The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence (AI) necessitates promoting AI education at the K-12 level. However, educating young learners to become AI literate citizens poses several challenges. The components of AI literacy are ill-defined and it is unclear to what extent middle school students can engage in learning about AI as a sociotechnical system with socio-political implications. In this paper we posit that students must learn three core domains of AI: technical concepts and processes, ethical and societal implications, and career futures in the AI era. This paper describes the design and implementation of the Developing AI Literacy (DAILy) workshop that aimed to integrate middle school students' learning of the three domains. We found that after the workshop, most students developed a general understanding of AI concepts and processes (e.g., supervised learning and logic systems). More importantly, they were able to identify bias, describe ways to mitigate bias in machine learning, and start to consider how AI may impact their future lives and careers. At exit, nearly half of the students explained AI as not just a technical subject, but one that has personal, career, and societal implications. Overall, this finding suggests that the approach of incorporating ethics and career futures into AI education is age appropriate and effective for developing AI literacy among middle school students. This study contributes to the field of AI Education by presenting a model of integrating ethics into the teaching of AI that is appropriate for middle school students.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-02DOI: 10.1007/s40593-022-00290-6
P. Wulff, Lukas Mientus, Ann I. Nowak, Andreas Borowski
{"title":"Utilizing a Pretrained Language Model (BERT) to Classify Preservice Physics Teachers’ Written Reflections","authors":"P. Wulff, Lukas Mientus, Ann I. Nowak, Andreas Borowski","doi":"10.1007/s40593-022-00290-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-022-00290-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"33 1","pages":"439 - 466"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46816473","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-15DOI: 10.1007/s40593-022-00292-4
Jingwan Tang, Xiaoping Zhou, Xiaoyu Wan, Michael Daley, Zhengyan Bai
{"title":"ML4STEM Professional Development Program: Enriching K-12 STEM Teaching with Machine Learning","authors":"Jingwan Tang, Xiaoping Zhou, Xiaoyu Wan, Michael Daley, Zhengyan Bai","doi":"10.1007/s40593-022-00292-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-022-00292-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"33 1","pages":"185 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49333851","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1007/s40593-021-00280-0
Lu Shao, R. Levine, Maureen A. Guarcello, Morten C. Wilke, Jeanne Stronach, James P. Frazee, J. Fan
{"title":"Estimating a Dose-Response Relationship in Quasi-Experimental Student Success Studies","authors":"Lu Shao, R. Levine, Maureen A. Guarcello, Morten C. Wilke, Jeanne Stronach, James P. Frazee, J. Fan","doi":"10.1007/s40593-021-00280-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00280-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"33 1","pages":"155 - 184"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44421488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-02DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5
S. Esmaeilzadeh, Brian Williams, Davood Shamsi, Onar Vikingstad
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence in Education: 23rd International Conference, AIED 2022, Durham, UK, July 27–31, 2022, Proceedings, Part I","authors":"S. Esmaeilzadeh, Brian Williams, Davood Shamsi, Onar Vikingstad","doi":"10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-11644-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-03-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73741242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-26DOI: 10.1007/s40593-021-00288-6
B. Woolf
{"title":"Obituary for Carole Beal","authors":"B. Woolf","doi":"10.1007/s40593-021-00288-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00288-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"118 - 119"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52844480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-21DOI: 10.1007/s40593-021-00286-8
Alexandra González-Eras, Ricardo Moraes dos Santos, J. Aguilar
{"title":"Evaluation of Digital Competence Profiles Using Dialetheic Logic","authors":"Alexandra González-Eras, Ricardo Moraes dos Santos, J. Aguilar","doi":"10.1007/s40593-021-00286-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00286-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"33 1","pages":"59 - 87"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41677911","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-09DOI: 10.1007/s40593-021-00287-7
Cristiano Galafassi, F. F. P. Galafassi, R. Vicari, Eliseo Reategui
{"title":"EvoLogic: Toward an ITS for Teaching Propositional Logic","authors":"Cristiano Galafassi, F. F. P. Galafassi, R. Vicari, Eliseo Reategui","doi":"10.1007/s40593-021-00287-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00287-7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"33 1","pages":"35 - 58"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47847928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-01-03DOI: 10.1007/s40593-021-00283-x
Moriah Ariely, Tanya Nazaretsky, Giora Alexandron
{"title":"Machine Learning and Hebrew NLP for Automated Assessment of Open-Ended Questions in Biology","authors":"Moriah Ariely, Tanya Nazaretsky, Giora Alexandron","doi":"10.1007/s40593-021-00283-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40593-021-00283-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46637,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Artificial Intelligence in Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-34"},"PeriodicalIF":4.9,"publicationDate":"2022-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48332569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}