Learning Sciences Lunch and Learn with Areej Mawasi, PhD “Sociocultural, Ethical, and Relational Considerations through Design for Critical Engagement in AI-mediated Learning Environments”
Connect with colleagues during this in-person presentation at the GSE (Room 124). Pizza will be provided! Can’t attend in person? Join us remotely via Zoom!
Designing for critical engagement with emerging technologies, like artificial intelligence, is a growing need in learning environments. This lecture, based on two design-based research studies, emphasizes the importance of moving beyond a techno-centric perspective of AI in education, towards a more expansive framework that incorporates sociocultural, ethical, and relational dimensions of human-technology interactions. This lecture will: (1) explore the pedagogical challenges and educational possibilities in designing critical technology education curricula activities for historically marginalized and minoritized youth, using the Storyline Framework; and (2) present findings from a human-centered design activity involving 16 teachers from 8 countries, highlighting key perspectives of their perceived interaction with AI-Assistants. The lecture will conclude with discussing the theoretical and methodological implications of these projects, focusing on how design research can attune to the sociocultural, ethical, and relational dimensions in the design of AI-mediated learning environments and curricula.
Suggested Reading:
- Mawasi, A., Penuel, W., Cortez, A., & McKoy, A. (2023). “They were learning from us as we were learning from them”: perceived experiences in co-design process. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 30(3–4), 191–208. https://doi.org/10.1080/10749039.2023.2246039
Dr. Areej Mawasi is Neubauer Assistant Professor at Technion’s Faculty of Education in Science and Technology. She is the Principal Investigator of the Collaborative Design and Interactive Learning Lab at Technion. Areej was a Research Associate (2021-2022) in NSF National AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her current work focuses on co-design processes to expand teachers and learners’ engagement in critical literacies of emerging technologies. Areej earned her PhD in Learning, Literacies, and Technologies in 2021 and her master’s in Educational Technology in 2017 at Arizona State University, where she was a researcher at Center for Science and the Imagination and a Fulbright Scholar.