Chenyang Xu is a PhD candidate in the College of Education at UMass Amherst, researching educational technology, generative AI, and AI literacy. He has contributed to the NSF-funded CSforALL project and co-edited two award-winning open educational resources on K-12 social studies and media literacy with more than 1.14 million views. He has presented at AERA, ISTE, SITE, and MassCUE and serves on the editorial review boards of Digital Learning in Teacher Education and AI Enhanced Learning.

Chenyang is offering a 1:1 Connection at the MassCUE Fall Conference

Areas of expertise: Generative AI, AI literacy, equitable computer science education, AI in teaching and assessment

Talk with me about:
Evaluating whether AI chatbots support real learning or create an "illusion of learning"
Using Study and Learn modes in tools like Gemini, Claude, Copilot, and Perplexity
Prompting strategies that help AI scaffold student thinking instead of giving answers