Collaborative Research: Black Girls as Creators: an intersectional learning ecosystem toward gendered racial equity in Artificial Intelligence education

该项目将与人工智能(AI)的创造者和9-14岁的黑人女孩合作，以扩大作为AI技术一部分的视角和声音的范围。该项目将包括黑人女孩和人工智能创建者的课后和夏令营，共同设计和创造人工智能项目。这个项目考察了两个研究问题。一个是理论上的：交叉人工智能学习生态系统的设计原则是什么？通过这个问题，PI探索了黑人女孩在人工智能学习生态系统中的经历，以及她们如何实施交叉性的构建(批判性思考、行动、问责)。与问题1有关的调查结果将帮助他们为人工智能专业人员制定一个跨部门专业发展框架，专门针对如何在人工智能学习中实现种族平等；并帮助他们创建将人工智能纳入其中的新课程；以及制定一个框架，说明如何将PD与人工智能空间的课程和技术相结合，以创建一个更有凝聚力的学习生态系统。研究问题2侧重于实施：社区组织将课程和专业发展整合到一个跨部门的AI学习生态系统中的实际实施指南是什么？这个问题的发现将有助于为人工智能教育工作者和社区组织开发资源。该项目的发现将引起技术教育工作者、人工智能专业人员、更广泛的STEM教育领域以及提供STEM教育的社区组织的兴趣。该项目由STEM教育中的种族平等活动(EDU种族平等)提供资金。该活动支持研究和实践项目，调查种族平等因素如何影响科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)教育和劳动力的改善。获奖项目寻求集中受STEM企业内部系统性不平等影响最大的个人、社区和机构的声音、知识和经验。这项活动符合NSF的核心价值，即支持来自全国不同人口群体、地区和组织类型的杰出研究人员和创新思想家。EDU各地的项目为种族平等活动提供资金，以表彰其项目与理事会四个部门的集体研究和开发努力的一致性。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will work with artificial intelligence (AI) creators and Black girls, aged 9-14, to expand the range of perspectives and voices that are a part of AI technology. The project will include after school and summer camps for both Black girls and the AI creators to work together on the design and creation of AI projects. This project examines two research questions. One is theoretical: What are design principles for an intersectional AI learning ecosystem? With this question the PIs explore Black girls' experiences with AI learning ecosystems, and how they can enact the constructs of intersectionality (critical reflection, action, accountability). Findings related to question 1 will help them develop a framework for intersectional professional development for AI professionals that is specific to how racial equity can be realized in AI learning; and, help them create new curricula that integrates AI; and, develop a framework for how to integrate PD, with curricula and technologies in AI spaces in order to create a more cohesive learning ecosystem. Research question 2 focuses on implementation: What are practical implementation guidelines for community organizations to integrate curricula and professional development into an intersectional AI learning ecosystem? The findings from this question will facilitate the development of resources for AI educators and community organizations. The findings from this project will be of interest to technology educators, AI professionals, the broader STEM education field, and community organizations that provide STEM education. This project is funded through the Racial Equity in STEM Education activity (EDU Racial Equity). The activity supports research and practice projects that investigate how considerations of racial equity factor into the improvement of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce. Awarded projects seek to center the voices, knowledge, and experiences of the individuals, communities, and institutions most impacted by systemic inequities within the STEM enterprise. This activity aligns with NSF's core value of supporting outstanding researchers and innovative thinkers from across the Nation's diversity of demographic groups, regions, and types of organizations. Programs across EDU contribute funds to the Racial Equity activity in recognition of the alignment of its projects with the collective research and development thrusts of the four divisions of the directorate.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.