Nexus Point for Collaborative Efforts
A key part of the Institute’s mission is to serve as a national nexus point for empowering stakeholders with diverse identities and interests—researchers, K–12 educators, community members, and industry affiliates—to envision, co-create, critique, and apply student-AI teaming technologies in their schools and communities. To function as a nexus point for diverse collaboration, the Institute links multiple nationally-distributed organizations together through our three core research strands to integrate foundational and use-inspired AI research and ethical pedagogies. The three Strands are composed of researchers, faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and students from nine nationally-distributed institutions; K–12 school partners from multiple school districts; community-based organizations; and industry affiliates.
iSAT hosts an interactive workshop at Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference 2023
The following are a few of the specific ways we serve as a national nexus point.
We identify and create opportunities to engage with the community in events such as demonstrations at school fairs, speaking about AI at high schools, and engaging university undergraduate capstone teams in co-designing and building components with iSAT.
We foster educational outreach through programs with our partner schools, through teacher workshops, and through student internship programs. We communicate and disseminate our research through journal publications, conference papers, and designing and holding workshops.
iSAT members work with other research centers to identify common research interests, coordinate research, and identify potential commercialization opportunities. Team members of iSAT sit on scientific panels to share their research findings.