2019 Symposium Program - touretzkyds/ai4k12 GitHub Wiki
2019 "Teaching AI in K-12" Symposium
Location: The Westin Arlington Gateway, room: Fitzgerald B
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Thursday November 7, 2019
- AAAI Fall Symposium Series opening reception, 6:00 to 7:00 PM
Friday November 8, 2019
| Time | Session | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Welcome | Organizing Committee | Symposium Overview, and AI4K12 Initiative Update |
| Opening remarks | Chia Shen (NSF) | ||
| 9:30 AM | Keynote | Hal Abelson | From Computational Thinking to Computational Action |
| 10:15 AM | MS/HS Curriculum | Sarah Judd | All means All: bringing project-based, approachable AI curriculum to more high school students through AI4ALL Open Learning |
| 10:35 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 AM | MS/HS Curriculum | Kathi Fisler | Data Science as a Route to AI for Middle- and High-School Students |
| 11:20 AM | MS/HS Curriculum | Karon Weber and Anand Ankur | An Interdisciplinary Approach to Bring AI into Existing Curriculum |
| 11:40 AM | MS/HS Curriculum | Blakely Payne | Will YouTube pay attention to our ideas?: AI + Ethics in Middle School |
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | (on your own) | |
| 1:30 PM | AI Playground | Miles Berry | Jupyter notebooks for teaching AI |
| Yang Cheng | AI+ME; AI-IN-A-BOX | ||
| Thomas Deneux | ALPHAI robot for machine learning | ||
| Daniella DiPaola and Blakely Payne | AI Ethics curriculum; robot construction kits | ||
| Sarah Judd | AI4All Open Learning Initiative | ||
| Dave Touretzky | Calypso for Cozmo | ||
| 2:30 PM | Panel | Jared Amalong, April DeGennaro, Charlotte Dungan, Kelly Powers, Vicky Sedgwick | Teacher perspectives from AI4K12 grade band members, moderated by Fred Martin |
| 3:10 PM | Lightning talks | Nicole Cheetham | A High School Student’s Perspective on Artificial Intelligence Education |
| John Chapin | Machine Learning Goes to High School | ||
| Handeep Dhoot | AI Books for Toddlers (video) | ||
| Matthew Turner | Barriers to Convergence with AI in K-12 | ||
| 3:30 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | Teacher PD | Nancye Blair Black | Empowering Educators to Teach Artificial Intelligence |
| 4:20 PM | Teacher PD | Justin Reich | INSPIRE CS-AI: Innovative New Spaces for Practice and Rehearsal in Teacher Education in Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence |
| 4:40 PM | Teacher PD | Elizabeth Taylor | K-12 AI Outreach in Higher Education: Pathways for Implementation |
| 5:00 PM | Teacher PD | Caitlin Quarrington | STEM-based AI education in professional development for K-12 teachers |
| 5:20 PM | Discussion | ||
| 5:40 PM | Adjourn for the day | ||
| 6:00 PM | Plenary session (optional) | Ning Wang | Speakers from all 8 symposia will present brief (2-5 minutes) overviews of their key issues. slide |
Saturday November 9, 2019
| Time | Session | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9:00 AM | Welcome | Organizing Committee | |
| 9:15 AM | Pedagogy | Ning Wang and James Lester | Building a Research Foundation for K-12 AI Education |
| 9:50 AM | Pedagogy | Miles Berry | Computing in English Schools: Lessons to Learn for AI education |
| 10:10 AM | Ethics | Tom Yeh | Integrating Ethics into K12 AI Learning Experiences |
| 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | ||
| 11:00 AM | International | Larisa Schelkin | Bringing AI to K-12 Education via Global STEM Classroom® |
| 11:20 AM | International | Barnas Monteith | A Brief Comparative Review of Multiple International Approaches to AI K-12 Education |
| 11:40 AM | International Lightning Talks | Burak Gencay | CS in K-12 and supplement |
| Caitlin Quarrington | Supporting AI Literacy Through Informal STEM Education | ||
| Fredrik Heintze | Elements of AI: Teaching the Basics of AI to Everyone in Sweden (video) | ||
| Martin Kandlhofer and Julia Lassnig | European Driving License for Robots and Intelligent Systems (video) | ||
| 12:00 PM | Lunch | (on your own) | |
| 1:30 PM | Activity | Irene Lee and Fred Martin | What do you meme? : A participatory simulation for teaching about neural networks and machine learning |
| 2:00 PM | Informal Learning | Claudio Pinhanez | 30 Minutes to Introduce AI to Kids |
| 2:20 PM | Informal Learning | Elahe Javadi | Design and Implementation of AI Learning Cycles for AI Education in K-12 |
| 2:40 PM | Informal Learning | Yang Cheng | Teaching AI in K-12: ReadyAI's Workshop and WAICY as a Classroom Example |
| 3:00 PM | Informal Learning | Dianne O'Grady-Cuniff and Nora Blasko | Building statewide awareness of AI in K12 through district planning and teacher outreach |
| 3:20 PM | Tools | Jessica Van Brummelen | Conversational Artificial Intelligence Development Tools for K-12 Education See also this video |
| 3:40 PM | Coffee Break | ||
| 4:05 PM | Discussion | Everyone | |
| 4:30 PM | Adjourn |