The Rise of Artificial Intelligence: Exploring Ethics of AI with Youth

Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses one of the most complex scientific and engineering challenges in history (West & Allen, 2018; Anderson et al, 2018). With the rapid development of technology, AI permeates essentially all sectors of the economy and society. From speech recognition and natural language processing used to run chatbots or social media bots to […]

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) (R25) program has announced its FY 2019 competition. This year, the NIH SEPA intents to commit approximately $2 million in funding to support educational activities that help in the training, and recruitment of a diverse workforce of the biomedical, behavioral and/or clinical science fields […]

The Arts & Social Emotional Learning

Exploring Partnerships in Creativity We at Rockman et al have been studying the role and impact of incorporating visual, musical and performative arts in K-12 education. Through independent evaluations of education programs led by the San Jose Museum of Art, SFJAZZ, and Silicon Valley Creates, we’ve examined what happens when outside teaching artists partner with […]