Learning Innovation Seminar
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LIVE Ignite Talks - Tracking Empathy Through Gaze and Decoding Learning's Hidden Curriculum
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Wednesday April 8 | 12p-1p | 1400 18th Ave S A2009
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Join us Wednesday where members from the second cohort of the Ignite Tech Grant winners show us the latest in their innovations. Grant awardees received dedicated development time from LIVE’s Research Engineer, Albert Na, who is turning their learning technology ideas into reality. Read the previews of the their projects below and join us Wednesday to learn more. Pizza and drinks will be served.
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Seeing Eye: Tracking Empathy Through Gaze
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Peter Chesney | Collaborative Humanities Postdoctoral Program | Arts & Science
Seeing Eye is an interactive video experience that is the latest addition to LIVE’s eye-gaze tracking platform. The installation tracks users’ gaze as they view a historical photograph from Special Collections depicting Buddy, the nation’s first trained guide dog, walking through Vanderbilt and Nashville with Morris Frank, a Vanderbilt undergraduate and founder of The Seeing Eye, in 1929. Each user sees the same image twice, once with audio descriptions and once without, while heat maps track how attention is distributed between the dog and human figures, revealing whether audio description shifts focus during this human-canine interaction. The experience compares what sighted users notice independently in the photograph versus what additional details they discover when their gaze is directed to specific elements.
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Math Mysteries: Decoding Learning's Hidden Curriculum
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Joanne Golann, Associate Professor of Leadership, Policy & Organizations | Bethany Rittle-Johnson, Professor of Psychology | Peabody College
This project focuses on making large-scale, real-world learning visible through AI-assisted video analysis, drawing on over 11,000 hours of in-home recordings from the New Jersey Families Study that capture how young children learn in everyday family interactions. At its core is the development of a system that enables researchers to iteratively refine and test prompts for coding rich video data, validating AI-generated interpretations against human annotations. As prompts are adjusted and compared, the system helps researchers assess how subtle differences in framing shape what the AI detects as “learning,” particularly in domains like early mathematics. In doing so, the project opens new avenues for studying home-based learning, enabling fine-grained, scalable analyses that can deepen understanding of learning in context and advance rigorous, AI-supported research methods.
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Demystifying AI in Education
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Human-Centered AI for Education Student Expo
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April 20, 2026 | 1p-3p | LIVE Lobby | 1400 18th AVE S
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| Graduate students from LIVE faculty member Golnaz Arastoopour-Irgens' Demystifying AI in Education course will be presenting their final projects were they developed AI-focused apps for education/learning/educational research.
In the class, masters and PhD students critically examined AI as a socio-technical system shaping educational research, teaching, and policy. Through historical, theoretical, and ethical lenses, students analyzed how AI reconfigures learning, labor, data, and power in educational institutions, with particular attention to generative AI and data-driven systems.
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Drawing on these lenses, students were tasked with designing and creating AI-focused applications for use in teaching, learning, or educational research contexts. They will be presenting their work through interactive digital demonstrations.
Please stop by to support the graduate students, hear about their work and enjoy some light refreshments.
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New GenAI Writing Competition Theme
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Join the Peabody Library each month for an exciting new challenge that brings together creativity and cutting-edge technology by inviting students to co-create short writing pieces using generative Al tools like Gemini, Amplify, ChatGPT, and Claude.
This month's topic is Fool the Reader and challenges students to write a haiku about April Fool's Day. Create a 3-line haiku inspired by pranks, surprises, playful deception, a cleaver trickster or anything in between. Draw from your own experiences or think about others real or fictional!
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Collaborate with your favorite Al writing tools to craft your piece, then submit your work at any point before the end of April. Winning submissions (based on both judges and student's selections) will receive prizes! Full details in the poster above or for more information, visit the Peabody Library or reach out to Cazembe Kennedy.
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| April 15
Domain-General Associative Learning Can Explain (what looks like) Sophisticated Action Understanding and Causal Reasoning in Children
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Deon Benton, Peabody College Psychology & Human Development
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April 15 is the final LIVE Learning Innovation Seminar for the semester. Stay tuned for the announcements of our summer events.
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Explore the Spring 2026 LIVE Learning Innovation Seminar Series at the link below
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You can find the latest information about the LIVE Learning Innovation Incubator and our Learning Innovation Series on our website. Got this announcement forwarded to you? Sign-up for our mailing list to receive invitations to our events and find out about our latest initiatives.
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