{"654858":{"#nid":"654858","#data":{"type":"event","title":"GVU Center Brown Bag: Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens \u2014 Co-Designing a Critical Machine Learning Educational Program With and For Children","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe world is becoming increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies that collect, store, and analyze our data. Such technologies improve our quality of life, but they also (re)inforce inequities and harm marginalized populations. As digital technologies become more ubiquitous, it will become critical for all young people to have a deep understanding of AI that empowers them to enact change in their local communities and globally. In this talk, I discuss how researchers and children collaborated to develop a critical machine learning after-school education program, in which children explored the social and ethical consequences of large-scale algorithm deployment and applied machine learning content knowledge. Findings show that children were able to 1) explain how biased training datasets could be harmful and 2) build robots for social good that used their own designed classification algorithms. Reflecting on these findings, I argue for the benefits of participatory design methods in designing critical machine learning educational environments, as well as the unresolved tensions that emerge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ESpeaker Bio:\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDr. Arastoopour Irgens is Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences at Clemson University, Director of the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/idealab.sites.clemson.edu\/\u0022\u003EIDEA lab\u003C\/a\u003E, and Vice President of the International Society for Quantitative Ethnography. She is a former middle school computer science and high school mathematics teacher. Her research focuses on (1) designing inclusive digital learning environments focusing on engineering and computer science and (2) using quantitative ethnography to make sense of how learners engage with digital technologies. In her design-based research, she engages in participatory methods that actively involve teachers, students, and community partners working together to co-design digital learning environments that serve their communities\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EWatch via BlueJeans Event:\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/vbtaraeg\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/primetime.bluejeans.com\/a2m\/live-event\/vbtaraeg\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGolnaz Arastoopour Irgens (Assistant Professor,\u0026nbsp;Clemson University) presents a collaboration with researchers and children to develop a critical machine learning after-school education program.\u0026nbsp;Reflecting on the\u0026nbsp;findings, Dr. Irgens argues for the benefits of participatory design methods in designing critical machine learning educational environments, as well as the unresolved tensions that emerge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"In this seminar, Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens discusses the development of a critical machine learning after-school education program."}],"uid":"33749","created_gmt":"2022-01-27 18:09:57","changed_gmt":"2022-02-03 18:28:57","author":"Dorie Taylor","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-02-10T12:30:00-05:00","event_time_end":"2022-02-10T13:20:00-05:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-02-10T13:20:00-05:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-02-10 17:30:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-02-10 18:20:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-02-10 18:20:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"654961":{"id":"654961","type":"image","title":"Irgens Photo 2021","body":null,"created":"1643643930","gmt_created":"2022-01-31 15:45:30","changed":"1643643930","gmt_changed":"2022-01-31 15:45:30","alt":"","file":{"fid":"248338","name":"Gol_2021.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Gol_2021.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Gol_2021.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":50088,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Gol_2021.jpg?itok=rBalsmTn"}}},"media_ids":["654961"],"groups":[{"id":"47223","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"1299","name":"GVU Center"},{"id":"69599","name":"IPaT"},{"id":"50876","name":"School of Interactive Computing"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gvu@cc.gatech.edu\u0022\u003Egvu@cc.gatech.edu\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}