Artificial Intelligence–Powered Augmented Reality Facilitates U.S. and Ukrainian Middle Schoolers' Biodiversity Explorations (Poster 16)

• In Event: AERA Poster Session Sixteen
  In Poster Session: Instructional Technology SIG Posters

Abstract

This study explored how middle school students at two public schools in the US and Ukraine used Augmented Reality applications powered with Artificial Intelligence to explore local plant biodiversity and their effects on students’ situational interest in science and understanding of biodiversity. Students in the two countries chose to use different applications (Seek and Google Lens) after testing their plant identification accuracy and learned how heavily AI models rely on the data used to train the model. While both boys and girls demonstrated better conceptual understanding of biodiversity and AI in the US, mostly boys benefited from these AR-enabled lessons in Ukraine. These culture-bound gender effects of technology use in science education should be explored further in future studies.

Authors

• Pasha Antonenko, University of Florida
  Presenting Author

• Yevhenii Shapovalov, Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  Non-Presenting Author

• Zhanna Bilyk
  Non-Presenting Author

• Viktor Shapovalov, Junior Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  Non-Presenting Author

• Tredina Sheppard, PK Yonge Developmental Research School
  Non-Presenting Author