Southeastern Regional Robert Noyce Conference 2024

Teachers are becoming overwhelmed and anxious by discussions surrounding Artificial Intelligence(AI) due to concerns about students becoming reliant on AI and neglecting learning. From chatbots and virtual assistants to personalized learning, AI is reshaping what teaching in the digital era looks like. In this session, we'll explore the dynamic intersection of artificial intelligence and education and navigate the transformative potential of AI in classrooms. Session attendees will familiarize themselves with some basic AI tools and discuss how they can be integrated into their classrooms.

The AMSTI collaboration provides professional development sessions in which teachers deepen their cross-curricular content and develop pedagogical strategies essential to implementing STEM teaching practices and the 3-Dimensional standards of the NGSS. Unlike the typical program, the AMSTI-UAB partnership follows the teachers into the classroom, thus assuring them that they are not alone on a classroom island but have ongoing support and social anchorage in the AMSTI family.

During the opening months of 2020, the United States government initiated a disjointed, state-by-state series of social and economic mitigation measures in response to the quickening spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus (hereafter pandemic).  This study, which is part of a broader study, aimed to document and critically analyze the mathematics socialization of three black fathers to their children during the distance learning portion of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Based on related literature, we characterize mathematics socialization conceptually as the interaction of roles, practices, behaviors, and perspectives (see Saleem, Howard, Schmidt-Temple, Langley, & Howard, 2024).  Participants engaged in 2 one-hour interviews and one focus group consisting of all participants of the larger study.  From the data analysis, two large themes emerged.  One theme consisted of the cross-generational gap of beliefs towards mathematics homework.  The second theme compares and contrasts the mathematical experiences and interactions that these fathers have between public and charter schools.