Preservice Teachers’ Mechanistic Reasoning about Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Amy Voss Farris, Anna Kim · 2024
She investigates the intersections of scientific modeling and computing in elementary and middle school classrooms and seeks to understand how learners' and teachers' experiences in scientific computing can support their development of ideas and practices across STEM disciplines.Her teaching encompasses engineering education, preservice teacher preparation, and computational literacies in the Learning Sciences.She is an active member in the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS) and has published numerous journal articles and conference papers on children's scientific and computational modeling in school settings.Her recent work argues that understanding computational thinking requires accounting for the perspectival, material, and embodied experiences in which children's computing work is grounded.