Harvard Graduate School of Education
AIFoundry
Advocating for the rights of learners in the age of AI.
From the Foundry
AI + Education
Center Spotlight: Beck Tench, Project Zero
HGSE
Spotlight on Beck Tench's work at Project Zero's Center for Digital Thriving, exploring youth relationships with technology and AI.
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Faculty Researchers
9
Active Projects
266K+
Learners Reached
3
Research Labs
What We Do
Practice, innovation, and research
AI in education needs all three. Here's how we approach it.
Practice
Courses, tools, and hands-on support for educators figuring out how to use AI in their classrooms and districts.
Innovation
Student-led projects, monthly hackathons, and experiments that don't always work. That's the point.
Research
Six faculty studying how AI affects learning, from 5-year-olds to mid-career professionals. What works, what doesn't, and why.
From the Community
What we're learning right now
Faculty, students, and alumni talking through the hard questions in real time.
Weekly Blackboard
What's one thing you tried with AI this semester that surprised you?
12 responses this week
Question
How are you handling AI detection in student work?
Marcus Chen · 11 replies
Collaboration
Looking for collaborators: AI-assisted peer review in teacher prep
Ling Zhang · 9 interested
From Our Labs
What our labs are working on
AI tutoring deployed to 266,000 students. Reading companions that rival human partners. Ethics frameworks for K-12 classrooms.
Workforce Development
Expert Learning in the Age of AI
What does expertise look like when AI can do the routine work? The Next Level Lab is building new learning ecosystems.
Tina Grotzer
Early Childhood
AI Reading Partners for Young Learners
Conversational agents that make storytime richer, with results rivaling human reading partners.
Ying Xu
AI Ethics
Graidients: Making AI Ethics Visible
A framework and tool helping educators navigate the ethically unclear areas of generative AI in K-12 classrooms.
Center for Digital Thriving
New & Notable
Ideas & insights
Recent writing from HGSE faculty on AI and learning.
Article
Center Spotlight: Beck Tench, Project Zero
Spotlight on Beck Tench's work at Project Zero's Center for Digital Thriving, exploring youth relationships with technology and AI.
Article
Why Education Research Matters: AI and Children
Exploring why rigorous education research is essential as AI tools increasingly target young learners.
Article
Developing AI Ethics in the Classroom
How the Graidients tool helps K-12 educators make ethically unclear areas of generative AI visible and discussable in the classroom.
Meet the Faculty
Faculty Researchers
Chris Dede
Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies
Leading voice on AI in education with decades of experience in learning technologies. Co-lead on HGSE's AI Literacy Tutorial. Featured on Harvard EdCast discussing how educators can prepare for an AI-augmented world. Research spans immersive learning, digital teaching platforms, and AI's role in transforming education.
David Dockterman
Faculty Member
Background in learning design at scale. Key contact for the LEAP Initiative helping faculty integrate AI into teaching. Developed a custom AI tool for analyzing linguistic characteristics of math word problems to improve accessibility for English Learners. Co-lead on the HGSE AI Literacy Tutorial.
Elizabeth Bonawitz
Professor of Education
Co-lead on HGSE's mandatory AI Literacy Tutorial alongside Chris Dede and David Dockterman. Research focuses on how children learn through exploration and explanation, with emerging work on how AI tools intersect with children's natural learning processes.
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