Developing AI Tools for Children

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Meeting 15: Tue Apr 30, 2024

last class

Meeting 14: Tue Apr 24, 2024

  1. Mon May 13, 9 AM to noon: Visit to JFK high school, Edgewood district

  2. Paper format:

  3. Review presurvey data

  4. Sharing of other data collected (students)

Meeting 13: Tue Apr 16, 2024

  1. 158 sign-ups so far - 96 on Thu and 62 on Mon

  2. Schedule from here to end of semester 
    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
14 15[16]17[18]19 20    Apr 16 class; Apr 18 Day 1 live
21[22|23]24 25 26 27    Apr 22 Day 2 live; Apr 23 class (data processing)
28 29[30] 1  2  3  4    Apr 30 last class (learning outcomes)
 5  6  7  8  9[10]11    Final paper due Fri May 10 (exam week)
12 13 14 15 16 17 18    Grades due May 13

  3. Use OBS for screen and audio recording

  4. Interest in visiting another school district after semester is ended for outreach?

  5. Post-survey sharing round

  6. Fill out Google form with info for project flyer (see link in Discord)

  7. Go over run of show plans

 

Meeting 12: Tue Apr 9, 2024

  1. Schedule from here to classroom trials 
    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
 7  8[ 9]10 11 12 13    Apr 9 test others sw in class & data collection test
14[15|16]17[18]19 20    Apr 15 dress rehearsal; Apr 16 class; Apr 18 Day 1 live
21[22]23 24 25 26 27    Apr 22 Day 2 live

  2. Review data collection details per immediately below (Mtg 11)

  3. For Mon Apr 15 at Shavano BASIS
    • arrival time is 2:30 PM at 4114 Lockhill Selma Rd, San Antonio, TX 78249
    • bring driver’s license or passport
    • bring working software on your laptop
    • bring one paper copy of your post-interview form for review
    • leave with 0 to 3 additional Windows laptops

  4. Student demos focusing on data collection
    • We use each others’ software if ready

  5. Open issues

 

Meeting 11: Tue Apr 2, 2024

  1. Finalized plans for data collection with students:
    • Your software should ask for FIRST-NAME, LAST-NAME, and GRADE (6, 7, or 8)
    • Grade should be a drop down menu. Don’t make them type it in.
    • Install Zoom or other screen- and audio-recording software on your laptop. Make sure you have a valid account to use (e.g. your UTSA credentials, which should give you 40-min meetings on Zoom before you have to restart).
    • I recommend using Google Forms to create your surveys and then print out blank copies for students to fill in after they use your software.

1.. Software demos and feedback

Meeting 10: Tue Mar 26, 2024

  1. Schedule from here to classroom trials 
    Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
24 25[26]27 28 29 30    Mar 26 - we are here
31  1[ 2] 3  4  5  6    Apr 2 - feature complete incl. data capture
 7  8[ 9]10 11 12 13    Apr 9 - test others sw in class
14[15]16 17[18]19 20    Apr 15 - dress rehearsal; Apr 18 Day 1 live
21[22]23 24 25 26 27    Apr 22 - Day 2 live
  2. Discussion of Does Any AI-Based Activity Contribute To Develop AI Conception? A Case Study With Italian Fifth and Sixth Grade Classes
  3. Discussion of research data collection:
    • recruitment tools: poster, announcement, parent email
    • student assent and pre-survey
    • student post-surveys
    • use of shared unique identifiers across all sub-projects
    • data storage and de-identification
  4. IRB approval process: done
    • support letter from BASIS Shavano
    • student script, assent, pre-survey

    todo

    • parent consent
    • describing processes above
    • getting everyone registered in Cayuse – spreadsheet
    • finish online submission process
  5. Software demos

 

Meeting 9: Tue Mar 19, 2024

Dr. Shuchi Grover virtual visit: brief presentation and Q&A

Latest demos of current software

Open issues

 

Meeting 8: Tue Mar 5, 2024 (4 PM to 5:30 PM)

Software dev process

  • Tue Apr 2: last show-off day
    • feature complete
    • project is done; no more feedback on design
    • find bugs in our own stuff
    • test data collection
  • Tue Apr 9: testing each other’s stuff in class
  • Mon Apr 15: set-up and testing at BASIS
  • Thu Apr 18/Mon Apr 22: work with students

Data collection

  • First name, last initial, and grade
  • standardizing on paper-based surveys
  • possibly distribute post-survey shared times across everyone’s per-project post-surveys

Review of assessment plans and data collection code

Review of advertisement to BASIS students and parents

No meeting next week (Spring Break); next meeting is Tue Mar 19.

 

Meeting 7: Tue Feb 27, 2024

Updated dates for work with BASIS Shavano: Mon Apr 15: setup; Thu Apr 18: demos #1; Mon Apr 22; demos #2. Arrival 2:30 PM and departure 5 PM.

Student presentations of app data-gathering plans and per-project post-surveys.

Collective work on student pre-survey, including editing down starter work I generated with ChatGPT and possibly adding one project-specific item per project.

 

Meeting 6: Tue Feb 20, 2024

BASIS Shavano demos planned for Tue Apr 16 and Thu Apr 18, 3 PM to 5 PM. Tue date is to be confirmed. Please mark your calendars.

Assignment info for next week.

Student demonstrations of project ideas and initial prototypes

 

Meeting 5: Tue Feb 13, 2024

Confirming teams (see notes from Mtg 4 below)

Reflections on Shuchi Grover paper, Teaching AI in K-12 Learners: Lessons, Issues, and Guidance
Assessment approaches from Saniya and Fred’s Exploring children’s attitudes toward an age-tailored AI-powered chatbot

David Touretzky’s Stable Diffusion demo

Pasta Land activity!

Project idea presentations

Upcoming week’s work

 

Meeting 4: Tue Feb 7, 2024

Reflections on Joy Boulamwini Gender Shades video

CITI course reflections:

  • The Federal Regulations
  • Assessing Risk
  • Informed Consent

How do we measure student learning? notes from conversation

Team formation:

  • Durga and Adrian
  • Richard and Ian
  • Matthew and Sam
  • Cesar and Priyanka
  • Yash and Nathan
  • Isaac
  • Saniya
  • Ismaila (consultant)

Assignments

 

Meeting 3: Tue Jan 30, 2024
Reminder to Fred to record session for Nathan

CITI course:

  • Belmont Report
  • History and Ethical Principles
  • Defining Research with Human Subjects

Papers you selected - each presents one

Project ideas you generated - each presents one

Next week’s assignments

 

Meeting 2: Tue Jan 23, 2024
Introductions again :)
Process for registering for credit
Went over syllabus (posted in Discord)

Please use APA format when sharing papers
Ways of finding papers:

  • Google Scholar
  • Going to the library and talking to a librarian
  • IEEE Xplore and ACM Digital Library
  • References in papers
  • Other work by authors cited in papers

Introducing Five Big Ideas in AI

Discussion of papers:

Long & Magerko

  • great source of references
  • demystifying AI
  • promote transparency vs. unveil gradually (glass-box vs. black-box)

Lee at al

  • potential bias in small sample study

Human subjects research introduction

 

Meeting 1: Tue Jan 16, 2024
Introductions
Overview of semester (per home page info)
Setting up sharing - Google Groups; Discord
Teams of 2 or 3
Demos:

  • Saniya Vahedian Movahed: “Ask Me Anything”
  • James Dimino and Andrew Farrell: AI for ASL
  • Vaishali Mahipal DoodleIt

Going over first assignment