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School Children and the Challenge of Managing AI Technologies Fostering a Critical Relationship through Aesthetic Experiences

Edited By Emanuela Guarcello, Abele Longo Copyright 2024
    302 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    This edited volume recognises the need to cultivate a critical and acute understanding of AI technologies amongst primary and elementary school children, enabling them to meet the challenge of a human- and ethically oriented management of AI technologies.

    Focusing on school settings from both the national and international level to form comparative case studies, chapters present a robust conceptual and foundational framework within a global context as the idea of AI and our relationship to it advances apace. The book uses research garnered from interviews and observational data, qualitative and quantitative research, and theoretical findings gathered from single schools or institutions across the world. Providing an innovative perspective in promoting the importance of a critical, creative and ethical orientation based on aesthetic experiences, the book focuses on development in areas like visual arts, literature, environmental education, robotics, photography and screen education, movement and play.

    Ultimately, the book responds to an urgent and time-sensitive call to provide guidance on AI to primary education researchers and will be of interest to academics, scholars and researchers in the fields of primary and elementary education, technology in education, children's rights education, and moral and values education more broadly.

    Introduction

    (Emanuela Guarcello, Abele Longo)

     

    Part 1. The relationship between new generations and AI technologies

     

    1 The “compound” act of transformation: the case of AI

    (Sara Nosari)

     

    2 Fostering intellectual and ethical virtues in the age of Artificial Intelligence. The need for educators-in-the-loop

    (Radu Uszkai)

     

    3 Artificial Intelligence and new perspectives for teaching/learning processes

    (Adelaide Gallina)

     

    4 Leading engagement and learning in, out and between digital and non-digital environments. Hybrid-transitions as a space for children’s agency

    (Federico Farini and Angela Scollan)

     

    5 The dystopian threat of AI in primary education: looking towards a utopian postdigital ecopedagogy

    (Abele Longo)

     

    6 Bolts or Brains: how elementary school children conceptualize A.I. and reason about issues of personal disclosure and privacy

     (Michael Creane)

     

    7 The challenges of managing AItech: new educational needs for new generations

    (Emanuela Guarcello)

    Part 2. Fostering a critical relationship with AI technologies through aesthetic experiences

     

    8 Aesthetic and techno-aesthetic experiences to educate school children in critical sensitivity and judgement

    (Emanuela Guarcello)

     

    9 The contribution of visual aesthetic experiences conducted through AITech to educate critical and creative thinking in the primary school: the field of visual arts

    (Francesca Pileggi)

     

    10 AI, new forms of reading and agential children’s literature

    (Victoria de Rijke)

     

    11 Aesthetic experiences as a space of possibility

    (Amedeo Giani)

     

    12 Towards a postmedia literacy: AI photographic filters, education, and self-representation

    (Giuseppe Previtali and Giancarlo Grossi)

     

    13 AI and robotics in education: catalysts and complexities

    (Andrea Loreggia)

     

    14 The use of artificial intelligence in various artistic researches on the problematization of physical space in relation to virtual space as a platformfor education

    (Bogdan Stefan Matei)

     

    15 Educating through creativity with AI, with a view to the development of critical thinking

    (Cristina Daju, Smaranda Moldovan)

     

    Part 3. Educational projects in primary school

     

    16 The Child –AI Rεlationship: the CAIRε research project educational experience

    (Emanuela Guarcello, Selena Notaro)

     

    17 International call for AI Ethics: children draft their Ethical Charter on AI

    (Emanuela Guarcello; Abele Longo)

     

    18. Aesthetic experiences and immersive virtual environments: the IVE4Thinking educational project

    (Emanuela Guarcello; Abele Longo)

     

    19 Teaching the principles of artificial intelligence to Generation Z: the SMaILE-App mobile game application

    (Giacomo Como, Maria Giulia Ballatore, Martina Vanelli; Sara Bernardini, Santiago Franco Aixela, Alexandra Neascu; Luca Damonte)

    20 The social robot Nao as an Intelligent Tutoring Robot: conducting the TCR test in primary schools

    (Renato Grimaldi, Sandro Brignone, Silvia Palmieri)

    21 The VR research on educational contexts in Mexico, a critical review of the literature

     (Carolina Santillan Torres; Miguel Santillan)

     

    22 Designing an artificial intelligence curriculum for primary schooling

    (Manuela Repetto)

     

    Conclusion. From experiences to educational practices: lead project for promoting a critical management of AItech

    (Emanuela Guarcello)

    Biography

    Emanuela Guarcello is Professor in Childhood and Primary Teachers Education, Department of Philosophy and Sciences of Education, University of Turin, Italy.

    Abele Longo is Senior Lecturer in Translation Studies, Department of Education, Middlesex University, UK.

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