Wirelessly bridging the homework gap: Technical options and social challenges in getting broadband to disconnected students

Reisdorf, Bianca C.; Yankelevich, Aleksandr; Shapiro, Mitch; Dutton, William H.

doi:10.1007/s10639-019-09953-9

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“…Also, students with slower Internet connections had difficulty completing activities and participating in the synchronous online workshop. Beyond our specific workshop context where all our participants at least had Chromebooks, one-to-one devices are not available for students in every part of the United States much less the rest of the world (Reisdorf et al, 2019 ). We propose making future AI education even more accessible by developing platforms that work on all kinds of devices, including older computers, mobile devices, and community computers.…”

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AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula

Williams

Ali

Devasia

et al. 2022

Int J Artif Intell Educ

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing many industries and becoming increasingly ubiquitous in everyday life. To empower children growing up with AI to navigate society’s evolving sociotechnical context, we developed three middle school AI literacy curricula: Creative AI, Dancing with AI, and How to Train Your Robot. In this paper we discuss how we leveraged three design principles—active learning, embedded ethics, and low barriers to access – to effectively engage students in learning to create and critique AI artifacts. During the summer of 2020, we recruited and trained in-service, middle school teachers from across the United States to co-instruct online workshops with students from their schools. In the workshops, a combination of hands-on unplugged and programming activities facilitated students’ understanding of AI. As students explored technical concepts in tandem with ethical ones, they developed a critical lens to better grasp how AI systems work and how they impact society. We sought to meet the specified needs of students from a range of backgrounds by minimizing the prerequisite knowledge and technology resources students needed to participate. Finally, we conclude with lessons learned and design recommendations for future AI curricula, especially for K-12 in-person and virtual learning.

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AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula

Williams

Ali

Devasia

et al. 2022

Int J Artif Intell Educ

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“…But, future work should consider how older computers, community computers, and mobile devices could be used to lower the technology barrier. Relatedly, the digital divide, especially in rural areas, is an unsolved issue that makes computer science education unattainable for many (Reisdorf et al 2019). Our platform uses very little Internet bandwidth.…”

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Teacher Perspectives on How To Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum

Williams

Kaputsos

Breazeal

2021

AAAI

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To enable a diverse citizenry to fully participate in future society, we must prepare all students to construct and critique emerging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI). Classrooms are important spaces to teach students these skills, however there are few AI curricula that have been developed for and used by K-12 teachers. We developed the \textit{How to Train Your Robot: AI and Ethics Curriculum} for middle school teachers who want to introduce AI to their students. This paper describes the curriculum and professional development we used to prepare teachers to run a five-day AI course. Before and after they ran the curriculum, we interviewed teachers to understand their opinions on pedagogical approaches to teaching AI, meeting students' needs, and the feasibility of doing the activities in the classroom. Our results indicate that, with appropriate training, even teachers who were new to computer science felt prepared and successfully engaged their students in the topic. We hope our insights will inform future efforts to realize AI education in primary and secondary classrooms.

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“…1–34). Many students with no access to support for their schoolwork live in deep rural communities ( Reisdorf et al, 2019 ). These effects were consistently observed even before schools were forced to move online due to COVID.…”

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Evaluating the impact of broadband access and internet use in a small underserved rural community

Valentin-Sivico

Canfield

Low

et al. 2023

Telecommunications Policy

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Wirelessly bridging the homework gap: Technical options and social challenges in getting broadband to disconnected students

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula

AI + Ethics Curricula for Middle School Youth: Lessons Learned from Three Project-Based Curricula

Teacher Perspectives on How To Train Your Robot: A Middle School AI and Ethics Curriculum

Evaluating the impact of broadband access and internet use in a small underserved rural community

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