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- Irene Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Helen Zhang Boston College, Newton, MA, USA
Boston College, Newton, MA, USA
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- Kate Moore Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Xiaofei Zhou University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
University of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
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- Beatriz Perret Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Yihong Cheng Boston College, Newton, MA, USA
Boston College, Newton, MA, USA
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- Ruiying Zheng Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Grace Pu Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA
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SIGCSE 2022: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Volume 1February 2022Pages 202–208https://doi.org/10.1145/3478431.3499318
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SIGCSE 2022: Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education - Volume 1
AI Book Club: An Innovative Professional Development Model for AI Education
Pages 202–208
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This paper describes an AI Book Club as an innovative 20-hour professional development (PD) model designed to prepare teachers with AI content knowledge and an understanding of the ethical issues posed by bias in AI that are foundational to developing AI-literate citizens. The design of the intervention was motivated by a desire to manage the cognitive load of AI learning by spreading the PD program over several weeks and a desire to form and maintain a community of teachers interested in AI education during the COVID-19 pandemic. Each week participants spent an hour independently reading selections from an AI book, reviewing AI activities, and viewing videos of other educators teaching the activities, then met online for 1 hour to discuss the materials and brainstorm how they might adapt the materials for their classrooms. The participants in the AI Book Club were 37 middle school educators from 3 US school districts and 5 youth-serving organizations. The teachers are from STEM disciplines as well as Social Studies and Art. Eighty-nine percent were from underrepresented groups in STEM and CS. In this paper we describe the design of the AI Book Club, its implementation, and preliminary findings on teachers' impressions of the AI Book Club as a form of PD, thoughts about teaching AI in classrooms, and interest in continuing the book club model in the upcoming year. We conclude with recommendations for others interested in implementing a book club PD format for AI learning.
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February 2022
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