Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning: Culturally Responsive and Social-Emotional Classroom Practice in Grades 6-12 [Hardcover]

Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning?provides intentional approaches to the integration of artificial intelligence tools into middle and high school classrooms, specifically to foster equity and social-emotional wellbeing.?

As we move forward, the content in this book offers the opportunity to embrace and think interdisciplinary in the content provided in teaching and learning. In doing so, students gain computational skills and become better problem solvers in an AI world. Rather than avoid or ban AI tools in the classroom, rich interactions, discussions and problem solving can lend themselves to address societal and community needs. These interactions can offer teachers and educators the opportunities to include issues of ethical and responsible AI uses in the classroom.

Dr. Fay Cobb Payton, Special Advisor to the Chancellor for Inclusive Innovation, Director of the Institute for Data, Research and Innovation Science, Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, and Affiliated Faculty in the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers UniversityNewark, USA, from the foreword

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This book provides educators with a thoughtful and practical framework for integrating AI tools into culturally responsive teaching and social-emotional learning (SEL). Importantly, his book goes beyond surface-level technology integration, addressing the equity issues tied to AI access, while offering concrete strategies to enhance middle and high school English Language Arts and History courseshighlighting both the perils and promises that this ubiquitous technology brings. This guide empowers teachers to use AI as a tool to deepen human connections, foster cross-cultural communication, and support emotional growth in the classroom, highlighting how AI can complementnot replacethe critical relational aspects of teaching. A highly recommendlc}