Projects
CAREER
The CAREER project addresses STEM education, creative thinking, and AI literacy challenges through ACT-GenAI (Advancing Creative Thinking, Physics Learning, and AI Literacy with GenAI), which pioneers the first pedagogically grounded, AI-powered, multimodal creativity and learning coach called Little c.
ProductiveMath
ProductiveMath, an AI-powered platform that aids Productive Failure problem generation. ProductiveMath is supported by over $451,563 in funding from the Gates Foundation.
Creative
Creative explores large multimodal models (e.g., ChatGPT-4o) to automate creativity assessment and game-level generation in the context of Physics Playground—training AI to assess the creativity of human-authored levels.
Storiza
Storiza is a reading app that leverages children’s creativity to facilitate reading practice and improve ORF. Developed for the NSF/Digital Promise VITAL Prize Challenge.
Physics Playground
A 2D web-based game designed to teach conceptual physics to 8th–9th graders. Supported by over $4 million in funding from the NSF.
EarSketch
A free web-based platform that helps students learn core CS topics through music and music technology in a fun, engaging environment. Supported by the NSF and several partners.