2025 kicked off with the build-out of an extraordinary end-to-end learning platform called AI For Experiential Learning. This platform uses generative prompting algorithms, enabling students and teachers to harness AI as a robust tool for STEM learning.
Our AI-assisted Experiential Learning Journey Begins
The AI platform’s design was perfectly demonstrated with a children’s field trip to a community science center. The trip featured an afternoon of dinosaur-related educational films, activities, and discussions. The junior dinosaur hunters recounted the event through an AI-enabled dialog. Then, the AI guided the children in their creations of multimedia content, including pictures, stories, songs, and videos.
Clash of the Dinosaurs
To ensure the outputs were usable, the children got to express to the AI assistant what type of educational multimedia they would like to create. This led to an interesting kid-to-AI dialog about how to illustrate a T-Rex. The children’s request to incorporate fantasy elements in the dinosaur image, specifically breathing fire, contrasted with the AI lesson’s scientifically accurate parameters. In a perfect example of AI-assisted learning, the AI responded by generating two pictures: (1) a make-believe, fire-breathing T-Rex with glowing eyes and (2) a realistic T-Rex.
(1) AI-generated picture of a fantasy T-Rex
(2) AI-generated picture of a realistic T-Rex
The Dino Journey Continues
Our Jurassic adventurers and their AI assistant kept on trekking. Further learning experiences were powered by dinosaur-themed original songs, stories, pictures, and animated videos. The videos included AI-generated image descriptions for those with visual impairments. To offer continual engagement, our AI generated more age-appropriate learning activities, including STEM-centered arts and crafts.
Matt Kaplowitz, President and Chief Creative Officer commented, “Bridge’s software engineers used generative prompts to direct the AI to function as an advanced, kid-centric AI creative assistant. The outputs reflected the children’s developmental levels, language, and imagination. This was a powerful way to constructively build children’s AI skills.”
According to John Cavanagh, Bridge’s Chief Innovation Officer, “Our successful projects, partially supported by the U.S. Department of Education, demonstrate the power of AI in fostering critical thinking and reinforcing real-world experiences. That’s why Bridge has put such an emphasis on experiential learning and artificial intelligence over the past year, including:
- STEM Reimagined, which concentrated on the intersection of informal STEM learning and generative AI prompting to support STEM education.
- Plain Language for Emergency Communications is an AI tool that makes information understandable at a broad range of age and cognition levels.
- Prosody Profiles is an algorithm designed to increase the natural sound quality of AI-generated speech for emergency communications, audio description, gaming, and more. The platform is also a vibrant new tech employment category.”
We are looking forward to an exceptional year of innovation at Bridge Multimedia.
Stay tuned!
Matt Kaplowitz & the Bridge Team