EAAI-25

EAAI-25: The 15th Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence invites AI educators and researchers to share and discuss advances in AI education. 

EAAI website: https://eaai-conf.github.io/year/eaai-25.html

Schedule

Saturday, March 1, 2025

All times are Eastern US Time zone

8:30 – 8:40: Welcome, Narges Norouzi and Stephanie Rosenthal

8:40 – 9:55: Analyses of K12 AI Curricula

Chair: Kate Moore

Understanding K-12 Teachers’ Needs for AI Education: A Survey-Based Study
Nazan Bautista, John Femiani and Daniela Inclezan

Supporting AI Fluency Teaching Through the Development of Assessments for Classroom Use
John Masla, Christina Bosch, Prerna Ravi, Lydia Guterman, Sarah Wharton, Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett, Samar Abu Hegly, Calvin Macatantan, Eric Klopfer, Cynthia Breazeal and Hal Abelson

Advancing Research on Equitable AI Education through a Focus on Implementation: Insights from a Middle School Computer Vision Module Beta-Test
Christina Bosch, Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett, Samar Abu Hegly, Sarah Wharton, John Masla, Lydia Guterman, Calvin Macatantan, Eric Klopfer, Hal Abelson and Cynthia Breazeal

What Can Youth Learn About Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in One Hour? Examining how Hour of Code Activities Address the Five Big Ideas of AI
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin Kafai, Eric Yang and Asep Suryana

“From Unseen Needs to Classroom Solutions”: Exploring AI Literacy Challenges & Opportunities with Project-based Learning Toolkit in K-12 Education
Hanqi Li, Ruiwei Xiao, Hsuan Nieu, Ying-Jui Tseng and Guanze Liao

Artificial Intelligence for Future Presidents: Teaching AI Literacy to Everyone
Kate Candon, Nicholas Georgiou, Rebecca Ramnauth, Jessie Cheung, E. Chandra Fincke and Brian Scassellati

9:55 – 10:45: K12 AI Education Resources

Chair: Fred Martin

Designing Characters with AI: An Art & AI Learning Activity
Safinah Ali, Sara Jakubowicz, Ayat Abodayeh, Amaan Zubairi, Dalal Aldossary and Cynthia Breazeal

Word2Vec4Kids: Interactive Challenges to Introduce Middle School Students to Word Embeddings
Nathan Wiatrek, Yash Verma and Fred Martin

Learning To Think Like A Neuron In Middle School
David Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Will Hanna, Angela Chen and Neel Pawar

AI Chef Trainer: Introducing Students to the Importance of Data in Machine Learning
Saniya Vahedian Movahed and Fred Martin

10:45 – 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15 – 11:55: AI Tools for Modeling Students

Chair: Fatima Zahra

Can LLMs Reliably Simulate Human Learner Actions? A Simulation Authoring Framework for Open-Ended Learning Environments
Amogh Mannekote, Adam Davies, Jina Kang and Kristy Elizabeth Boyer

Exploring Iterative Enhancement for Improving Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Question Explanations with Large Language Models
Qiming Bao, Juho Leinonen, Alex Yuxuan Peng, Wanjun Zhong, Gaël Gendron, Timothy Pistotti, Alice Huang, Paul Denny, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu

Automated Assessment of Student Self-explanation in Code Comprehension Using Pre-Trained Language Models
Jeevan Chapagain and Vasile Rus

12:00 – 12:30: Blue Sky Ideas

Chair: Stephanie Rosenthal

TBA

12:30 – 2:00: Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:15: AAAI/EAAI Patrick Henry Winston Outstanding Educator Award

Subbarao Kambhampati

3:20 – 3:45: Model AI Assignments I

Chair: Todd Neller

Model Building and Risk Analysis with Health Survey Data
Sonya Allin, Lisa Zhang, Mustafa Haiderbhai, Carolyn Quinlan, Rutwa Engineer and Michael Pawliuk

Enhancing Data Science Education through Environmental Impact Prediction and Data Storytelling
Maryam Mirzaei and Mohammad Mahdi Ajallooeian

3:45 – 4:15: Break

4:15 – 4:55: University AI Courses and Curricula

Chair: Pulkit Verma

Comparing Artificial Intelligence Curricula in Canadian and US Universities
Rose Niousha, Lexie Jingruo Guo, Rick Kaifeng Li, Narges Norouzi and Lisa Zhang

Making Transparency Advocates: An Educational Approach Towards Better Algorithmic Transparency in Practice
Andrew Bell and Julia Stoyanovich

Towards an AI Course Based on Neural Networks
Michael Wollowski

5:00 – 5:45: AI Ethics and Applications

Chair: Christina Gardner-McCune

Fostering Epistemic Insight in AI Ethics Education through a Constructionist Pedagogical Approach
Ziyan Lin and Yun Dai

AI Toolkit: Libraries and Essays for Exploring the Technology and Ethics Behind AI
Levin Ho, Morgan McErlean, Zehua You, Douglas Blank and Lisa Meeden

Learning about algorithm auditing in five steps: scaffolding how high school youth can systematically and critically evaluate machine learning applications
Luis Morales-Navarro, Yasmin Kafai, Lauren Vogelstein, Evelyn Yu and Danaë Metaxa

An XAI Social Media Platform for Teaching K-12 Students AI-Driven Profiling, Clustering, and Engagement-Based Recommending
Nicolas Pope, Juho Kahila, Henriikka Vartiainen, Mohammed Saqr, Sonsoles López-Pernas, Teemu Roos, Jari Laru and Matti Tedre

5:50 – 6:40: Model AI Assignments II

Chair: Todd Neller

Differential Privacy with MedMNIST, Lisa Zhang
Sonya Allin, Mahdi Haghifam, Michael Pawliuk, Rutwa Engineer and Florian Shkurti

Shapeshifting Coloring Problems
Ashwin R. Bharadwaj, Anio Zhang and Rajagopal Venkatesaramani

Mastermind Has Entropy
Loreto Alonzi, Brian Wright and Ali Rivera

Lecture material and worksheets for AI Applications and Societal Impact – CS Core 2023
Giulia Toti, Shira Wein, Mercy Wairimu Gachoka and Li-Hsin Chang

Sunday, March 2, 2025

8:30 – 8:40: Announcements

Narges Norouzi and Stephanie Rosenthal

8:40 – 9:40: AI Upskilling

Chair: Effat Farhana

Developing a Postgraduate Program for AI in Medicine with Kern’s Six-Step Curriculum Development Approach in Singapore
Chang Cai, Michelle Jong, Yih Yng Ng, Jo-Anne Elizabeth Manski-Nankervis, Kum Ying Tham, Preman Rajalingam, Boon Keong Ang, Jennifer Anne Cleland, Joseph Sung and Xiuyi Fan

Using Case Studies to Teach Responsible AI to Industry Practitioners
Julia Stoyanovich, Rodrigo Kreis de Paula, Armanda Lewis and Chloe Zheng

Bridging the AI Gap: Evaluating the Impact of an AI Education Program for Caregivers on Parental Leave
Kristina Kupferschmidt, Flora Wan, Juan Carrasquilla Alvarez, Dora Gaviria Castaño, Graham W. Taylor and Sedef Akinli Kocak

Human-Computer Interaction for AI Systems Design: Reflections on an Online Course on Human-AI Interaction for Professionals
Per Ola Kristensson and Emily Patterson

Empowering Educators in AI: Insights from Co-Designing an AI Microcredential with and for K-12 Educators
Nicole Hutchins, Shan Zhang, Joanne Barrett and Maya Israel

9:45 – 10:45: AI for Everyone

Chair: Zhonghao Shi

Developing Chatbots for Sustainability: Experiential Learning in an Undergraduate Business Course
Dailin Zheng, Yu Chen, Yee Kit Chan, Erica Lai and Albert J. Leslie

Computational Thinking with Computer Vision: Developing AI Competency in an Introductory Computer Science Course
Tahiya Chowdhury

The Essentials of AI for Life and Society: An AI Literacy Course for the University Community
Joydeep Biswas, Don Fussell, Kristin Patterson, Kristen Procko, Lea Sabatini, Peter Stone and Zifan Xu

We Are AI: Taking Control of Technology, Julia Stoyanovich, Armanda Lewis
Eric Corbett, Lucius Bynum, Lucas Rosenblatt and Falaah Arif Khan

Shaping AI Interest in Rural Middle Schools with Unplugged Learning: Gender Differences and Teacher Insights
Hansol Lim, Danielle Boulden, Jessica Vandenberg, Veronica Catete, Wookhee Min and Bradford Mott

10:45 – 11:15: Coffee Break

11:15 – 12:30: Birds of a Feather

AI for the People: Education and Outreach Work at the Nation’s 25 AI Institutes
Fred Martin and Dave Touretzky

K-12: A chat with K-12 AI Educators, Bryan Repass
Laura Wojick, and Maura White

Disseminating AI activities
Rachel Chung and Somosmita Mitra

12:30 – 2:00: Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:30: Model AI Assignments III

Chairs: Todd Neller

Designing Culturally Responsive Lessons with AI: Enhancing Engagement and Inclusion
Eun Kyung Ko and Vishodana Thamotharan

Gender Bias in Word Embeddings
Shruthi Chockkalingam and Giulia Toti

AI & Employment Lesson Plan
Cunyan Ma, Daniella DiPaola and Cynthia Breazeal

“Guess My Passcode”: A K-12 Game-Based Introduction to AI and Backpropagation
Evan Shieh, Princewill Okoroafor and Thema Monroe-White

Large Language MadLibs
Kristin Fasiang and Duri Long

Spelling Fixer
Rasika Bhalerao

Act Out An LLM
Sarah Wharton, John Masla, Lydia Guterman, Mary Cate Gustafson-Quiett, Christina Bosch, Samar Abu Hegley, Calvin Macatantan, Eric Klopfer, Cynthia Breazeal and Hal Abelson

3:30 – 4:00: Break

4:00 – 4:50: Hardware and Robots!

Chair: Dave Touretzky

A Versatile Low-Cost Kit for Teaching Novice Learners AI Using Robotics Components And a No-Code Development Playground
Anssi Lin, Anssi Salonen, Nicolas Pope, Henriikka Vartiainen and Matti Tedre

Smart Motor: A Low-Cost Hardware and Software Toolkit for Introducing Supervised Machine Learning to Elementary School Students
Tanushree Burman, Milan Dahal, Geling Xu, Chris Rogers, Jennifer Cross and Jivko Sinapov

“AlphAI”: Teaching AI algorithms to K12 by training learning robots and visualizing how it works
Marie Absalon and Thomas Deneux

Using Explainable AI and Hierarchical Planning for Outreach with Robots
Rushang Karia, Jayesh Nagpal, Daksh Dobhal, Pulkit Verma, Rashmeet Kaur Nayyar, Naman Shah and Siddharth Srivastava

4:50 – 5:30: EAAI Community Meeting

EAAI-25 chairs

Stephanie Rosenthal (Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA) 
Narges Norouzi (University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, USA)