{"id":99550,"date":"2026-07-08T21:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/99550\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:43:12","slug":"college-of-education-alums-recognized-nationally-for-responsible-ai-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/99550\/","title":{"rendered":"College of Education alums recognized nationally for responsible AI education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading time:   &lt; 1 minute<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/manoa-education-presidential-ai-challenge-finalists.jpg\" alt=\"three people smiling with lei\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-237144\"  \/>From left, Leah Aiwohi, Kawika Gonzales, Chloe Sato<\/p>\n<p>Three Hawai\u02bbi educators, including University of Hawai\u02bbi at M\u0101noa <a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">College of Education<\/a> (COE) alumni Kawika Gonzales and Leah Aiwohi, were named finalists in the Presidential AI Challenge for their work advancing responsible artificial intelligence (AI) education. As national finalists and winners of the regional competition, they received a monetary prize and access to web-based resources.<\/p>\n<p>Empowering students through responsible AI<\/p>\n<p>Along with colleague Chloe Sato, the educators were recognized in Washington, D.C., for Global Innovation Race Hawai\u02bbi, a statewide program that teaches high school students how to use AI responsibly while addressing real-world community challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales, who earned a master of education in learning design and technology and a certificate in online learning and teaching from UH M\u0101noa, said the program encourages students to think beyond simply using AI tools.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTeaching our students how to use AI is no longer enough,\u201d Gonzales said. \u201cWe also need to teach them when to use it, why to use it, and whether it should be used at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aiwohi, who earned a bachelor of education and professional diploma in elementary education from the College of Education, said her preparation at UH continues to shape her teaching decades later.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough I graduated from the College of Education more than 36 years ago, the lessons that have stayed with me are not tied to specific textbooks or technologies; they are the enduring principles of effective teaching,\u201d Aiwohi said.<\/p>\n<p>The program connects students across Hawai\u02bbi to collaborate on community-based projects using design thinking and responsible AI, helping prepare the next generation of ethical technology leaders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coe.hawaii.edu\/news\/?open=news-2-6976\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full College of Education story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more on how Gonzales is inspiring his haum\u0101na (students) on Moloka\u02bbi, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/03\/teacher-inspires-molokai-keiki\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">see this UH News story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading time: &lt; 1 minuteFrom left, Leah Aiwohi, Kawika Gonzales, Chloe Sato Three Hawai\u02bbi educators, including University of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,244,32641,51927,25,47523,76,1172,3458,51925,2683,32580,33893,51926,32579,32578,684,51918,51919,51922,51923,39977,39979,51928,39978,51920,51921,51924,14687,238,39976,227,32615],"class_list":["post-99550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-in-education","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-college-of-education","tag-education","tag-educational-technology","tag-ethical-ai","tag-global-innovation-race-hawaii","tag-hawaii","tag-hawaii-college","tag-hawaii-department-of-education","tag-hawaii-education","tag-hawaii-higher-education","tag-hawaii-university","tag-innovation","tag-kawika-gonzales","tag-leah-aiwohi","tag-learning-design-and-technology","tag-ltec","tag-manoa-campus","tag-manoa-college","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-university","tag-presidential-ai-challenge","tag-responsible-ai-education","tag-student-innovation","tag-uh","tag-uh-manoa","tag-uhm","tag-university-of-hawaii","tag-university-of-hawaii-at-manoa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=99550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}