AI_InMyLife: AI, Ethics & Privacy Transition Year Workshops
Year Awarded
2020
Amount
€41,572
- Organisation:Dublin City University (DCU)
- Audience:Transition Year Students, Post Primary Teachers - Senior Cycle
- Format:Informal Education
- Location:Dublin
Project Summary
‘AI in My Life’ will engage 500 Dublin teenagers from disadvantaged backgrounds in a 15-week (20-hour) co-created, interactive workshop series encouraging them to reflect on their experiences in a world shaped by artificial intelligence, personal data processing and digital transformation. Students will be empowered to evaluate the ethical and privacy implications of AI in their lives, to protect their digital privacy and to activate STEM career and university awareness. It extends the ‘DCU TY’ programme for innovative educational opportunities for Transition Year students from underrepresented communities in higher education.
Privacy and cybersecurity researchers and public engagement professionals from the Centres ADAPT and Lero will join experts from the Future of Privacy Forum and the INTEGRITY H2020 project to deliver the programme to the DCU Access 22-school network. Each partner brings proven training activities in AI, ethics and privacy. A novel blending of material into a youth-driven narrative will be the subject of initial co-creation workshops and supported by pilot material delivery by undergraduate DCU Student Ambassadors. Train-the-trainer workshops and a toolkit for teachers will enable delivery. The material will use a blended approach (in person and online) for delivery during COVID-19. It will also enable wider use of the material developed. An external study of programme effectiveness will report on participants’:
-Enhanced understanding of AI and its impact.
-Empowerment to protect privacy.
-Growth in confidence in participating in public discourse about STEM.
-Increased propensity to consider STEM subjects at all Levels.
-Greater capacity of teachers to facilitate STEM interventions.