AI in schools

Marco Kalz is full professor of digital education at the Heidelberg University of Education. His research interest lies on the use of open education, pervasive technologies and formative assessment to support (lifelong) learning and knowledge construction. He has published more than 140 peer-reviewed publications.

Marco is associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies, and editorial board member of Educational Technology Research and Development and the Journal of Computing in Higher Education. He is a fellow of the Interuniversity Center for Educational Sciences (ICO) and the Dutch research school on information and knowledge systems (SIKS). He is director of the study program E-Learning and Media Education and co-director of the Heidelberg Education for Sustainable Development Center.

I work at IMAGINARY designing and developing interactive exhibits, as well as many other types of strategies for communicating mathematics and STEAM. Depending on the project, I might work on the concept, text, art, design, or software, and I like coming up with unique solutions that come from being able to approach a problem from both ends simultaneously.

I have a decade of experience as a full-stack freelance web developer and another decade of experience as a hardcore (C++ under UNIX and Win32 environments) commercial software developer in the interactive telephony world. I worked on projects at large multinationals, small companies, non-profits, NGOs, and different government offices. I did significant work in the visual art world (mainly with Fundación START in Argentina).

I studied physical theater and accumulated over a hundred hours on stage with several independent plays in Buenos Aires. I use this experience in my work, as physical theater gives a great framework to approach visitor experience design and user engagement from a holistic and body-first perspective.

Claudia Ruhland is a research assistant specialising in AI and media didactics at the Free University of Berlin. She holds a PhD and studied Adult Education (M.A.) at Humboldt University and Social and Business Communication (Dipl.) at the University of the Arts (UdK) in Berlin. Her research interests are design and performance of innovative educational media and media education. She is also an alumna-fellow of the KI-Campus.

Bianca Violet studied at the Technical University of Berlin and graduated there in 2009 with a degree in mathematics, majoring in differential geometry. Parallel to her studies, she also trained as a film and video editor and then, fascinated by IMAGINARY, started working for this unique mathematics communication project. Since 2016, she has been permanently employed by IMAGINARY as Chief Creative Officer and - typical for a project that grew out of science - is responsible for all kinds of major and minor tasks.

Anja Gärtig-Daugs studied health economics at the University of Bayreuth with focus on public health and information systems. She also received her doctoral degree (Dr. rer. pol.) in economics from the University of Bayreuth.

After completing her studies, she worked as an epidemiologist at the Population-based Cancer Registry of Bavaria, as a research assistant and lecturer at the Chair of Population Science at the University of Bamberg and as a consultant for social volunteerism at the Malteser Hilfsdienst e. V. From 2012 to 2017, she worked as research associate within the projects "Alumnae Tracking", "Mobile Computer Science Learning Lab" and "Computer Science in Elementary Education" and was a tutor for the seminar "Gender Aspects in Computer Science" at the Chair of Applied Computer Science / Cognitive Systems at the University of Bamberg. In 2018, she assisted the Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Informations Systems and Applied Computer Sciences in the field of quality management and course evaluation. From 2018 to 2020, she was part-time professor for health management in the field of distance learning at the International University Bad Honnef (IUBH). In 2019, she returned to the University of Bamberg to establish the digital learning lab for elementary education (ElementarLLab) at the Center for Teacher Training (ZLB). She heads the Competence Center for Digital Learning and Teaching at the Center for Teacher Training and is associated member of the research group "Elementary Computer Science Education".

Her research interests lie in the field of empirical research, computer science in elementary education, digital teaching and learning, and digital health.

Alexander Schnücker is a research assistant at the Center for Digital Systems at Freie Universität Berlin.

Dr. Aljoscha Burchardt is Principal Researcher, Research Fellow and Deputy Spokesperson of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Berlin. He is an expert in language technology and artificial intelligence. He was also an expert member of the Enquete Commission "Artificial Intelligence" of the German Bundestag.

Dr. Susanne Podworny is a research associate in the Didactics of Mathematics working group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Paderborn.

Yannik Fleischer is a research assistant in the Didactics of Mathematics working group at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics at the University of Paderborn.