Tech Treasure Hunt: Promoting Children's Learning on How Algorithm Works at a Public Library
Yong Ju Jung, Jiqun Liu, Harun Karahan, Mahdieh Nazari · Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology · 2024
ABSTRACT People in this era are surrounded by data, but still, a lot of people do not fully understand what processes occur behind the scenes such as search and recommendation algorithms trained on data of varying forms. Even though not all children will become data scientists alike, enhancing such awareness and data literacy is essential for their critical thinking and becoming active agents in the 21st century. In this regard, as part of a design‐based project, this paper demonstrates our intervention—a summer program at a public library—where children and families learned about algorithms in playful ways and shows how they made sense with the concept of algorithms.