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Everyday AI has an AI Literacy curriculum, assessment tools, and a PD model to share!
Everyday AI (EdAI) addresses the need to develop a diverse workforce with the knowledge and skills to work with AI and answers the call for widely-accessible and age-appropriate AI Literacy education. Broadening participation in AI is important in ensuring that AI technologies are founded on principles of inclusivity and equitability. MIT and Boston College prepared over 120 middle and high school teachers from districts across Florida, Illinois, New York, Virginia, and New Mexico who tengaged over 4800 middle and high school students in AI lessons and activities that built students’ interest in AI and AI-enabled industries of the future. The majority of the students are from Black and Latinx families. EdAI was built upon the Developing AI Literacy (DAILy) curriculum that interweaves AI concepts, ethics in AI, generative AI, and AI career and futures. The EdAI professional development (PD) program takes a multi-pronged approach offering an AI Book Club, a Summer Practicum, and an online Community of Practice. Our research investigates how this PD model supports teachers to learn, adopt, modify, and teach the DAILy curriculum in a wide range of classroom settings and how the teachers’ implementation of the curriculum impacts student learning. Over the past 1.5 years, through US Dept. of Education funding, EdAI has partnered with New Mexico State University to scale the project across New Mexico and study its impact on Rural, Hispanic, and Indigenous communities.
Pillar 1: Innovative Use of Technologies in Learning and Teaching
The Everyday AI program examines an innovative model for the advancement of teacher content knowledge, pedagogy, and self-efficacy to develop their students’ AI Literacy. Through its PD model, in-service middle school teachers of all subject areas learn to implement the Developing AI Literacy (DAILy) curriculum, which uses participatory simulations as well as unplugged activities, to foster students to become critical consumers, ethical designers, and active participants in democratic discussions around AI.
Pillar 2: Partnerships for Career and Workforce Preparation.
Everyday AI partnered with CodeVA, CornellTech, and STEAMAhead to launch AI summer camps across the country that serve as practicum experiences for teachers. In summer camps and in their classrooms, teachers implemented DAILy lessons on AI careers which seed workforce awareness among middle and high school students. Students first daydream about careers of interest. Then, they identify jobs that match their interests and investigate how AI might impact these jobs. Finally, they outline steps to attain their dream job.
Pillar 3: Strategies for Equity in STEM Education
Everyday AI partners with organizations that have strong community ties to assist with the recruitment of teachers and students of color. Within our PD, teachers are encouraged to modify DAILy lessons to fit their community context, increase cultural relevance, and provide students with choice and voice. Experienced EdAI teachers are invited to return as coaches to support teachers in their school or district. This mechanism has enabled EdAI to generate a diverse facilitation corps and support underserved communities.
Discipline(s)
Emerging Tech (Artificial Intelligence, Quantum Computing, and Blockchain)
Interdisciplinary
Target Gradespan(s)
Middle school (6-8)
High school (9-12)
Other
Target Participant(s)
Youth / students
Educators
American Indian/Alaska Native participants
Black/African American participants
Hispanic/Latino participants
English learners
Students eligible for free lunch or reduced-price lunch
Project Setting(s)
Formal Education
Informal Education
Category
Developing and Testing Innovations (DTI)