Research Conversations: AI and Elementary Science Teaching and Learning (10.21.2024)

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the ways that science is taught and learned. Dr. Li will share insights from her research on AI-enhanced elementary science teaching and learning, drawing from several recent projects.

Tingting Li is an Assistant Professor of Science Education at the WSU College of Education. She received her PhD from Michigan State University in Educational Psychology and Educational Technology and a second PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Northeast Normal University. Her research explores the underlying complex learning process of building usable knowledge and how student engagement interacts with this process by leveraging state-of-the-art technologies such as AI. She designs learning environments and assessments that support students’ usable knowledge building as well as their psychological well-being (e.g., engagement, social and emotional learning).