ImageSTEAM

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Description

ImageSTEAM is a freely available computer-vision professional-development and curriculum programme in which teachers learn and implement no-code, browser-based computer-vision lessons using tools such as Teachable Machine, Pixlr, GauGAN, and Tinkercad.

Components

• ImageSTEAM computer vision PD intervention using free online tools (pixlr, Teachable Machine, GauGAN, Tinkercad) with teachers co-creating and delivering lessons to middle school students: The intervention was a two-to-three-week professional development experience in which in-service middle school teachers from Title I schools learned computer vision technologies and then taught lessons to middle school students. Tools used were free, browser-based, and required no programming: "pixlr (an image editing software)", "Google's Teachable Machine (a tool which allows students to capture image or audio data, define a class for the data, and train a classification-based neural network)", NVIDIA's GauGAN, and Tinkercad, plus custom Google Colaboratory notebooks demonstrating vision algorithms. Curricular materials are freely available at https://www.imagesteam.org. (Kurz et al. (2026))

Claims

• After a two-to-three-week computer vision professional development program, 13 of 18 (72%) of middle school teachers' computer vision constructs shifted clusters, which the authors read as restructured perceptions (pre/post, no comparison group) [+M]

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Key Sources

• Kurz, T. L., Jayasuriya, S., Swisher, K., Mativo, J., Pidaparti, R., & Robinson, D. T. (2026). Computer vision versus human vision: analyzing middle school teachers' construct restructuring following computer vision professional development. Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-026-10594-2

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description	ImageSTEAM is a freely available computer-vision professional-development and curriculum programme in which teachers learn and implement no-code, browser-based computer-vision lessons using tools such as Teachable Machine, Pixlr, GauGAN, and Tinkercad.
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generated	by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-28
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