Lessons Learned From Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Middle School Students (SIGCSE TS 2023 - Posters)

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David Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Bryan Cox, Judith Uchidiuno, Janet Kolodner, Patriel Stapleton

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SIGCSE TS 2023 Posters

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Fri 17 Mar 2023 15:00 - 17:00 at Exhibit Hall G - In Person Posters 2 Chair(s): Meghan Allen, Jennifer Campbell

Abstract

The XXXX (anonymized) project is developing a nine-week elective course called “Anonymized Artificial Intelligence Course Name” and piloting it in several XXXX middle schools. Since we must educate all students about AI, the course addresses a wide range of student abilities, levels of academic preparedness, and prior computing experience, and leaves room for teachers to adapt the material to their own students’ needs and interests. Although the course relies primarily on unplugged activities and online demonstration programs, small programming projects using AI tools are an option some teachers choose to incorporate. In this poster we describe lessons learned from initial pilot offerings by five teachers who taught 12 sections of the course totaling 299 students. We present evidence that middle school students can successfully engage with substantive technical content about Artificial Intelligence.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1145/3545947.3576315

David Touretzky

Carnegie Mellon University

United States

Christina Gardner-McCune

Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

United States

Bryan Cox

Georgia Department of Edcuation

United States

Judith Uchidiuno

Carnegie Mellon University

United States

Janet Kolodner

Boston College

United States

Patriel Stapleton

University of Florida

United States

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15:00 - 17:00	In Person Posters 2Posters at Exhibit Hall G Chair(s): Meghan Allen University of British Columbia, Jennifer Campbell University of Toronto

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