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AI literacy 3 learner modeling 3 K-12 2 chatbots 2 generative AI 2 literacy 2 ICTD 1 behaviour change 1 block-based programming 1 collaborative learning 1 computational linguistics 1 conversational AI 1 dialogue 1 elementary 1 ethics 1 higher education 1 intelligent tutoring 1 middle school 1 rapport 1 social robots 1 summer camps 1 teacher partnership 1 teacher professional development 1

ExLAIM

A four-week intensive for teachers and undergraduates on generative AI, from prompt engineering to classroom ethics.

Active 2026–2028

generative AI teacher professional development ethics

ElementaryAI

Bringing foundational AI literacy to elementary students by having them design conversational companions for their own story characters.

Active 2025–2028

AI literacy elementary literacy teacher partnership

Project DIALOGS

Conversational AI learning experiences for middle schoolers, built around AMBY — a development environment designed for young people.

Active 2021–

AI literacy K-12 conversational AI middle school summer camps

BotBuilder

A no-code environment where teachers and students design their own AI chatbots, with features that help learners spot and address hallucinations.

Active

generative AI AI literacy chatbots K-12

Linguistic Alignment in Collaborative Dialogue

Studying syntactic and lexical alignment in middle-school pair programming dialogue, and how it relates to partner satisfaction.

Active

collaborative learning dialogue computational linguistics

Rapport with a Social, Teachable Robot

Modelling how middle school students build interpersonal closeness with a teachable robot over repeated sessions.

Completed 2019–2020

learner modeling rapport social robots

StudyBuddy

A Slack chatbot helping first-year CS students build study habits, developed from interviews with peer tutors and student surveys.

Completed 2019–2021

behaviour change chatbots higher education

Allo Alphabet

Modelling children's phonological awareness in an IVR and SMS literacy system deployed in rural Côte d'Ivoire.

Completed

literacy learner modeling ICTD

PRIME

An adaptive learning environment supporting undergraduates learning computer science through block-based programming.

Completed

intelligent tutoring block-based programming learner modeling
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