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Introducing AI Without Computers: Hands-On Literacy and Ethical Sense-Making for Young Learners

Year: 2025

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Middle school students encounter AI daily, yet they often lack the tools to critically examine AI's influence on their lives.We seek to address this issue by designing activities where learners engage with AI in personally relevant contexts and "unplugged" interactions foster collaborative ethical reasoning.We present novel designs of four unplugged activities that address learning objectives such as recognizing AI, understanding AI's capabilities, and reasoning about AI ethics.We conducted a secondary analysis of CHI EA '25,

Source: Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA)

DOI: 10.1145/3706599.3719876

Authors: Hasti Darabipourshiraz, Maalvika Bhat, Duri Long

Institution: Northwestern University

Language: English

Topic: Teaching and Learning Programming

Subfield: Computer Science Applications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDG: Quality education

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: National Science Foundation, North Carolina State University