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As we enter our fifth year as an Institute, we’re excited to expand the iSAT blog. One of our principal goals is to address the central challenge of how to promote deep conceptual learning via rich socio-collaborative learning experiences for all students. We are pursuing this challenge through the development of AI partners that are intended to provide real-time classroom support and to augment collaborative learning. We are going to use this space to look at different topics in the area of Artificial Intelligence in education (AIEd) and to provide a behind-the-scenes look to show how we conduct our work.

From October through April, our blog will feature around 25 posts covering a range of topics. These will include technical discussions such as “Multimodal Large Language Models: iSAT's work on building discrete multimodal language models to facilitate multiple speech processing tasks” and “Gesture Detection: Identifying key moments when a gesture occurs and determining what the gesture was” as well as broader topics in AI like “Where Does my Data Go? A discussion on security measures for participants’ data” and “AI to Support Collaboration vs Generative AI (ChatGPT)”.

These almost weekly posts will cater to different audiences including parents, school administrators, teachers, developers, students, researchers and policy makers. Each post will be authored by team members from our various research “strands.” These strands are integral to the development of the AI Partners, each focusing on a specific area of research. In addition to covering the different strands, many blog posts will feature cross-strand collaboration, showcasing how these different research areas intersect and come together at iSAT. The diverse range of topics will provide a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the work of our Institute.