Teaching, Learning and Behavior

Yong Zhao, Foundation Distinguished Professor of Education at KU, is co-author of "Agents of Impact: How Education can Empower Students to Change Themselves, Their Communities and the World," a book that aims to help teachers and communities embrace new technology and ideas to help every student realize they can make a difference.

A new paper from a psychologist at the University of Kansas examines how language shapes our emotional experience of the world. Katie Hoemann, assistant professor of psychology at KU, recently published her findings in the peer-reviewed journal Communications Psychology.

Researchers in the Center for Innovation, Design & Digital Learning at the University of Kansas have published a set of guidelines for responsible implementation of artificial intelligence in schools from preschool through higher education.

Kansas educators are exploring how artificial intelligence can transform teaching and learning. The Center for Reimagining Education (CRE) is partnering with districts to personalize education and prepare students for the future.

Yong Zhao, an education scholar at the University of Kansas, argues in a new article that education should move away from the idea of meritocracy, which fosters unnatural competition among students and unequal outcomes, to the Human Interdependence Paradigm, in which schools help every student use their strengths to guide their own education and solve problems for the world to reach their unique potential.

"On Bigotry: Twenty Lessons on How Bigotry Works and What to Do About It," a new book by Nicholas Ensley Mitchell of the University of Kansas, takes a critical, nonpartisan look at bigotry to help readers better understand it. Mitchell writes that bigotry is taught, and, as an education scholar, believes anything that is taught has curriculum that can be analyzed.

The tool can help identify strengths in very young students and allow parents, teachers and others to start building on them from an early point in their lives and education. Previous strengths research had focused on older students and adults.

A new study appearing in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS One from a psycholinguist at the University of Kansas explores how ChatGPT, the popular artificial-intelligence chatbot, responded to nonwords.

A KU study working with an English language arts class found that in addition to helping students learn how to think through complex topics, teachers and students can work together to form their own social construction of thinking and how they think about topics in their classes.

KU researchers Lisa Dieker and Maggie Mosher have launched "AI Advocates," a short-form podcast that helps teachers navigate classroom artificial intelligence tools in five minutes or less. Each episode breaks down one tool’s uses, benefits and considerations, focusing on free and accessible options.