Innovative approaches to Informal Education in Artificial Intelligence

人工智能非正式教育的创新方法

• 批准号: 1906636
• 负责人: Harold Abelson
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-01 至 2022-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1906636&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Innovative; approaches; Informal; Education; Artificial

As part of its overall strategy to enhance learning in informal environments, the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program funds innovative research, approaches and resources for use in a variety of settings. Despite the ubiquity of Artificial Intelligence (AI), public understanding of how it works and is used is limited This project will research, design, and develop innovative approaches focusing on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for under-represented youth ages 14-24. Program components include live social media chats with AI leaders, app development, journalistic investigations of ethical issues in machine learning, and review of AI-based consumer products. Youth Radio is a non-profit media and tech organizations that provides youth with skills in STEM, journalism, arts, and communications. They engage 250 youth annually through free after-school classes and work shifts. Participants are 90% youth of color and 80% low income. Project partners include the MIT Media Lab which developed App Inventor which allows novice users to build fully functional apps. Staff from Google will serve as a project advisor on the curriculum. The project has exceptional national reach through the dissemination of its media and apps through national outlets such as NPR and Teen Vogue as well as various platforms including online, on-air, as well as presentations, publications, and training tools. The project broadens participation by engaging these low income youth of color in developing skills critical to the workforce of the future. It will help prepare an upcoming generation of Artificial Intelligence creators, users, and consumers who understand the technology and embrace and encourage its potential.It will give them the necessary knowledge and opportunities for careers in an AI-driven future. This project is grounded in sociocultural learning theory and practice and is interdisciplinary by design. The theoretical framework holds that Computational Thinking plus Critical Pedagogy leads to Critical Computational Literacy. Also, Digital Age Civics plus Participatory Culture leads to Civic Imagination helping youth build a better world through technology. The driving research questions include: What do underrepresented youth understand about AI and its role in society? What are the ethical dilemmas posed by AI from their vantage point? What are the features of an engaging ethics-centered pedagogy with AI? What impact do the AI products developed by the youth have on the target audience? The research design will use ethnographic techniques and design research to study and analyze youth learning. Data sources will include baseline surveys, audio recordings and transcriptions from learning sessions with the participants, research analytic memos, focus group interviews, student-generating artifacts of learning and finished products, etc. The design-based approach will enable systematic, evidence-based iteration on the initiative's activities, pedagogical approach and products. An independent summative evaluation will provide complementary data and perspective to triangulate with the research findings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

作为加强非正式环境中学习的总体战略的一部分，推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）项目资助了用于各种环境的创新研究、方法和资源。尽管人工智能（AI）无处不在，但公众对其工作原理和使用方式的理解有限。该项目将为14-24岁的弱势青年研究、设计和开发专注于人工智能（AI）的创新方法。项目内容包括与人工智能领导者的实时社交媒体聊天、应用程序开发、对机器学习中道德问题的新闻调查，以及对基于人工智能的消费产品的审查。青年电台是一家非营利媒体和技术组织，为青年提供STEM、新闻、艺术和通信方面的技能。他们每年通过免费的课后课程和轮班工作来吸引250名年轻人。参与者90%是有色人种青年，80%是低收入者。项目合作伙伴包括麻省理工学院媒体实验室，该实验室开发了App Inventor，允许新手用户构建功能齐全的应用程序。b谷歌的工作人员将担任课程的项目顾问。通过美国国家公共电台（NPR）和《Teen Vogue》等全国性渠道以及包括在线、广播、演讲、出版物和培训工具在内的各种平台，该项目通过其媒体和应用程序的传播，在全国范围内具有卓越的影响力。该项目通过让这些低收入的有色人种青年参与发展对未来劳动力至关重要的技能，扩大了他们的参与度。它将帮助新一代的人工智能创造者、用户和消费者做好准备，他们了解这项技术，并接受和鼓励它的潜力。这将为他们在人工智能驱动的未来提供必要的知识和就业机会。本项目以社会文化学习理论与实践为基础，设计为跨学科。该理论框架认为，计算思维加批判教学法导致批判性计算素养。此外，数字时代公民学加上参与式文化，可以培养公民想象力，帮助年轻人通过技术建设一个更美好的世界。驱动研究的问题包括：未被充分代表的年轻人对人工智能及其在社会中的作用有何理解？从有利的角度来看，人工智能带来了什么道德困境？以伦理为中心的人工智能教学有哪些特点？年轻人开发的人工智能产品对目标受众有什么影响？研究设计将使用民族志技术和设计研究来研究和分析青少年的学习。数据来源将包括基线调查、与参与者的学习会议的录音和转录、研究分析备忘录、焦点小组访谈、学生生成的学习工件和成品等。基于设计的方法将在项目的活动、教学方法和产品上实现系统的、基于证据的迭代。独立的总结性评估将提供补充数据和视角，以三角测量研究结果。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。