Our article on the AI4GA project has just appeared in AI Magazine.  This
is the first of four articles in a special issue on AI education.

  Artificial Intelligence Education in Georgia Middle Schools

  David S. Touretzky, Christina Gardner-McCune, Bryan Cox,
  Judith Uchidiuno, Xueru Yu, William Gelder, Tom McKlin,
  Taneisha Lee Brown, Bejanae Kareem, Woojin Chung,
  Amber Jones, and Janet Kolodner

  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aaai.70013

  Abstract:

  In a partnership between four universities, the Georgia Department of
  Education, and nine Georgia school districts, we developed a 9-week
  middle school elective called “Living and Working with Artificial
  Intelligence,” and a professional development (PD) program for
  prospective middle school AI teachers. To ensure that our curriculum
  could meet the needs of all learners, we recruited a diverse set of
  districts that included rural districts serving mainly White students,
  urban districts that were majority African American, and suburban
  districts serving a mix of Hispanic and African American students. Now
  in its fourth year, our “AI for Georgia” project (AI4GA) has provided
  PD to 20 teachers and AI education to over 1600 students. The AI4GA
  curriculum does more than foster AI literacy: It empowers students to
  view themselves as creators of AI-powered technology and to think
  about future career options that involve the use of AI. The project is
  now expanding to schools in Texas and Florida. In this article, we
  review the history of the project, discuss our co-design process with
  our teachers, and present results from studies of teacher PD and
  student learning.