Reaffirm learning-by-making through STEAM tinkering and critical AI literacy to cultivate epistemic resilience¶

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Description¶

The article recommends pedagogical strategies against outsourced thinking: "We believe it is essential to reaffirm experience and learning-by-making through STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics) tinkering practices to cultivate epistemic resilience". It further argues, citing Dale Lane, that "as long as teachers and students understand how to build neural network infrastructure at various scales, they will be better equipped to engage with the world", developing stronger critical thinking and awareness of what role AI should play. Maker initiatives should critically integrate ethical and aesthetic dimensions of AI.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Formative processes addressing AI's inner workings, limits, and biases must accompany critical use of AI

Constraints¶

• The article warns that ease of generating plausible arguments through LLM-mediated dialogue may risk disintegrating the essential experience of effort and resistance crucial for deep understanding

Target Learners¶

• teachers and students in K-12 through tertiary maker and STEAM settings

Target Learning Goals¶

• epistemic resilience, critical thinking, curiosity, creativity, and informed AI use decisions

Affordances¶

• Embodied Ai Post Cognitivist Framework

Related Strategies¶

• Build educator AI literacy and pedagogical competence alongside student critical engagement with AI-generated content
• Strategies for integrating GenAI in STEAM teaching: outcome-anchored lesson planning, differentiation, inquiry and project variants, assessment redesign, and integrity as pedagogy

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Ronnie Videla, Simon Penny, Wendy Ross. (2025). 'If you can't dance your program, you can't write it': Challenges and Implications for AI in Education. https://doi.org/10.1145/3759257