3 papers
cs.CY2024
Rethinking the A in STEAM: Insights from and for AI Literacy Education
Pekka Mertala, Janne Fagerlund, Tomi Slotte Dufva
This article rethinks the role of arts in STEAM education, emphasizing its importance in AI literacy within K-12 contexts. Arguing against the marginalization of arts, the paper is…
cs.CY2024
Finnish primary school students' conceptions of machine learning
Pekka Mertala, Janne Fagerlund, Jukka Lehtoranta +2
Objective This study investigates what kind of conceptions primary school students have about ML if they are not conceptually "primed" with the idea that in ML, humans teach comput…
cs.CY2023
Finnish 5th and 6th graders' misconceptions about Artificial Intelligence
Pekka Mertala, Janne Fagerlund
Research on children's initial conceptions of AI is in an emerging state, which, from a constructivist viewpoint, challenges the development of pedagogically sound AI-literacy curr…