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Empowerment-Focused Computing in Constructionist Learning Environments
Thu, April 9, 4:15 to 5:45pm PDT (4:15 to 5:45pm PDT), Los Angeles Convention Center, Floor: Level Two, Room 515BSession Type: Structured Poster Session
Abstract
There is a need for approaches to computing education that move away from a focus on the “STEM Pipeline,” towards instilling in students the understanding of how to use and create with computing in personally relevant and community-driven ways. Through such an approach, we can foster students’ “digital or computational empowerment”, which can help them see new endpoints in computing that are more expansive and inclusive. This structured poster session highlights studies within computational learning that center this notion of computational empowerment. From critical understanding of, and creating with, artificial intelligence and machine learning, to working with youth and families as co-designers, this session brings together scholars doing work to empower learners in the rapidly shifting environment of computing.
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Chairs
Mike Tissenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Ashita Bawankule, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Papers
Algorithm Auditing as a Method for Teens to Deconstruct Biases in Generative AI TikTok Filters - Luis Morales-Navarro, University of Pennsylvania; Yasmin B. Kafai, University of Pennsylvania; Lauren Vogelstein, Teachers College, Columbia University; Danaë Metaxa, University of Pennsylvania
Intergenerational Learning through an Ecologically-focused Game Design Project Between Youth and Adult Learners - Clifford H. Lee, Northeastern University; Lyndsay Schaeffer, Northeastern University; Feifei Shen, Northeastern University
A Study of Latinx Youth’s Civic Engagement Through Designing Machine Learning Applications - Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez, University of California - Irvine; Kylie A. Peppler, University of California - Irvine; Eva Durall, University of Oulu
Empowering Students to Harness the Data that Surrounds Them - David Weintrop, University of Maryland; Rotem Israel-Fishelson, University of Maryland
Intergenerational AI Literacy: Centering Identity, Community, and Creative Futures - Hawra Rabaan, University of Maryland, College Park; Sheena Erete, University of Maryland
“A Path to Activism”: CS Teachers Developing Critical Agency with Algorithmic Systems through Algorithm Auditing - Daniel J Noh, University of Pennsylvania; Deborah Fields, Utah State University; Yasmin B. Kafai, University of Pennsylvania; Danaë Metaxa, University of Pennsylvania
Objects-to-be-from: Attending to Embodied Ways of Knowing and Being in Creative Computing Learning Design - Cassandra Scheirer, New York University; Francisco Castro, New York University; Kayla DesPortes, New York University
Centering Maker Voices and Ideas with AI-powered Support - Blake Danzig, Teachers College, Columbia University; Emmy Semprun, Teachers College, Columbia University; J K Voorhis, Teachers College, Columbia University; Nathan Holbert, Teachers College, Columbia University
Data is Power: Elevating K-12 Youth as Multidisciplinary Sociotechnical AI Justice Researchers - Evan Shieh, Young Data Scientists League; Thema Monroe-White, George Mason University
The Role of Near-Peer Mentors in Middle-School Students’ Digitally Empowered App Design - Ashita Bawankule, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; David A. Hopping, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Mike Tissenbaum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign