Who: Anna Rafferty
When: Thursday April 16th, 3:30-4:30pm
Where: Anderson 329
What: Case studies in building GenAI systems to support education: Challenges and opportunities
Generative AI (GenAI) seems to be everywhere, and too often, the framing around GenAI systems lacks nuance, offering them either as a universal solution to any problem or as a solely dystopian force. Part of the problem is a lack of principled evaluation: criteria for success are neither articulated nor evaluated. In this talk, I’ll share my work on two projects that make use of GenAI to support education: one on enabling a GenAI chatbot for middle school math to generate plots, intended to promote students’ conceptual understanding, and the other exploring GenAI for writing-based assessment. Both projects highlight the importance of iterative, human design and layered evaluations, which can themselves be made more scalable using LLM; further, they offer insight into research leveraging GenAI as tools while maintaining human-centered goals.
As always, you don’t have to be a CS major to attend CS department events. Any members of the Carleton community with any interest at all in CS are more than welcome to show up!
Join us for conversation, community and snacks!