Co-design Partners as Transformative Learners: Imagining Ideal Technology for Schools

Explore a 20-minute conference talk from CHI 2024 that presents a novel approach to co-designing technology for schools with historically minoritized youth. Delve into how this method prioritizes supporting students in developing transformative agency to change their educational environments based on their valued hopes, practices, and concerns. Discover how the researchers argue that focusing on relational development in co-design spaces leads to the emergence of expansive technological objects. Examine a case study involving U.S. historically minoritized students and their ideas about using artificial intelligence to support classroom collaboration. Learn about the innovative methodology of physically visiting spaces of collective agency as a means to imagine joyful, equitable possibilities for schooling. Gain insights into new visions for education and fresh metaphors for artificial intelligence that emerged from this approach.