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Title: Co-Designing an AI Tool to Support Discourse Based Math Instruction in a High-Dosage Tutoring Context
TalkMoves is an AI assistive tool that provides automated feedback to educators to support their daily teaching practices. While originally designed for classroom math teachers, this tool can be useful in a broader context. The University of Colorado Boulder and Saga Education formed a co-design team tasked with re-contextualizing TalkMoves for coaches of novice math tutors to use in their ongoing professional development. To effectively adapt an existing technology to a new problem space, the co-design team iteratively exchanged ideas of what exactly TalkMoves could achieve, as well as the specific needs of the coaches. Facilitators used strategies such as communal orientation, expansive dreaming, backcasting, and revoicing to promote productive collaboration. Three main goals emerged: maximize opportunities for user agency, center design around goal setting, and integrate the tool into the existing workflow. Any adaptation of an AI tool would benefit from this approach.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2222647
PAR ID:
10617768
Author(s) / Creator(s):
;
Editor(s):
Clarke_Midura, J; Kollar, I; Gu, X; D’Angelo, C
Publisher / Repository:
International Society of the Learning Sciences
Date Published:
Page Range / eLocation ID:
277-280
Format(s):
Medium: X
Location:
Buffalo, NY
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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