AI is everywhere. On the one hand, AI applications are improving our quality of life. On the other hand, AI is perpetuating and amplifying bias and harm for many populations. Children need to be involved at an early age in learning about how such technology works from a human-centered and sociocritical lens. In this talk, Arastoopour Irgens will discuss her research on designing AI literacy activities with and for elementary and middle-school aged children that integrate social, ethical, and ideological dimensions. Findings show that engaging young students in recognizing, critiquing, reimagining, and building AI technologies facilitates their developing sociocritical AI literacies.

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