Expanding AI Awareness Through Everyday Interactions with AI: A Reflective Journal Study
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.18845v1
- Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2024 15:26:34 GMT
- Title: Expanding AI Awareness Through Everyday Interactions with AI: A Reflective Journal Study
- Authors: Ashish Hingle, Aditya Johri,
- Abstract summary: Students in technology programs are poised to be both producers and users of the technologies.
This paper explores student's awareness and engagement with AI in the context of school and their daily lives.
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- License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Abstract: As the application of AI continues to expand, students in technology programs are poised to be both producers and users of the technologies. They are also positioned to engage with AI applications within and outside the classroom. While focusing on the curriculum when examining students' AI knowledge is common, extending this connection to students' everyday interactions with AI provides a more complete picture of their learning. In this paper, we explore student's awareness and engagement with AI in the context of school and their daily lives. Over six weeks, 22 undergraduate students participated in a reflective journal study and submitted a weekly journal entry about their interactions with AI. The participants were recruited from a technology and society course that focuses on the implications of technology on people, communities, and processes. In their weekly journal entries, participants reflected on interactions with AI on campus (coursework, advertises campus events, or seminars) and beyond (social media, news, or conversations with friends and family). The journal prompts were designed to help them think through what they had read, watched, or been told and reflect on the development of their own perspectives, knowledge, and literacy on the topic. Overall, students described nine categories of interactions: coursework, news and current events, using software and applications, university events, social media related to their work, personal discussions with friends and family, interacting with content, and gaming. Students reported that completing the diaries allowed them time for reflection and made them more aware of the presence of AI in their daily lives and of its potential benefits and drawbacks. This research contributes to the ongoing work on AI awareness and literacy by bringing in perspectives from beyond a formal educational context.
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