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Artificial Intelligence Explorations

and Their Practical Use in School Environments

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Chillicothe Middle School

For Melissa Englert, a teacher and innovation and learning coach at Chillicothe Middle School in Missouri, artificial intelligence presented an opportunity to add an exciting new participatory component for students in her global citizenship class.

The students were learning about the environmental costs of manufacturing blue jeans. AI gave them the opportunity to try to mitigate those costs by creating a chatbot to educate people on how to change their shopping and laundry habits using guidelines from the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Englert’s project with her students was part of her participation in the ISTE course Artificial Intelligence Explorations and Their Practical Use in Schools. The program introduces educators to AI and shows them how to incorporate it into project-based student learning.

I think AI can open the process of looking at how to apply information students have learned and to see it as a tool to learn more. Not only is there a learning aspect, but there is also a creative aspect in developing unique solutions to problems.

Melissa Englert

This case study is part of a GM grant-funded program, Artificial Intelligence Explorations and Their Practical Use in School Environments©.