New AI Education program in partnership with The Eddie and Jules Trump Foundation!
We are thrilled to partner with The Eddie and Jules Trump Family Foundation to launch an exciting educational project aimed at preparing young students for the AI era.
Congrats to Elad for winning the FGS PhD Prize!!! 07/26/2024
Congratulations to Elad who has been selected by the Feinberg Graduate School (FGS) Steering Committee to receive the Elhanan A. Bunde Award for 2024. The award is given to Elad for his research on "The Wisdom of Crowds in Education: Integrating Teachers and Students in Pedagogical Information Creation Processes to Support Personalized Teaching in Blended Learning Environments". Elad is the 5th recipient of the FGS PhD award in the history of the science teaching department!.
Congrats to Yael and Tanya for BEST PAPER AWARD @CSEDU24. 05/15/2024
Congratulations to Yael and Tanya for receiving the "Best Paper Award" at the 16th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU2024), for their paper on XAI for Unsupervised Machine Learning!
CASEd AgriTour (מתנדבים בעגבניות). 12/13/2023
From the laboratory to the field: on a rainy winter day, we put on work clothes and went out for a day of volunteering in agricultural work, pruning and thinning cherry tomatoes. We concluded the event at a cafe boutique nearby. Yummy!
Congrats to Yael and Shai for winning highly prestigious fellowships! 12/10/2023
Yael has been awarded the ISF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Social Sciences.
Shai has been awarded the Levtzion Scholarship for outstanding doctoral students from the periphery. Both are highly selective grants, and both Shai and Yael are the *first* awardees of these grants from the department of science teaching.
Congrats, and Well Done!
Honored to receive a MoST grant for studying NLP & Assessment! 12/05/2023
Our group, in collaboration with Prof. Edit Yerushalmi (Physics Ed) and Prof. Ron Blonder (Chemistry Ed), is among the winners of the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology's (MoST) grants for Hebrew and Arabic NLP, for studying applications of Hebrew and Arabic NLP to Assessment in science education.
Elad's paper on Social Recommendations accepted to EC-TEL'23 . 06/07/2023
Elad's paper on how teachers for learning materials in online learning environments, and how to support them via social recommendations, was accepted to the 18th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL'23), to be held in September in Porto, Portugal
Abigail's paper accepted to BEA'23 06/07/2023
Abigail's paper on using alephBERT for automated assessment of open questions in Biology was accepted to the 18th Workshop on Innovative Use of NLP for Building Educational Applications (BEA'23), to be held in Toronto, Canada on July. This work is in collaboration with Beata Beigman Klebanov from ETS and Moriah Ariely from the Biology education group.
CASEd members and friends enjoying EDM'23 @Banglore, 07/21/2023
Great EDM'23 conference and fantastic food at Banglore.
And we even got the best poster award for Tanya's and Moriah's work on automated short answer scoring in Turkish!
Our work + interview with Giora in Haaretz newspaper. 02/02/2023
https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/education/2023-01-31/ty-article-magazine/...
Presenting the lab's technology to UNESCO's AI ED forum, 12/06/2022
We were invited to present the lab's AI tools for teachers at UNESCO's International Forum on AI and Education:
https://aiedforum.org/#/home
CASEd@AIED'22, 12/01/2022
CASEd lab @AIED'22: A lot of fun, beer, and research!
Honored to be awarded an ISF grant for NLP & Assessment!, 8/01/2022
We are glad to be among the recipients of the ISF grant, together with Prof. Anat Yarden, to work on applications of NLP for Formative Assessment in Science Education.
Our team is a Winner of the Learning Engineering Tools Competition!!!, 06/30/2022
A team from Weizmann's Science Teaching Dept, led by Dr. Giora Alexandron and PhD student Tanya Nazaretsky, is one of the 30 winning teams of the Learning Engineering Tools Competition, who are addressing pressing challenges and opportunities in education: http://bit.ly/3xx9qdo
Student retreat in the Golan Heights, 06/17/2022
CASEd lab @AIED'22: A lot of fun, beer, and research!
AI and the Next-Gen Conference was a huge success, 04/13/2022
A festive conference moderated by the journalist Dror Globerman, and with the participation of leading AI researchers, including Weizmann Institute’s Profs. Eilam Gross and Eran Segal, celebrated the successful completion of the first year of a pilot program for teaching AI in high schools, developed and led by Shai Perach, as part of his PhD on teaching machine learning in high schools. More about the conference: https://stwww1.weizmann.ac.il/aiconf2022/
Congrats Tanya for two full papers accepted to LAK'22!, 03/05/2022
Congrats Tanya for two full papers accepted to LAK'22! "An Instrument for Measuring Teachers’ Trust in AI-Based Educational Technology" centers on the human factors that shape teacher:AI partnership, Together with Prof. Mutlu Cukurova from UCL. "Empowering Teachers with AI: Co-Designing a Learning Analytics Tool for Personalized Instruction in the Science Classroom" centers on co-designing AI-powered EdTech for teachers, together with Carmel Bar and Dr. Michal Walter. Well done Tanya!
Congrats to Moriah & Tanya for the publication of their NLP paper!, 01/12/2022
Congratulations to Moriah and Tanya for the publication of their paper "Machine Learning and Hebrew NLP for Automated Assessment of Open-Ended Questions in Biology" on The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education (IJAIED)! To read the paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs40593-021-00283-x
Foodies group tour to Levinsky market, 11/25/2021
A food trip to Levinsky market and farewell party to Sa'ar.
Confirmation bias and trust: Teachers' attitudes towards AI-based EdTech, 10/26/2021
An interesting work led by Tanya, in collaboration with Prof. Mutlu Cokurova from UCL, is starts to reveal the human factors that underlie teachers' trust in AI-powered EdTech: https://edarxiv.org/dzqju/