Digital and AI literacy projects highlighted at United Nations Commission for Social Development (CSoCD) Panel on youth online safety

February 20, 2025

Ph.D student Haesoo Kim was invited to the Beyond Access: Youth Online Safety and Digital Equity side panel for the 63rd Session of the UN Commission for Social Development (CSocD) to discuss and introduce the role that academic research can play in bridging the digital safety divide. Various projects from DALI, such as The Truman Platform, Social media Co-pilot, and the YLAB initiative were introduced as examples of best practices in improving and engaging in youth online safety. The event was co-hosted by the Blue Tree Foundation, a South Korean NGO devoted to providing safe digital experiences to youth, the permanent mission of Paraguay to the UN, and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

See the full event broadcast here: https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1t/k1tbxblcyi

Revolutionizing education: New AI Scope and Sequence curriculum launched for PreK-12 students

January 21, 2025

The School Library Systems Association of New York, in collaboration with leading experts in education and artificial intelligence, including Natalie Bazarova and Qian Yang from Cornell University, has announced the launch of a comprehensive AI Scope and Sequence. Developed as part of the LibraryReady.AI project, with funding from the Allison-Rosen Foundation, this resource provides a dynamic framework for educators to guide PreK-12 students in understanding and engaging with artificial intelligence technologies.

See Press Release for more information.

Congratulations to the DALI Team for receiving the NSF Research on Emerging Technologies for Teaching and Learning (RETTL) grant!

November 21, 2023

The DALI Team has been rewarded the NSF RETTL Grant to work on Social Media Co-Pilot, an innovative AI-based conversational intervention embedded in an interactive and realistic online learning environment, Social Media TestDrive. The goal of this research is to enhance teen education on safe, responsible, and ethical conduct on the internet through AI-based conversation agents, which have great potential to improve digital literacy and cyber safety education because they can provide personalized, dynamic, and immediate learning guidance and feedback.

The youth social media literacy inventory: development and validation using item response theory in the US

July 24, 2023

Amanda Purington Drake, Philipp K. Masur, Natalie N. Bazarova et al. have developed and validated the Youth Social Media Literacy Inventory, a 90-item bank, that can be used to objectively assess youth’s social media literacy. Due to its excellent psychometric properties, it allows scholars to create scales of varying length and for different research purposes. Educators and researchers can use the inventory to assess the effectiveness of social media literacy interventions; compare levels of social media literacy across groups, schools, or populations; and assess antecedents and consequences of social media literacy.

Cross-cutting initiative to promote AI and digital literacy

November 1, 2022

With funding from CALS and Cornell Bowers CIS, Natalie Bazarova and Qian Yang have founded the Digital and AI Literacy Initiative in an effort to equip underserved communities with the resources to use digital technologies safely and responsibly.