Fostering AI Literacy through Embodiment and Creativity across Informal Learning Spaces

人工智能（AI）存在于我们的许多日常活动中——从解锁手机到运行互联网搜索再到停车。然而，大多数关于人工智能如何工作的指导只是在计算机科学课程中。人工智能在做出影响人类生活的决策方面所发挥的独特作用，提高了对促进公众人工智能素养的教育方法的需求。很少有人研究如何在非正式学习空间中最好地教授人工智能。该项目将通过与科学技术中心的博物馆展品互动，让中学生了解人工智能。展品采用具象化的互动和创造性的制作活动，包括纺织品、音乐制作和互动媒体。这项研究将建立在三个展览原型的基础上，这些原型将教授机器学习中的数据偏差、人工智能决策过程以及人工智能如何代表知识等概念。在展览设计迭代和测试期间，将招募女性认同和Title 1青年作为参与者。该项目由推进非正式STEM学习（AISL）计划资助，该计划旨在推进非正式环境中STEM学习的设计和开发的新方法和基于证据的理解。研究人员将探索两个关键研究问题：1)交互式博物馆展品的设计如何通过具体化和创造性制作来鼓励没有计算机科学背景的学习者对人工智能的兴趣发展和学习？2)在非正式学习环境中，具身互动和创造性制作如何介导人工智能的学习？该项目将采用基于设计的研究方法，在现有展品原型的基础上进行迭代构建，并与学习者一起进行现场测试。数据来源和分析模式将包括回顾调查，以评估兴趣、内容知识的获得、创造力、录音的学习谈话分析，以及录像中具体动作的编码。学习谈话分析将在与我们的展品的自然互动中识别联合意义构建的实例，以揭示意义构建谈话之间的联系；实时协同知识构建过程中学习者的行为与具体行动以及在知识、兴趣和创造力方面的结果，这些都是在回顾性调查中得出的。最终的展品将由500多名参观者进行严格的评估。这项工作的主要贡献将包括一套经过严格测试的展品、公开的展品设计、一套开发人工智能识字博物馆展品的设计指南，以及对人工智能相关学习与兴趣发展、体现和创造力之间关系的更好理解。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。

Artificial intelligence (AI) is in many of our everyday activities—from unlocking phones to running Internet searches to parking cars. Yet, most instruction on how AI works is only in computer science courses. The unique role that AI plays in making decisions that affect human lives heightens the need for education approaches that promote public AI literacy. Little research has been done to understand how we can best teach AI in informal learning spaces. This project will engage middle school age youth in learning abouts AI through interaction with museum exhibits in science and technology centers. The exhibits employ embodied interactions and creative making activities that involve textiles, music making, and interactive media. The research will build on three exhibit prototypes that teach about concepts including bias in data in machine learning, AI decision-making processes, and how AI represents knowledge. Female-identifying and Title 1 youth will be recruited as participants during the exhibit design iterations and testing. The project is funded by the Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, which seeks to advance new approaches to, and evidence-based understanding of, the design and development of STEM learning in informal environmentsResearchers will explore two key research questions: 1) How can the design of interactive museum exhibits encourage interest development in and learning about AI among learners without a Computer Science background by using embodiment and creative making? and 2) How do embodied interaction and creative making mediate learning about AI in informal learning environments? The project will take a design-based research approach, iteratively building on existing exhibit prototypes and testing them in-situ with learners. Data sources and modes of analysis will include retrospective surveys to assess interest, content knowledge gain, creativity, learning talk analysis of audio recordings, and coding of embodied movements in video recordings. Learning talk analysis will identify instances of joint sensemaking during naturalistic interactions with our exhibit to reveal connections between sensemaking talk; learners' behaviors and embodied actions during real-time collaborative knowledge building; and outcomes in knowledge, interest, and creativity measures as elicited in retrospective surveys. The final set of exhibits will be rigorously evaluated with over 500 museum visitors. The key contributions of this work will include a set of rigorously tested exhibits, publicly available exhibit designs, a set of design guidelines for developing AI literacy museum exhibits, and an improved understanding of the relationship between AI-related learning and interest development, embodiment, and creativity.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.