Unlocking AI Literacy: The SMaILE-App Gaming Experience

AI's promise to become embedded in every aspect of modern life is quickly becoming a reality. However, a significant gap emerges in educational resources tailored for adolescents. This void often cultivates misconceptions about AI's capabilities and potential risks. To close this gap, we p...

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Published in2024 IEEE Gaming, Entertainment, and Media Conference (GEM) pp. 1 - 6
Main Authors Franco, Santiago, Ballatore, Maria Giulia, Bernardini, Sara, Como, Giacomo, Damonte, Luca, Neacsu, Alexandra, Vanelli, Martina
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 05.06.2024
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Artificial Intelligence
Educational Game
Entertainment industry
Focusing
Graphics
Knowledge acquisition
Merging
Statistical analysis
Surveys
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Summary:AI's promise to become embedded in every aspect of modern life is quickly becoming a reality. However, a significant gap emerges in educational resources tailored for adolescents. This void often cultivates misconceptions about AI's capabilities and potential risks. To close this gap, we present SMaILE-App, a novel educational cross-platform app designed to foster AI literacy among individuals aged 10 to 18. While inclusive, the app design is purposely biased towards rectifying the gender gap in STEM. Applying a constructionist educational framework, SMaILE-App promotes learning AI fundamentals through inter-active gameplay, merging entertainment with personalized knowledge acquisition. SMaILE-App comprises a suite of minigames in an engaging narrative, each focusing on a different AI concept, as well as interactive creational and instructive modules. SMaILE- App rests on two key ideas: AI is not a singular, all-encompassing term but a spectrum of methodologies, each with its nuances, and AI is not without its limitations.
ISSN:2766-6530
DOI:10.1109/GEM61861.2024.10585394