{"id":730,"date":"2024-12-03T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T22:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/?p=730"},"modified":"2025-11-28T17:30:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T17:30:02","slug":"ai-and-digital-twins-in-classroom-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/ai-and-digital-twins-in-classroom-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"AI and digital twins in classroom teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How are we planning to leverage AI in classroom teaching? Rutgers is hosting AI in Teaching Conference (12\/6\/24). My colleague <a id=\"ember1933\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/hussein-issa\/\">Hussein Issa<\/a> and I will be presenting Teaching AI and Teaching with AI at <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/rutgers-business-school\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\">Rutgers Business School<\/a>. I created this AI-generated video showcasing the digital twin of me <a id=\"ember1934\" class=\"ember-view\" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/xin-david-ding-5b5b618\/\">Xin (David) Ding<\/a> reading through scripts related to an introduction course for Project Management. It was fun and also promising with so much AI-enabled video tools. We look forward to a great discussion of using AI in classroom.<\/p>\n<p>See the digital twin of myself in the video with mixed feelings&#8230;. I could not tell which one is the real me &#8230; [update] my son is telling me that I (or I might need to refer as it) had less accent though &#8230; \ud83d\ude06 \ud83d\ude43 \ud83e\udee0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=ai&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>AI<\/a> <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=artificalintelligence&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>Artificalintelligence<\/a> <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=teaching&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>Teaching<\/a> <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=classroom&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>Classroom<\/a> <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=innovation&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>innovation<\/a> <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=conference&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>conference<\/a> <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=rbs&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>RBS<\/a> <a class=\"fFqwwGyjRCjDcOHgHpEfFkotUeAoeNOdwwQPxQ \" href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/hashtag\/?keywords=rutgers&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A7269793189283127298\" data-test-app-aware-link=\"\"><span class=\"visually-hidden\">hashtag<\/span><span aria-hidden=\"true\">#<\/span>Rutgers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rutgers.mediaspace.kaltura.com\/media\/Project%20Management\/1_xwhutczh\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-733 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1050\/2024\/12\/PM-Snapshot.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1062\" height=\"651\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1050\/2024\/12\/PM-Snapshot.png 1062w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1050\/2024\/12\/PM-Snapshot-300x184.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1050\/2024\/12\/PM-Snapshot-1024x628.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1050\/2024\/12\/PM-Snapshot-768x471.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1062px) 100vw, 1062px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How are we planning to leverage AI in classroom teaching? 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My colleague Hussein Issa and I will be presenting Teaching AI and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/ai-and-digital-twins-in-classroom-teaching\/\" class=\"\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3034,"featured_media":733,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conference","category-teaching"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>AI and digital twins in classroom teaching - Xin Ding<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.rutgers.edu\/xin-ding\/ai-and-digital-twins-in-classroom-teaching\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"AI and digital twins in classroom teaching - Xin Ding\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"How are we planning to leverage AI in classroom teaching? 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