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=Project Name: Fostering an environment of success for First-Generation students =
''Project by Faculty Innovation Fellows Candidates Candidate [[Faculty Champion:Alejandra Rengifo|Alejandra Rengifo]] and [[Faculty Champion:Gustav Verhulsdonck|Gustav Verhulsdonck]]''
=== Why is this project important to you, your department, & your Fellows? ===
=== An Innovation Portfolio ===
Information sharing, event planning, activities, flyers, maps, surveys, fundraising ideas, etc.
=Project Name: Developing AI4ALL @ CMU: AI for inclusive and responsible futuring at Central Michigan University=
''Project by Faculty Innovation Fellows Candidate [[Faculty Champion:Gustav Verhulsdonck|Gustav Verhulsdonck]]''
===Why is this project important to you, your department, & your Fellows?===
Currently, my department investigates the uses of AI in education and how to prevent misuse. This project proposes a need for developing a practice of AI4ALL to develop equitable AI for all people including students, faculty and staff focused on human needs and sustainability.
===Description===
Under this banner, this project will focus on developing the concept and practice of “AI4ALL” for CMU/the CBA. A current Stanford-led initiative (https://ai-4-all.org/) features learning about AI and integrating this as part of changemaking. The goal of this project is to make AI accessible to CMU through the lens of AI benefitting greater humanity. Since AI represents many different things, the AI4ALL@CMU initiative wants to destigmatize AI as “techie” and instead frame it as crucial to everyone. Instead of framing AI from a proprietary, tech perspective, this project focuses on promoting the need for AI as a technology that needs to be inclusive, sustainable, equitable, and usable by anyone and deployed by all for greater human good.
The goal of the project is to create:
1) inclusive and low-stakes entry workshops for different stakeholders, e.g., students, faculty, and staff to experiment with AI outside of disciplinary or punitive contexts.
2) create visibility and changemaking to promote AI4ALL as a concept institutionally and develop communities of practice around it.
Preliminary process:
In terms of concrete steps, the following actions will need to be taken to foster a changemaking culture:
1) Create landscape map of stakeholders at my institution and identify institutional infrastructure and stakeholders.
2) Interview different stakeholders to gather insights into needs and existing infrastructure and environments for developing sites for future AI4ALL events.
Stage 1: Interview Associate Dean Misty Bennett, FIF Mentor Julie Messing, Dr. Troy Hicks, and Dr. Javad Nia on what their idea is for AI4ALL;
Interview Dr. Isabel Pedersen and Dr. Ann Hill Duin as to how they see AI4ALL & ask follow-up questions; then use snow-ball sampling to identify relevant stakeholders I could see.
Stage 2: Follow up interviews with different stakeholders
3) Organize design thinking ideation sessions on “Responsible futuring with AI4ALL” with stakeholders (e.g., students, faculty, staff) using the lenses of desirability, feasibility, and viability to identify concrete steps and actions for stakeholder needs.
4) Develop change model based on input from interviews, Design Thinking ideation sessions, with target dates for deliverables.
5) Develop and test prototypes for gaining recognition (ads, logos, ad copy), identify channels to advertise and high-impact places (CMU/the CBA) to foster interest by faculty, students, and staff. Connect with, and make use of, existing IDEA den to have students create AI4ALL@CMU stickers using Cricut machine.
6) Organize at least two workshop events to disseminate and recruit people to develop AI4ALL as a concept and practice that is embraced by CMU/the CBA.
7) Follow-up with stakeholders (ideally students, faculty, and staff) as to how they use AI4ALL and possibly embrace it in their future teaching and work.
=== Stakeholders served ===
Overall audience: Central Michigan University & College of Business Administration & Business Information Systems department: Students, faculty, and staff with interest in AI
'''Key Stakeholders for this project:'''
a. College of Business Administration (CBA), Associate Dean Misty Bennett
b. IDEA Den/Entrepreneurial Studies program, CBA, Julie Messing (FIF mentor)
c. Business Information Systems Department, Dr. Javad Norouzi Nia, member AI committee
d. Education Technology Department/Chair of Education Department, Dr. Troy Hicks, campus educator on AI
e. Dr. Isabel Pedersen, Ontario Tech, and Dr. Ann Hill Duin, University of Minnesota – Digital Life Institute (AI experts)
f. Other stakeholders identified after primary stakeholder interviews and snowball sampling.
g. Students, staff and faculty interested in developing AI4ALL
=== Key Milestones ===
* December 2023: Exploratory Interviews
** Conduct and complete exploratory interviews with main stakeholders on concepts of AI4ALL to identify ideas for possible workable prototypes for events, and low-stakes entry points for students, faculty and staff to consider how AI may benefit them and be used for humane and sustainable ends.
* January 2024: Training + Visibility Proof of Concepts of AI4ALL @ CMU
** Take AI4ALL training relating to this project at https://ai-4-all.org/resources/
** Modules:
** AI & the Environment, 2 hr;
** AI and ethics – 10 hrs
** Work on creating prototypes for workshop for CBA that incorporates concepts from this training in playful, interactive and low-stakes ways (e.g. Actions and “doing” with AI over reading)
** Create stickers for AI4ALL using IDEA Den and help from students and faculty.
* February 2024: (Adjusted date to accommodate campus semesters) Recruitment
** Preliminary workshop on AI4ALL, recruit students, faculty, and staff to “Responsible futuring for AI4ALL” sessions.
** Provide resources of AI4ALL to those interested to deepen their understanding
* April-May 2024: (Adjusted date to accommodate campus semesters) “Responsible futuring with AI4ALL”
** Conduct 2 sessions on “Responsible futuring with AI4ALL” with a focus on “actions + objects” that we can use to foster AI4ALL as a culture and concept at CMU.
** Ideally have a working group consisting of faculty, students, and staff that works on this project.
* August-December 2024: Practice
** Have people identify and use AI4ALL as part of their teaching, work, and general practices.
* January 2025: Reflection
** Gather data and artifacts from stakeholders about their experiments with AI4ALL@CMU in the classroom, and their ideas as part of future initiatives, workshops, or presentations.
* March 2025: Future goals
** Present AI4ALL outcomes and ask for feedback from key stakeholders to implement institutionally and at individual level.
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=== An Innovation Portfolio ===
# Curriculum for fostering AI4ALL on a campus.
# Prototypes of AI4ALL ad copy, designs, and leave behinds for possible future campus initiatives at other universities.
# Run sheets “Responsible future with AI4ALL” DT curriculum, including activities, and group worksheets.
# Stakeholder document for developing AI4ALL structure (people types, infrastructure, and activities to identify and develop AI4ALL at your institution).
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