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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.

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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.