S.P.O.T: A Game-Based Application for Fostering Critical Machine Learning Literacy Among Children
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This paper describes S.P.O.T., a game-based application for promoting children's practical understanding of ML concepts and applications. Current tools for teaching ML in K-12 engage students in playful exploration of ML mechanisms and teach ML from a cognitive perspective. However, in S.P.O.T, learners interact with ML within real-life sociopolitical contexts and examine how ML predictions impact their daily lives and communities. Through the immersion of stories that mirror children's lived experiences, S.P.O.T. provides elementary school aged children with opportunities to learn how machine learning applications function and develop children's abilities to critically examine, question, and reimagine the consequences of ML decisions in the real world.
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- Authors
- Adisa, I. O., Thompson, I., Famaye, T., Sistla, D., Bailey, C. S., Mulholland, K., Fecher, A., Lancaster, C. M., & Arastoopour Irgens, G.
- Affiliations
- Clemson University (US)
- Learning Sciences, Clemson University, United States
- ORCID
- Venue
- Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
- Publisher
- ACM
- Published
- 2023-06-19
- Pages
- 507-511
- OpenAlex
- W4380668146
- Cited by
- 18
- References
- 15
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 4 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 1
- FWCI
- 19.19
- Type
- conference paper
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC) (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (2031175, 2024965)
- Clemson University
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Educational Games and Gamification
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Science Applications › Teaching and Learning Programming
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Keywords
- game-based learning, children, primary education, K-12 education, critical thinking, storytelling, computational thinking
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