Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning

Culturally Responsive and Social-Emotional Classroom Practice in Grades 6-12

Marlee Bunch, Brittany Collins, Marlee S. Bunch, Brittany R. Collins

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9781040342541
• Edition: 0
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Educational Psychology

Leveraging AI for Human-Centered Learning provides intentional approaches to the integration of artificial intelligence tools into middle and high school classrooms, specifically to foster equity and social-emotional wellbeing. The overlap of AI with today's schools poses pivotal questions about ethics, morality, inclusion, and human learning at a time when students are already reckoning with public health crises, systemic injustice, and other connected challenges. This book helps teachers examine the pros and cons of artificial intelligence—as used by both educators and students—as well as its implications for meaningful culturally responsive teaching and social-emotional learning efforts. Featuring activities, lesson plans, and discussion and writing prompts for use with adolescent learners, each chapter offers concrete pedagogical approaches and instructional innovations that align technological changes with learning objectives in ways that advance, rather than replace or neutralize, attention to equity and well-being.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Foreword
• Meet the Authors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 What Is AI, Anyway? An Overview for Educators
• 2 Applying AI to Human-Centered Pedagogy Part I: Culturally Responsive Teaching
• 3 Applying AI to Human-Centered Pedagogy Part II: Social-Emotional Learning
• 4 Using AI to Integrate Cultural Responsiveness and SEL Into English Language Arts
• 5 Enhancing Equitable History Instruction Through AI
• Epilogue: Looking Ahead
• Appendices
• Afterword