Google, AI Literacy, and the Learning Sciences: Multiple Modes of Research, Industry, and Practice Partnerships
It tackles the problem of AI literacy for the general population through industry partnerships, but it is incremental as it focuses on analyzing existing examples rather than proposing new solutions.
This symposium addresses the challenge of enabling AI literacy at scale by examining partnership projects involving Google, aiming to identify intersection points, shaping factors, and future opportunities for collaboration between research, practice, and industry.
Enabling AI literacy in the general population at scale is a complex challenge requiring multiple stakeholders and institutions collaborating together. Industry and technology companies are important actors with respect to AI, and as a field, we have the opportunity to consider how researchers and companies might be partners toward shared goals. In this symposium, we focus on a collection of partnership projects that all involve Google and all address AI literacy as a comparative set of examples. Through a combination of presentations, commentary, and moderated group discussion, the session, we will identify (1) at what points in the life cycle do research, practice, and industry partnerships clearly intersect; (2) what factors and histories shape the directional focus of the partnerships; and (3) where there may be future opportunities for new configurations of partnership that are jointly beneficial to all parties.