U of M's IGDILab named a winner of the Tools Competition

The IGDILab has been announced as a winner of the 2023-24 Tools Competition. It will be awarded the Tools Competition's Growth Award for $150,000 to develop AI-BRIDGE: Advancing Instruction through Bilingual Recommendations for Inclusive Data-driven Guidance for Equity in Early Childhood Education. Learn more about the 2023-2024 winners here.

IGDILab's AI-BRIDGE was selected from over 1,900 submissions worldwide. It will provide early educators working with multilingual learners with personalized instructional guidance based on children's linguistic profiles, their English and Spanish language and literacy performance (via Individual Growth and Development Indicators), and classroom instructional language. This process will result in a more equitable data-driven process to tailor instruction and honor children's diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds.  

Collectively, the Tools Competition winners were awarded more than $8 million, and their tools are projected to impact over 24 million learners by 2027. Winning solutions will play a key role in accelerating and better assessing K-12 learning outcomes, strengthening 21st-century skills, boosting the impact of early childhood instruction, facilitating the learning science research process, engaging adult learners in higher education, and training and upskilling learners for an adaptive workforce—all while advancing the field of learning engineering.

The 2024-25 cycle of the Tools Competition will launch in September 2024.

Congratulations to the IGDILab!