9. Critiques

Week 9 (March 30)

Due: C. Prototype

External experts critique student projects.

Critiques will run from 1:30-3:30pm. Each student will present for a maximum of eight minutes, and then there will be eight minutes of feedback and discussion.

Brief: Students are using conjecture mapping to organize a design-based research project exploring applications of generative AI in education. Each student will briefly introduce the goals of their project and the conjectures guiding their design process, as well as initial user research they have conducted, before demonstrating a working prototype. Students will close by outline a planned field study in which they will empirically explore one of their conjectures. The goal of these mid-semester reviews is to get feedback from a range of experts on steering their project.

Critics

• Dr. Chris Hoadley, Professor of Learning Sciences at UB's Graduate School of Education; director of UB's Institute for Learning Sciences.
• Kevin Cleary, Clinical Associate Professor of Management Science and Systems; director of MS in Management Information Systems (MIS) and BS in Information Technology Management (ITM) programs; former UB Information Security Officer
• Raj Suchak, founder, Brightroom.ai.

• Large Language Models in Education
• Assignments
• Schedule
• 1. (Snow day)
• 2. Introductions
• 3. Design frameworks
• 4. Designing AI tools
• 5. Designing for/in context
• 6. How do LLMs work?
• 7. Prototyping
• 8. Planning a field study
• 9. Critiques
• 10. Field study design
• 11. Quantitative data analysis
• 12. Data analysis workshop
• 13. Writing workshop
• 14. LLMs in Education Expo