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For more than a decade, a handful of theoretical models have shaped a substantial amount of the research related to students’ emotional experiences during learning. This research has been productive, but articulating the underlying implicit assumptions ...

Student affect is widely recognized as a major influence on learning gains and engagement, which has led to the development of many automated affect detectors. However, in order to respond effectively to student affect, we must know how students ...

As AI tools become increasingly integrated into everyday life, there is a need to expand resources for K-12 AI education. In this work, we introduce a game-based learning activity focusing on teaching reinforcement learning concepts to middle school ...

In an age where artificial intelligence (AI) plays an increasingly pivotal role in daily life, it is essential to equip our youngest learners with foundational knowledge of AI. The AI by 8 project aims to empower kindergarten through second grade ...

Engaging middle school students in complex computational topics such as AI can pose unique challenges to educators, ranging from simplifying potentially difficult mathematical material to maintaining student interest in the subject. One approach to help ...

Recent years have seen increasing awareness of the need to engage young learners in computational thinking (CT). Integrating digital storytelling, where students create short narratives, and CT offers significant potential for promoting interdisciplinary ...

Game-based learning environments can foster student engagement in learning, offering an important venue for exploring epistemic emotions. Data from this study were collected as part of a larger effort to develop an in-game self-reporting tool for ...

Widespread and accessible use of artificial intelligence (AI) has escalated dramatically in recent years, with teachers being among those who need to understand, use, and teach these concepts and technologies. However, teachers' access to training and ...

Recent years have seen growing awareness of the need to advance AI literacy for K-12 students to empower them in understanding, evaluating, and using AI. Automated problem solving is a fundamental aspect of AI, enabling machines to mimic human ...

Identifying misconceptions in student programming solutions is an important step in evaluating their comprehension of fundamental programming concepts. While misconceptions are latent constructs that are hard to evaluate directly from student programs, ...

With the growing prevalence of AI, the need for K-12 AI education is becoming more crucial, which is prompting active research in developing engaging AI learning activities. In this paper, we present our work on a game construction toolkit for middle ...

As the presence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies increases throughout everyday life, so does the need to engage rural communities in AI learning experiences, as these communities often have limited access to such educational opportunities. ...

With the growing prevalence of AI, the need for K-12 AI education is becoming more crucial, which is prompting active research in developing engaging and age-appropriate AI learning activities. Efforts are underway, such as those by the AI4K12 initiative,...

The current study compared American, Korean, and Indonesian middle and high school students’ CS attitudes. Concurrently, this study also examined whether the items in the CS attitudes scale exhibit country and gender measurement biases. We gathered data ...

Recent years have seen growing awareness of the potential digital storytelling brings to creating engaging K-12 learning experiences. By fostering students’ interdisciplinary knowledge and skills, digital storytelling holds great promise for ...

Digital storytelling in combination with makerspace activities holds significant potential to engage students and support their learning. When students play, such as through makerspace activities, they engage in critical thinking and problem ...

Children encounter and use artificial intelligence (AI) with regularity, but the depth of their understanding of AI is often limited. In service of growing an AI and technology-literate K-12 population, it is important for young learners to engage in AI ...

The ubiquity of artificial intelligence (AI) in everyday life suggests the need to ensure young students know about AI, its uses and limitations, and its benefits and risks, while enabling them to develop expertise in using AI-driven technologies. To ...

There is a growing need for 21st-century workers to be digitally literate and to possess computational thinking and collaborative problem-solving skills. Computer-supported collaborative learning (CSCL) focused on computational thinking can guide ...

The ever pervasive nature of artificial intelligence (AI) in our world necessitates a focus on fostering an AI literate society. Young children, those aged 11 to 14, are at a critical point in developing their dispositions toward and perceptions of ...