CAS Conference 2025: Teaching about AI: exploring a data-driven version of computational thinking

As we shift to using and developing applications with machine learning elements, how can we help students develop useful (and correct) mental models of the data-driven parts of a software product? What different underlying competencies are needed to both critically use such applications and to develop them? To inspire our exploration of a new version of computational thinking, we will use a teaching tool created by a Finnish research team called Somekone. Don’t expect all the answers to what and how we might teach about AI; this is an opportunity to come together, discover and learn together.

 - Jane Waite , Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre