🚀 Our Center Director Dr. Jing Liu will speak at the @aefpweb.bsky.social Connects Webinar Series on AI in Education on May 20, 2-3 p.m. EST. Registration link: aefpweb.org/ev_calendar_...

📘Can AI support instructional coaching? A new study of math coaches using automated feedback found it can save time, surface evidence, and deepen coaching conversations, but with one big pause: accuracy, especially around student talk. 🔍: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

📐 Teachers’ participatory design of digital math tasks matters. Engaging teachers in game-based mathematical task design supports deeper mathematical reasoning, pedagogical sensemaking, and integration of content and student knowledge. 🔍Full paper: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Are LLMs revolutionary tools or do they revive something much older? EDSI's Faculty Affiliate @scribnerumcp.bsky.social argues that AI classrooms echo medieval scholasticism: structured dialogue and efficiency -often at the expense of human judgment. 🔍: www.frontporchrepublic.com/2025/12/larg...

📊 New research: participatory design in data science education works. Centering students’ interests and voices reveals what truly engages them, shaping curricula that are relevant, meaningful, and student-centered. 🔍 Full paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

🎧 Training AI for classrooms is tough We introduce SimClass, a dataset with simulated classroom speech and game-engine–generated classroom noise. It closely matches real classroom conditions and helps build robust speech recognition models for education and beyond. 🔍: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.09206

New open-source Python library alert 🚨 Meet pairadigm, built by our Data Scientist Michael Chrzan. It uses concept-guided pairwise comparisons to help LLMs reliably measure abstract traits like reasoning, creativity, toxicity & emotion at scale. 🔍: github.com/mlchrzan/pai...

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🚨 New opportunity: Help build open-source speech recognition AI 🎙️📚 @drivendata.org is hosting a data science competition to advance automatic speech recognition (ASR) for early education. Two tracks, real impact, and $120K in prizes. Learn more & compete: kidsasr.drivendata.org

🔊 New Research: Vocal Entrainment in Conversations This study shows how speech alignment (entrainment) enhances trust & rapport in multi-party talks. Using AI models, it predicts speech patterns & reveals early signs of cooperation or conflict. 🔍: repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...

Thank you for highlighting our study findings@ The full paper can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

📢 Introducing EduCoder: an open-source tool for annotating educational dialogue at the utterance level. Built for classroom complexity custom codebooks, open + categorical tags, context-aware, & annotator calibration. 🔍: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.05385

🧮 What makes math teaching high-quality? Our team is using real classroom data + AI to find out. Backed by a $4.5M Gates & Walton grant, insights could transform teacher training, edtech, and policy by grounding them in evidence from real classrooms. terp.umd.edu/ai-goes-to-s...

Great teachers never stop learning! 🌱📚 The M-Powering Teachers Project uses AI to provide real-time, personalized feedback to educators, making learning more dynamic and supportive for teachers. Check out this video to learn more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBin... #EdTech #AIinEd #TeacherLearning

📄 New White Paper: A Framework for High-Quality Education Data in the Age of AI EDSI & RPPL interviewed 22 experts to: 🔹 Identify data best practices 🔹 Inform ethical, practical AI use 🔹 Ensure new education data reflect the nuanced realities of classrooms 🔍 Read more: edsi.umd.edu/publications...

📣 Congratulations to Accelerate's 2025 awardees for our Call for Effective Technology and Evidence for Impact grant programs! accelerate.us/press-releas...

🚀 Excited to team up with @accelerate-us.bsky.social's Call for Effective Technology! We are evaluating 2 edtech tools, Podsie, & Goblins, during the 2025–26 year. We hope to identify and scale strategies that improve student learning💡 🔍The press release: rb.gy/jbdcup #EdTech

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🗣️ Training speech models when good data is scarce? Try Weakly Supervised Pretraining (WSP) We develop a new approach, (WSP), to teach automated speech recognition (ASR) models to learn from the noisy stuff first, then fine-tune with accurate data. 🔍 Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.17088 #ChildASR

🚨 Can AI coach teachers in real classrooms? A new RCT with 224 Utah math & science teachers shows AI-powered feedback boosted use of deep, student-focused “focusing questions” by 20%! 📈 🔍 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EdTech #AIinEducation #TeacherPD #EdResearch

🎤 🗣️ ICYMI: On Sept 10th, we co-hosted the Inaugural International Workshop on Rethinking Children’s ASR for Education at UBuffalo. The event focused on advancing ethical & effective ASR tools for children’s learning. We are excited to pave the road for ASR innovation! Learn more: lnkd.in/e2BKDPUv

🎤 Can kids be reliably recognized in noisy classrooms? Saba Tabatabaee & colleagues find that finetuning speaker verification models with augmented children's speech slashes error rates by up to 50%. Smarter, noise-resilient ASR is within reach. 🔍 Read more: arxiv.org/abs/2505.20222 #ChildASR

✅ That’s a wrap on EDSI’s Summer Co-Learning Series! From research-in-progress to thought-provoking discussions, our weekly seminars turned into powerful moments of learning, feedback & connection. Huge thanks to everyone who shared, showed up, and sparked ideas! 💡🍽️

🎓 Can machine learning help provide equitable predictions for high school dropout? @anikaalam.bsky.social's dissertation digs deep into algorithmic bias, revealing how models can unintentionally disadvantage students from marginalized backgrounds. 🔍Read more: www.proquest.com/docview/3217...

🚨 Can AI coach teachers in real classrooms? A new RCT with 224 Utah math & science teachers shows AI-powered feedback boosted use of deep, student-focused “focusing questions” by 20%! 📈 🔍 Read more: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #EdTech #AIinEducation #TeacherPD #EdResearch

🏫📉 School closures are on the rise - but what if we could predict them years in advance? @thechrzanone.bsky.social & authors use machine learning to forecast mass school closures 5 years out, giving districts tools to act early and equitably. 🔍The full paper: edworkingpapers.com/ai25-1210

🧠💬 Can AI really replicate the richness of human thought? Jiseung Yoo & @scribnerumcp.bsky.social explore what LLMs can’t do - and why K12 education must stay rooted in embodied, social, and self-aware learning. Human-centered teaching matters more than ever. 🔍: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

💡Proud to partner with Guilford County Schools & amplify practitioner voices in research! 📣 3 amazing GCS teachers - Rachel Beverly, Rachel Borden & Mitchelle McLeod - brought powerful voices at the Stanford Practitioner Voices Summit to explore how AI & language tech can reshape math education.

💻Access to high school computer science = higher earnings 💵 Students offered a CS class in high school earned 8% more at their first job — and up to 14% for low-income, Black, and female students. 🔍 Read the full paper on @annenberginstitute.bsky.social: edworkingpapers.com/sites/defaul...

🚀 Excited to team up with @UBuffalo’s Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science to host a workshop on automated speech recognition (ASR) in education! 🎙️📚 We'll dive into how ASR can support learning and provide hands-on training focused on children’s speech. #childASR #edtech

Welcome to the Center for Educational Data Science and Education (EDSI)! Launched in May, our center focuses on AI and data science to help all learners thrive in an AI age. Learn more about our center with this article: www.govtech.com/education/hi... #AIinEducation #edpolicy #edtech