Preparing students to be ethical designers and conscientious users of AI
This project seeks to develop an open source curriculum for middle school students on the topic of artificial intelligence. Through a series of lessons and activities, students learn technical concepts—such as how to train a simple classifier—and the ethical implications those technical concepts entail, such as algorithmic bias.
Resources
Team
Blakeley H. Payne
Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Daniella DiPaola
Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Abby Everett Jaques
MIT Quest for Intelligence
Cynthia Breazeal
Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Publications
DiPaola, D., Payne, B.H., & Breazeal, C. (2020). Decoding Design Agendas: An Ethical Design Activity For Middle School Students. Proceedings Of The Interaction Design And Children Conference (IDC 2020), 1—10.
Ali, S., Payne, B.H., Williams, R., Park, HW., & Breazeal, C. (2019). Constructionism, Ethics, And Creativity: Developing Primary And Middle School Artificial Intelligence Education. International Workshop On Education In Artificial Intelligence K-12 (EDUAI’19), 13381—13388.