For this activity, you will be taking on personas to find digital objects or pieces of information to construct a narrative.
Part 1: Find your assigned persona group and read the prompt:
- Group 1
- Persona: You are an internet troll.
- Task: Find an anti-AI-in-education meme you’ll use to spam on X.
- (Example angle: “Robots replacing teachers” or “AI ruining creativity.”)
- Group 2
- Persona: You are a 35-year-old American male. Although you don’t have children of your own, you’re sick of the government interfering in education. AI is government surveillance in classrooms!
- Task: Find an anti-AI-in-education blog that agrees with you.
- Group 3
- Persona: You are the parent of a child who struggled after AI-based learning tools were introduced. You believe that AI grading errors are harming students and there is bias in AI educational tools.
- Task: Find a news source that discusses a similar situation to yours.
- Group 4
- Persona: You are a college student who keeps hearing about AI and if students should be using these tools. You want to know what educational scholars are saying.
- Task: Find major research on AI in education.
- Group 5
- Persona: You’re a grandma and your daughter just enrolled her child in an AI-assisted classroom. You’ve been seeing a ton of stories on Facebook about AI harming kids.
- Task: Find her information about AI in education to send via email.
- Group 6
- Persona: You’re a millennial who is super into alternative education methods (Montessori, Waldorf, etc.).
- Task: Find a source that proves that alternative methods are better than AI-driven learning. Is human-centered learning better than AI-based systems?
Part 2: Put all of the pieces of information together, whether on a digital board or printed out on a table. Examine each object as they relate to the topic and to each other.
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Part 3: Discuss the following prompts.
- What story or narrative do all of these objects tell individually and as a whole?
- If these artifacts (articles, pictures, memes, etc.) were the only pieces of information that someone had about the subject, what effect might that have on their view of the subject?
- How much influence do you think friend/family/social media have on someone's perception of a topic or issue?
