{"683308":{"#nid":"683308","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Teachers Across Multiple States Prepare to Bring AI Lessons into the Classroom","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEighty teachers from four states recently completed intensive training on how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to middle schoolers, part of a growing initiative to make AI education more accessible and engaging for students across the country.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe AI4GA program, launched through a National Science Foundation grant and now supported by Google, continues to grow through expanded teacher training and curriculum development. It was initially led by Christina Gardner-McCune (University of Florida), Dave Touretzky (Carnegie Mellon University), and Bryan Cox (Georgia Tech). The curriculum was co-designed with educators and faculty, including Georgia Tech\u2019s Judith Uchidiuno.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003ENow in its fifth teacher cohort, AI4GA is focused on upskilling educators, many of whom don\u2019t have a background in computer science. Participants in the latest group included science, English, math, and social studies teachers from Georgia, Florida, Texas, and New York.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWe did a really good job with Georgia, so now we\u2019re scaling up,\u201d said Cox, Kapor Fellow in Georgia Tech\u2019s Constellations Center for Education in Computing.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe curriculum introduced the cohort to machine learning, automated decision-making, natural language processing, and other foundational concepts in AI. They also learned about AI applications, including autonomous robots and self-driving vehicles.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.cc.gatech.edu\/news\/teachers-across-multiple-states-prepare-bring-ai-lessons-classroom\u0022\u003ERead the full story here from the College of Computing \u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EEighty teachers from four states recently completed intensive training on how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to middle schoolers, part of a growing initiative to make AI education more accessible and engaging for students across the country.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Eighty teachers from four states recently completed intensive training on how to teach artificial intelligence (AI) to middle schoolers, part of a growing initiative to make AI education more accessible and engaging for students across the country."}],"uid":"27513","created_gmt":"2025-07-25 21:27:24","changed_gmt":"2025-07-25 21:27:53","author":"Walter Rich","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","location":"Atlanta, GA","dateline":{"date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2025-07-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"677497":{"id":"677497","type":"image","title":"AI Teacher Training","body":"\u003Cp\u003ETeacher Training for AI Lessons\u003C\/p\u003E","created":"1753478597","gmt_created":"2025-07-25 21:23:17","changed":"1753478692","gmt_changed":"2025-07-25 21:24:52","alt":"AI Teacher Training","file":{"fid":"261400","name":"AIcopy3.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/25\/AIcopy3.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2025\/07\/25\/AIcopy3.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":61352,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2025\/07\/25\/AIcopy3.jpg?itok=lSiDSmWR"}}},"media_ids":["677497"],"groups":[{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188084","name":"go-ipat"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39501","name":"People and Technology"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}