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Working Group on Educational Theory and Practices of Critical Computational Literacy
education - computation - critique

TRR 318 – Constructing Explainability

Explainable AI AI Literacy Workshops

The Collaborative Research Centre/Transregio 318 “Constructing Explainability” investigates how people can be actively involved in the processes by which algorithmic decisions are explained. Rather than treating explanations as something delivered to passive recipients, the centre develops the foundations of co-constructive explanation, in which explainer and explainee shape understanding together — so that users can make informed decisions and participate critically in a digital society.

Around 75 researchers from linguistics, psychology, media studies, sociology, economics, computer science, and philosophy work together at Paderborn University and Bielefeld University across three research areas: explanation processes, explaining as a social practice, and the representation and computation of explanations.

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Ula (Sowa) Przybylska explores playful approaches to critical AI literacy within the project WIKO.

Michael Lenke explores practices of prompting and educational theory in computing education in project WIKO.

Together both design and conducts Co-Construction Workshops (CCWS) aimed at improving people’s interaction with and understanding of artificial intelligence.