Program Schedule

last updated: Feb. 21, 2022

9:55 - 10:05: Welcome
Marion Neumann and Michael Guerzhoy

10:05 - 11:40: Panel: Teaching AI Ethics
Sheila McIlraith, Emanuelle Burton, Ameet Soni, Trystan Goetze

Moderator:Michael Guerzhoy

11:45 - 12:20: Blue Sky Ideas
Chair: Marion Neumann

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch Break

1:35 - 2:10: Model AI Assignments I
Chair: Todd Neller

(15 min) Movement and Visual AI
Jazmin Collins
(15 min) When Your Neighbor is a Zombie: Zombie KNN
Daniel Schneider and Yim Register
(15 min) Reflecting on Bias
Christopher Brooks

2:15 - 2:40: AI4K12 Lightning Talks
Chairs: Dave Touretzky and Christina Gardner-McCune

(5 min) AI Snap! blocks for speech input and output, computer vision, word embeddings, and neural net creation, training, and use
Ken Kahn, Ramana Prasad and Naveen
(5 min) StoryQ—An Online Environment for Machine Learning of Text Classification
William Finzer, Jie Chao, Carolyn Rose and Shiyan Jiang
(5 min) Teaching AI with the Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom Series
Nancye Blair Black

2:40 - 3:00: Coffee Break

3:00 - 4:30: AI4K12
Chairs: Dave Touretzky and Christina Gardner-McCune

(15 min) Smartphone-based Game Development to Introduce K12 Students in Applied Artificial Intelligence
Sara Guerreiro-Santalla, Alma Mallo Casdelo, Tamara Baamonde and Francisco Bellas
(15 min) I AM A.I. Gradient Descent - an open-source digital game for inquiry-based CLIL learning
Carina Geldhauser, Andreas Daniel Matt and Christian Stussak
(15 min) Towards an AI-infused Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Middle-grade Classrooms
Bita Akram, Spencer Yoder, Cansu Tatar, Sankalp Boorugu, Ifeoluwa Aderemi and Shiyan Jiang
(15 min) Introducing Variational Autoencoders to High School Students
Zhuoyue Lyu, Safinah Ali and Cynthia Breazeal
(15 min) Authentic Integration of Ethics and AI Through Sociotechnical, Problem-Based Learning
Ari Krakowski, Eric Greenwald, Tim Hurt, Brandie Nonnecke and Matthew Cannady
(15 min) Interactive Visualization of Word Embeddings for K-12 Students
Saptarashmi Bandyopadhyay, Jason Xu, Neel Pawar and David Touretzky

4:30 - 4:50: Coffee Break

4:55 - 5:40: Main Track I
Chair: Marion Neumann

(15 min) A Socially Relevant Focused AI Curriculum Designed for Female High School Students
Lauren Alvarez, Isabella Gransbury, Veronica Catete, Tiffany Barnes, Akos Ledeczi and Shuchi Grover
(15 min) Preparing High School Teachers to Integrate AI Methods into STEM Classrooms
Irene Lee and Beatriz Perret
(15 min) Reproducibility as a Mechanism for Teaching Fairness, Accountability, Confidentiality, and Transparency in Artificial Intelligence
Ana Lucic, Maurits Bleeker, Sami Jullien, Samarth Bhargav and Maarten de Rijke

10:00 - 10:30: Main Track II
Chair: Michael Guerzhoy

(15 min) Paving the Way for Novices: How to Teach AI for K-12 Education in China
Jiachen Song, Jinglei Yu, Linan Zhang, Anyao Ma and Yu Lu.
(15 min) An Experience Report of Executive-Level AI Education in the United Arab Emirates
David Johnson, Mohammad Alsharid, Rasheed El-Bouri, Nigel Mehdi, Farah Shamout, Alexandre Szenicer, David Toman and Saqr Binghalib

10:35 - 11:20: Model AI Assignments II
Chair: Todd Neller

(15 min) FairKalah: fair Mancala competition
Todd Neller
(15 min) Projecting Your Data
Chiawei Tang and Chaolin Liu
(15 min) Introduction to problem-solving with data: A Fresh Squeeze on Data (Improving data literacy among youth to help eradicate data bias in the future)
Roozbeh Aliabadi, Annabel Hasty, Sultan Albarakati, Haotian Fang, Harvey Yin and Joel Wilson

11:30 - 12:30: AI Educator of the Year Award Talk
David Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Fred Martin, and Deborah Seehorn

12:30 - 1:30: Lunch Break

1:35 - 3:10: Special Track: AI-Assisted Game Design Mentored Undergraduate Research Challenge
Chair: Todd Neller and Rick Freedman

(15 min) Game Design for Better Security of Combination Locks
Jean Pierre Astudillo Guerra, Karim Ahmed, Ryan Maher, Eddie Ubri and Jeremy Blum
(15 min) Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Build Ticket to Ride Maps
Iain Smith and Calin Anton
(15 min) Fast Heuristic Detection of Offensive Words in Wordwheel Puzzles
Anand Blum and R. Mitchell Parry
(15 min) An Approach to Identifying Problematic Game Elements
Cassandra Ford and Merrick Ohata
(15 min) Ludus: An Optimization Framework to Balance Auto Battler Cards
Nathaniel Budijono, Phoebe Goldman, Jack Maloney, Joseph Mueller, Phillip Walker, Jack Ladwig and Richard Freedman
(15 min) The Bullets Puzzle: a Paper-and-Pencil Minesweeper
Todd Neller and Hien Tran

3:15 - 4:30: AI for Education
Chair: Marion Neumann

(15 min) College Student Retention Risk Analysis From Educational Database using Multi-Task Multi-Modal Neural Fusion
Mohammad Arif Ul Alam
(15 min) DeepQR: Neural-based Quality Ratings for Learnersourced Multiple-Choice Questions
Lin Ni, Qiming Bao, Xiaoxuan Li, Qianqian Qi, Paul Denny, Jim Warren, Michael Witbrock and Jiamou Liu
(15 min) Improvement and Estimation of Automated Scoring Systems’ Performance with Guarantees
Yaman Kumar, Sriram Krishna, Rajiv Shah and Changyou Chen
(15 min) Interpretable Knowledge Tracing: Simple and Efficient Student Modelling with Causal Relations
Sein Minn, Jill-Jênn Vie, Koh Takeuchi, Hisashi Kashima and Feida Zhu
(15 min) Predictive Student Modelling in an Online Reading Platform
Effat Farhana, Teomara Rutherford and Collin Lynch

4:30-5:30: EAAI community meeting