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Crane Research Forum: The Double-Edged Sword of AI Use: Implications for Early Childhood Education (Zoom)

Join us virtually for the October Crane Research Forum as Dr. Jennifer Chen discusses the positive and negative aspects of utilizing artificial intelligence for early childhood education and children’s learning.

Dr. Jennifer Chen, professor and chair of the Department of Early Childhood Education at Kean University

With the rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) use, it is important to examine how AI intersects with early child care and education. In this session, Dr. Jennifer Chen will explore both the positive and negative aspects of utilizing AI for teaching and children’s learning, with a focus on its appropriate, responsible, and ethical use, while also recognizing concerns about its misuse and overuse. This examination will lead to a discussion of the potential implications of AI for early childhood education, including promoting equitable access to AI for children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Dr. Chen earned her doctorate in human development and psychology from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education. Her research interests lie at the intersection of early childhood education and psychology, and her recent work has shifted to fostering better understanding of AI and its implications for education. Dr. Chen is highly respected as a scholar both internationally and nationally and has authored or co-authored more than 80 scholarly publications, including three books. She is an award-winning researcher, a distinguished scholar and professor, and a research mentor. She was recently honored with a 2023 Outstanding Early Childhood Teacher Educator award from the National Association of Early Childhood Teacher Educators Foundation.

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K-12 Teacher Pipeline By the Numbers

Please join Dr. Brendan Bartanen, Assistant Professor of Education Policy at the University of Virginia for a discussion on how to build a stronger K-12 teacher pipeline in the US.

Please read the following publication in the American Educational Research Journal authored by Dr. Bartanen before attending the event:

Bartanen & Kwok (2023). “From Interest to Entry: The Teacher Pipeline From College Application to Initial Employment”

Bio 

Dr. Brendan Bartanen

Brendan Bartanen is an assistant professor of education policy at the University of Virginia. His research aims to increase our understanding of the labor market for principals and teachers. In particular, he examines the intersections among educator turnover, measures of effectiveness, high-stakes evaluation systems, and educator diversity. He was awarded the 2019 New Scholar Award from the Association for Education Finance and Policy and the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association (Division L).

His work has been published in leading journals across education, public policy, and economics, including the American Educational Research Journal, Educational Researcher, the Journal of Human Resources, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management. His current projects study the validity and reliability of principal value-added models, the pipeline into teaching among high school and college students, and early career teacher skill development.

Brendan began his career as an 8th grade science teacher in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned a B.A. in Economics from Pomona College, an M.Ed. from Arizona State University, and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Policy Studies from Vanderbilt University.

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Fall 2023 Speaker Series: Choosing to Learn: The Value of Autonomy in Post-Secondary Education (Zoom)

Friday, September 22, 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Daniel Oppenheimer, Professor of Social & Decision Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: Choosing to Learn: The Value of Autonomy in Post-Secondary Education

Please join us for an invited talk by Dr. Danny Oppenheimer, professor at Carnegie Mellon University, for an invited talk on Friday, September 22 from 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm.

Dr. Danny Oppenheimer

Dr. Danny Oppenheimer

Abstract

Despite a large literature demonstrating the importance of agency/autonomy in student motivation and achievement, there has been little focus on developing specific, practical, and implementable interventions that promote autonomy in educational settings. If anything, many practices endorsed by university teaching and learning centers, such as mandatory attendance, mandatory drafts, and syllabus quizzes, serve to undermine feelings of autonomy. Here, we briefly review the literature on the benefits of promoting agency, provide several concrete teaching strategies for doing so, and provide evidence of their efficacy. Agency-promoting teaching practices have the potential to improve student outcomes both in the classroom (i.e. more motivated students who consequently learn more) and beyond.

Bio

Danny Oppenheimer is a professor at Carnegie Mellon jointly appointed in Psychology and Decision Sciences who studies judgment, decision making, metacognition, learning and causal reasoning, and applies his findings to a diverse array of domains, such as charitable giving, consumer behavior, education, electoral outcomes, and how to trick students into buying him ice cream.

He is the author of over 50 peer-reviewed articles and books including “Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System that shouldn’t work at all works so well” and “Psychology: The Comic Book Introduction”.

He has won awards for research, teaching, and humor, the latter of which is particularly inexplicable given his penchant for truly terrible puns.

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Crane Research Forums Spring 2022 – Changes in Alcohol Use and Parenting Behaviors during COVID-19: Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Assess Real-Time Behaviors

When: Wednesday, April 6 from Noon to 1 p.m. 

Where: Online via Zoom

Each semester, the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy features research on emerging or key topics affecting children. The Spring 2022 line-up seeks to further our understanding on how to improve academic outcomes for all children as well as how the pandemic is impacting families of young children. These virtual events are free and open to all, but registration is required.

COVID-19 has been a difficult time for parents as they had to adjust to virtual school for their children, often while managing their own careers and the safety of those in their household. New research from Dr. Bridget Freisthler, shows that mothers, especially those of young children, reported higher levels of stress and also appeared to be drinking more alcohol during this time. The study examines the changes in alcohol use and parenting at three time points, the first being the initial stay-at-home orders in Ohio, among a convenience sample of parents.

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Crane Research Forums Spring 2022: Executive Functions and Academic Outcomes (Virtual)

When: Wednesday, March 2 from Noon to 1 p.m. 

Where: Online via Zoom

Each semester, the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy features research on emerging or key topics affecting children. The Spring 2022 line-up seeks to further our understanding on how to improve academic outcomes for all children as well as how the pandemic is impacting families of young children. These virtual events are free and open to all, but registration is required.

Executive functions are one of the most investigated variables in both cognitive science and education given its high correlation with numerous academic outcomes. Given its moderate relationship with reading and mathematics, some efforts have ensued to train executive functions in hopes that these trainings would translate to improved skills in domain specific areas, like reading and mathematics. Hear Dr. Dana Miller-Cotto present on prior and current work demonstrating the relations between reading and executive functions as well as mathematics and executive functions in children from kindergarten to third grade. During this forum, she will also theorize why these relations may exist for all children with and without learning difficulties and provide insights on what findings from executive function trainings may tell us about these skills.

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Crane Research Forums Spring 2022: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Student Learning in Ohio (Virtual)

When: Wednesday, Feb. 2 from Noon to 1 p.m. 

Where: Online via Zoom

Each semester, the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy features research on emerging or key topics affecting children. The Spring 2022 line-up seeks to further our understanding on how to improve academic outcomes for all children as well as how the pandemic is impacting families of young children. These virtual events are free and open to all, but registration is required.

Drs. Vladimir Kogan and Stéphane Lavertu conducted detailed analyses of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected student learning using data from Ohio’s state tests in the spring of 2021. Hear an overview of COVID-related learning disruptions for different student subgroups, district types, and modes of learning, as well as discuss new evidence on the impacts of online and hybrid learning on student learning gains in third-grade English and language arts.

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Get to Know Metro (Virtual)

Interested in K-12 outreach or educational research? Learn about the diverse STEM school right here on our campus, Metro Early College Middle/High School, as you take part in a virtual “Get to Know Metro” event. You will interact with a live panel of current Metro students and watch a newly created video tour.

Note: This is NOT an event for prospective students/parents, but for Ohio State faculty and staff to learn about how they might collaborate with Metro.

You will receive a Zoom invitation prior to the event. Please direct all questions to Nicole Luthy.

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Fall 2021 NSF Virtual Grants Conference: Registration Opens September 8, 2021 at 12pm EST

Save the Date! Join the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the Fall 2021 NSF Virtual Grants Conference, to be held during the week of October 4-8, 2021.

Registration will be free of charge and opens on Wednesday, September 8 at 12 p.m. EST. We anticipate the sessions will reach capacity very quickly, so we encourage you to register as soon as possible. Click here to be notified when registration opens.

In the meantime, please feel free to check nsfpolicyoutreach.com for the most up-to-date information and view recordings of sessions from previous conferences. You may also view the Spring 2021 Virtual Grants Conference recordings on our YouTube page. For those who cannot attend the live conference, all recorded conference sessions will be available on-demand shortly after the event and posted on our website and our YouTube page.

NSF EHR Townhall – Data Science in Education

The National Science Foundation’s Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) invites you to participate in a virtual town hall meeting to stimulate a national conversation on the topic of Data Science in Education.  Each day, there is more accessible data than there was the day before, and a professional skillset is emerging to meet the needs of a dynamically growing industry.  This town hall meeting will explore Data Science and its impact across all levels of education from K-12 through higher education, including community colleges, minority serving institutions, and graduate institutions.

With speakers and open discussions, we will explore:

  • Data Science research across disciplines and fields
  • Ethical practices and approaches to Data Science
  • Teaching and Learning Data Science
  • Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in a ‘Data Science for All’ movement

The outcomes of this meeting will include a white paper that will capture the themes from these topics which can be used to inform future work in the field.

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A Zoom meeting link and password will be sent to you after your registration is confirmed.

Hosted by all four NSF EHR divisions: DGE, DRL, DUE, and HRD

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