RET Site: Research Experience for Teachers in Interdisciplinary AI

人工智能(AI)正在对日常生活产生越来越大的影响，从智能扬声器和数字助理到医学发现和司法判决。因此，人工智能技术的伦理和社会影响使得所有公民都必须了解对社会未来的积极和消极影响。加州大学圣地亚哥分校(UCSD)的这个新的RET网站将为高中教师提供研究机会，以加深他们对人工智能领域的理解，同时开发用于课堂的材料。教师将主要从地区的高中招聘，为STEM中代表性不足和社会经济背景较低的学生提供服务。为期六周的暑期项目将包括为期两周的新兵训练营，为教师参与一项涉及一系列应用程序的密集人工智能研究项目做准备。在本学年，教师将继续通过每月晚餐研讨会与研究人员接触，在这些研讨会上，他们将交流想法并讨论人工智能研究的最新进展。加州大学圣迭戈分校的这个RET网站的知识焦点是跨学科人工智能，重点是深度学习的应用。这些高中计算机科学和数学教师大多来自总部设在加州大学圣地亚哥分校的计算机科学教师协会圣地亚哥分会(Csta SD)，他们将参加为期两周的夏令营，随后与人工智能教师和计算机科学与工程、认知科学和心理学的研究生进行为期四周的密集研究。其他目标是提高加州大学圣迭戈分校教职员工通过与教师参与者合作并向他们学习的能力，向公众交流想法。该团队还努力使用参与者的想法，这些想法可以整合到加州大学圣迭戈分校的人工智能系统教学中。最后，该网站的主要目标是教师理解人工智能的伦理影响和当前的挑战，以促进他们的学生的意识、讨论和兴奋。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is having an increasing impact on everyday life, from smart speakers and digital assistants to medical discoveries and judicial sentencing. Therefore, the ethical and social implications of AI technologies make it imperative that all citizens understand both the positive and negative impacts on the future of society. This new RET site at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) will provide research opportunities for high school teachers to deepen their understanding of the field of AI while developing materials to use in their classrooms. Teachers will be primarily recruited from high schools in districts serving students who are underrepresented in STEM and from low socio-economic backgrounds. The six-week summer program will include a two-week boot camp to prepare teachers to participate in an intensive AI research project across a range of applications. During the academic year, teachers will continue to engage with research faculty through monthly dinner seminars where they will exchange ideas and discuss the latest updates in AI research. The intellectual focus of this RET Site from UCSD is Interdisciplinary Artificial Intelligence, with a focus on the applications of Deep Learning. The high school computer science and math teachers, mostly from the Computer Science Teachers Association San Diego Chapter (CSTA SD), which is headquartered at UCSD, will participate in a two-week summer “boot camp”, followed by four weeks of intensive research with AI faculty and graduate students from Computer Science and Engineering, Cognitive Science, and Psychology. Additional objectives are to improve the ability of UCSD faculty to communicate ideas to the public through collaborating with and learning from teacher participants. The team also strives to use ideas from participants that can be incorporated into teaching UCSD AI systems. Finally, the main goal of the site is that teachers understand the ethical implications and current challenges of AI to promote awareness, discussion, and excitement among their students.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.