Weekly iSAT News

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...

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 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.

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!

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...

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.

Our iSAT Intern team members have been meeting every Friday to finalize the the summer camp for middle school students. These summer camps, held in conjunction with one of our partners school districts, give students a chance to explore, and learn more about, AI.

iSAT’s Sensor Immersion team held its last professional development session with one of our partner school districts this week. The teachers, along with our team members, co-designed our self driving cars unit, which will be implemented in classrooms soon!

Dr. James Pustejovsky, Strand 1 co-lead and TJX Feldberg Professor, Department of Computer Science, Volen National Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University, spoke at CU Boulder's Institute of Congitive Science's Spring Colloquium on Friday, April 5th. His talk, titled: Modeling Theory of Mind in Multimodal Dialogue, focused on Theory of...

The Denver-based nonprofit Words Beyond Walls visited iSAT last week. Our team members presented some of the work they are doing and then the attendees reflected and presented back to us their recommendations and suggestions.