Samar
Abu Hegly

Advancing Research on Equitable AI Education Through a Focus on Implementation

Bosch, C. A., Gustafson-Quiett, M. C., Abu Hegly, S., et al.

Insights from a middle school computer vision module beta-test, examining how equitable AI education translates from research to real classroom implementation.

Supporting AI Literacy Teaching Through the Development of Assessments for Classroom Use

Masla, J., Bosch, C., Ravi, P., Abu Hegly, S., et al.

Developing and validating classroom assessments that help teachers gauge AI literacy in their students, bridging research and practice.

Act Out An LLM

Wharton, S., Masla, J., Guterman, L., Gustafson-Quiett, M. C., Bosch, C., Abu Hegly, S., et al.

An activity in which students act as a large language model to generate a sentence based on a prompt. Students are introduced to the concept of a token in text generation through a next-token-voting activity repeated until a full sentence is generated.

Lessons Learned in The Path to Accessibility: Enhancing the RAISE Playground for All

Presented findings and lessons learned from the process of making the RAISE Playground accessible to blind and low-vision students.

Introduction to the RAISE Playground

Led a hands-on workshop introducing the RAISE Playground, covering block-based programming, the Playground interface, example projects, and interactive coding challenges.

RAISE Playground demo

Demonstrated the core features of the RAISE Playground, showing how students can build interactive projects with sprites, blocks, sounds, motion, and AI-related extensions.