Sketch out a first draft of the workshop activities

[dennyabrain]

Overview

We have some workshops with students coming up where we want to demonstrate a feature, where now people can hover over slurs in their browser and see metadata about it. A video demo can be seen here. We want to make sure that for the workshops we focus on websites that have slurs for which metadata exist in the uli dataset.

[dennyabrain]

Idea : One of the workshop activities could be displaying all the contributions from the workshop on the screen and discuss/debate disagreements. This would give the participants a sense of the challenges and trade-offs of building automated tools.

[dennyabrain]

Idea : One of the ways to structure this workshop is under the theme of "co-creating resources for content moderation in Indian Languages". The agenda could be

• Introduce the problem of content moderation on the internet and social media
• Describe the challenges of moderation at scale
• Describe the disparity in quality for english language vs other languages
• Explain the role static resources like slur list and annotated tweets (uli dataset) play
• Activity : Have them contribute slurs using Uli plugin
• Activity : Participate in vetting the contributions and discussing differences.
• Demonstrate slur replacement with crowdsourced and vetted slurs
• Demonstrate Uli ML model on hugging face to show future directions
• Demonstrate Instagram Hidden words
• End with a Feedback and Discussion.

[dennyabrain]

Notes from call with @tarunima @kaustubhavarma

1. Add more interactive sections and discussions in the workshop. A discussion of "how many of you have seen instances of abuse directed at you or your friend".

2. From our experience with the flame workshop we know that students know a lot about the issue already, so we don't have to introduce basic concepts.

3. We should do separate feedback for teachers and the student. The teachers can be asked questions about the features themselves. With the students we keep the discussion about ogbv, civic efforts etc.

4. Within 1 week of a workshop, we will put out a 1 pager. We assume that lessons from these workshops will be useful for educators. Go in with a list of prepared artifacts that we need to collect before/during/after the workshop. for instance, demographic breakup (confirm with teachers later), photographs, qualitative statements. Assign 1 person to facilitate workshops and another to take notes.