MLFTC shares research in technology and education

Faculty, staff, students and alumni affiliated with Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College participated in 18 sessions at the Society for Information Technology in Teacher Education 2024 conference in Las Vegas. Many of the presentations focused on ways that Generative AI is supporting and creating new challenges for teaching and learning.

SITE is an international, academic association that promotes research, scholarship and innovation across its interdisciplinary membership. The March 25-29 event included representation of students from MLFTC’s Learning, Literacies and Technologies, PhD program, and featured a keynote by Punya Mishra, MLFTC professor and associate dean of scholarship and innovation.

Topics shared by MLFTC-affilated attendees included:

• Technology Infusion Characteristics in Preparation Programs: Create a Three-Year Adoption Plan
  Teresa Foulger, professor, and Ray Buss, professor
• Mapping the True Nature of Generative AI: Applications in Educational Research & Practice and Part 2 Mapping the True Nature of Generative AI: Applications in Educational Research & Practice
  Punya Mishra, professor and associate dean of scholarship and innovation; with Melissa          Warr, assistant professor at New Mexico State University and a MLFTC alumna
• AI and the Art of Teaching: Enhancing or Eroding Educational Creativity?
  Punya Mishra, professor and associate dean of scholarship and innovation; Danah Henriksen,  associate professor, and others   
• Possibilities and Concerns: An Emerging Framework of Considerations for Generative AI Adoption
  Teresa Foulger, professor, and others
• Student Perceptions of Artificial Intelligence
  Jennifer Werner, sr. instructional designer senior in learning technologies; Tracy Arner, assistant director of LEI in psychology; Janel White-Taylor, clinical professor
• PART 1: Exploring New Horizons: Generative Artificial Intelligence and Teacher Education
  Punya Mishra, professor and associate dean of scholarship and innovation, and others
• Back to the future. Reconsidering the roots of creativity and future possibilities for education and teacher education.
  Danah Henriksen, associate professor, and others
• What Does Google Know? Plagiarism, ChatGPT, and Higher Education
  Punya Mishra, professor and associate dean of scholarship and innovation; Nicole Oster, a grad research assistant pursuing a PhD  in Learning, Literacies and Technologies
• Teaching, Teacher Education, and Practical Wisdom in the Age of Generative AI
  Danah Henriksen, associate professor; and Punya Mishra, professor and associate dean of scholarship and innovation, professor
• Value-added Networked Participatory Scholarship in Education Scholars’ Use of Social Media: An Analysis of the #TPACK Network on Twitter
  Teresa Foulger, professor, and others
• The Dueling Ns: Designing a Double-Entry Survey to Meet Two Research Needs for a GenAI Study
  Teresa Foulger, professor, and others
• An exploration of methods for developing K12 teachers’ TPACK
  Teresa Foulger, professor, and others
• The AI Playground
  Janel White Taylor, clinical professor; Jennifer Werner, sr. instructional designer in learning technologies, and others
• The Characteristics and Indicators of Technology Infusion Programs: Opportunities for Research and Implications for Program Design
  Teresa Foulger, professor, and Ray Buss, professor, and others
• Digital Pathways to Difficult Histories: Analyzing Social Studies Teachers’ Internet Search Processes When Preparing to Teach Difficult History Topics
  Leanna Archambault, professor; Lauren McArthur Harris, associate professor; Catharyn Shelton, assistant professor at Northern Arizona State University and a MLFTC alum;  Jami Carmichael, a grad research assistant pursuing a PhD in Learning, Literacies and Technologies, and J'Shon Lee, grad research assistant pursuing a PhD in Learning, Literacies and Technologies, and others
• The design of a TPACK survey for Gen AI: A preliminary study
  Rezwana Islam, a grad research assistant pursuing a PhD in Learning, Literacies and Technologies, and Punya Mishra, professor and associate dean of Scholarship and Innovation
• Examining College Students’ Perceptions of AI Chatbots as a Source of Feedback in Language Learning
  A team of ASU students presented along with MLFTC alum Kristin Elwood, who is a clinical assistant professor and director of digital initiatives and instructional design at the School of International Letters and Cultures