Knowledge Net: Fostering Children’s Understanding of Knowledge Representations Through Creative Making and Embodied Interaction in a Museum Exhibit

As young people increasingly use AI in their daily lives, it is imperative to foster these learners’ AI literacy. We present Knowledge Net, a collaborative tangible tabletop museum exhibit aimed at teaching users about knowledge representations, which are central to understanding AI and understudied in AI education research. In this exhibit, we center creative making and embodied interaction by allowing learners to craft the appearance, behaviors, and traits of characters in a virtual world by manipulating semantic networks. Our poster features the exhibit design and corresponding rationale, and this paper contributes an exploration of how creative making and embodied interaction can be utilized to teach young learners about knowledge representations–and AI more broadly–in informal learning environments.