Fostering AI Literacy through Embodiment and Creativity across Informal Learning Spaces

阿尔蒂人工智能（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，再到停放汽车。然而，大多数关于人工智能如何工作的指导只在计算机科学课程中。人工智能在做出决定方面发挥的独特作用，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。该项目将通过与科技中心的博物馆展品互动，让中学生学习人工智能。展品采用具体的互动和创造性的制作活动，涉及纺织品，音乐制作和互动媒体。该研究将建立在三个展览原型的基础上，这些原型教授了一些概念，包括机器学习中的数据偏见、人工智能决策过程以及人工智能如何表示知识。在展览设计迭代和测试期间，将招募女性识别和标题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。第一章交互式博物馆展品的设计如何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，具体化和创造性？2）在非正式学习环境中，具体的互动和创造性的制作是如何调解人工智能的学习的？该项目将采用基于设计的研究方法，迭代地建立在现有的展览原型上，并与学习者进行现场测试。数据来源和分析模式将包括回顾性调查，以评估兴趣、内容知识获得、创造力、音频记录的学习谈话分析以及视频记录中的具体动作编码。学习谈话分析将确定与我们的展览自然互动过程中的联合意义建构的实例，以揭示意义建构谈话之间的联系;学习者在实时协作知识构建过程中的行为和具体行动;以及在回顾性调查中得出的知识，兴趣和创造力措施的结果。最后一组展品将由500多名博物馆参观者进行严格评估。这项工作的关键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AI素养博物馆展品的设计指南，以及对AI相关学习与兴趣发展之间关系的更好理解，体现该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过评估使用基金会的知识优点和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.