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Co-designing community AI education through four key decisions: balanced topics, conceptual grounding, local relevance, and dialogical learning

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Description

This pattern describes the recurring design decisions the research team and community partners made when co-creating the AI education session. Balanced topics covered both positive and negative sides of AI; conceptual grounding used "educational materials suitable for a general audience without prior AI expertise"; local relevance drew on community examples such as deepfakes and local landscapes; and dialogical learning treated members as co-producers of AI understanding rather than recipients of expert knowledge.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Community partner involvement in feedback and revision rounds on session materials
  • Content accessible at an 8th-grade reading level with technical terms avoided

Constraints

  • The pattern was developed for adults outside formal educational systems in a community setting rather than academic classrooms

Target Learners

  • Adults outside formal educational systems in a local community

Learning Goals

  • Building a comprehensive mental map of AI
  • Understanding core AI concepts such as data, training, and bias

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Yao Lyu, Leonymae Aumentado, Holden Winton, Jared Lee Katzman, Sparkle Berry, Zachary Rowe, Kimberly Sanders, and Tawanna R. Dillahunt. 2026. Co-Designing Community-Centered AI Education for Adults: A Midwestern Case Study. CSCW Companion '26. https://doi.org/10.1145/3785651.3831486
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title Co-designing community AI education through four key decisions: balanced topics, conceptual grounding, local relevance, and dialogical learning
description This pattern describes the recurring design decisions the research team and community partners made when co-creating the AI education session.
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generated by process:settle-candidates on 2026-10-10
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