource for schools and teachers interested in leveraging advanced STEM learning technologies. The INVITE Alliance spans 10 states across the U.S.
C-COI Tool
The Collaborative Computing Observation Instrument (C-COI) allows researchers to study the learning processes that K-12 students engage in while doing computational thinking and programming activities.
MFlow
MFlow is a flow-based programming language for making music and sound compositions. You can drag blocks of sound into the screen, put sound recordings in them, connect them with arrows to create sequences, loop them to create rhythms, and manipulate them in many different ways.
MFlow and other projects are listed on the AICE Lab’s Projects page.
UDL4CS
UDL4CS is a Research-Practice Partnership that brings together researchers and practitioners around the shared problem of practice to provide teachers with the tools necessary to meaningfully include students with disabilities in computer science education.
