Introducing AI Without Computers: Hands-On Literacy and Ethical Sense-Making for Young Learners
Hasti Darabipourshiraz, Maalvika Bhat, Duri Long · 2025
Middle school students encounter AI daily, yet they often lack the tools to critically examine AI's influence on their lives.We seek to address this issue by designing activities where learners engage with AI in personally relevant contexts and "unplugged" interactions foster collaborative ethical reasoning.We present novel designs of four unplugged activities that address learning objectives such as recognizing AI, understanding AI's capabilities, and reasoning about AI ethics.We conducted a secondary analysis of CHI EA '25,