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Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure ✕ Clear filters
Friday, June 19 · 3 sessions

8:00 AM

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Short Paper · ALP 1110

AI Literacy, Ethical and Critical Issues

Six short papers explore how learners build AI literacy and grapple with ethical and critical issues around AI. Topics include learning AI through game and chatbot design, hallucination awareness, how children's books portray AI, responsible GenAI use in STEM internships, and AI storytelling with Black girls.

Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure in a talk
6 talks
Long Paper · ALP 1700

Learner Interactions with AI Agents

Long papers examining how learners and teachers perceive and interact with AI agents, including shifting mental models of statistics tutors and science-lab chatbots. Studies also cover AI chatbots for teacher reflection and how anthropomorphic digital-human teachers affect cognitive engagement, measured via eye-tracking.

Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure in a talk
4 talks
Short Paper · ALP 2500

Multiple Meanings and Contexts of Play and Playfulness in the Learning Sciences

Talks examining play, silliness, and embodiment as productive forces in learning across math, computational thinking, and science. Topics range from robot-coding toys for multiplicative reasoning and decomposition, to humor in inquiry group work, embodied circulatory-system activities, and in-game learning supports.

Inquiry-Based Learning & Productive Failure in a talk
6 talks