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Making Art with and About Artificial Intelligence: Three Approaches to Teaching AI and AI Ethics to Middle and High School Students. This hands-on workshop invites you to experience key moments in Artificial Intelligence curricula designed for middle and high school students. danceON, DAILy and Imagine AI are NSF funded projects...

Exploring AI Ethics Through CS, Literacy, & Design​. Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly prevalent in our lives and while these technologies hold tremendous potential, they also raise numerous ethical concerns. This interactive workshop will share tools for exploring AI ethics across disciplines, including short stories and multimodal design tasks that...

Imagine a More Ethical AI: Using Stories to Develop Teens’ Awareness and Understanding of Artificial Intelligence and its Societal Impacts. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Conference on Research in Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT). May 26, 2021 (Virtual Conference)

This video gives an overview of student learning through the Imagine AI project. Through short stories, computer-based activities and multimodal design projects, students explore what AI is, how machines learn from data, and how AI systems perpetuate the biases of their programmers.

In a virtual ceremony honoring awardees from all four University of Colorado campuses, Imagine AI Author & Researcher, Ellie Haberl Foster, was recognized as an Open Educational Resources (OER) Champion for her work authoring a series of short stories focused on the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI). Foster's stories have...

Exploring A.I. Ethics with Stories, Comics and Chatbots in an Online Summer Camp Poster Presented at American Educational Research Association Virtual Meeting April 8, 2021 (Virtual Conference)

Imagine AI: Integrating Literacy & Computer Science to Increase Awareness of Critical AI Ethics Issues AI4K12 Education Showcase January 29, 2021 (Virtual Conference)

Using stories with embedded Artificial Intelligence ethics dilemmas to develop youth’s critical awareness and design skills . Awarded Best Paper - Literacy, Media & Technology. December 2, 2020 (Virtual Conference)

We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? As digital platforms increasingly become a lifeline to stay connected, Silicon Valley insiders reveal how social media is reprogramming civilization by exposing what’s hiding on the other side of our screens...