Pasta Land Activity

Students create their own decision trees that can be used to classify various types of pasta. This activity introduces the concepts of a decision tree, classification, and bias.

3.6 Roadmap to My Dream Job Lesson

In this activity, students will create their personal roadmaps to their dream jobs using what they have learned in the career sessions.

3.5 Redesign Youtube Lesson

In this lesson, students will redesign the YouTube recommendation algorithm to meet their needs and reduce bias. This is a culminating project that can span several days of work and spark student reflection on lessons learned from the curriculum.

3.4 Environmental Impact of AI Lesson

In this lesson, students will explore the environmental impact of training AI models. Students will learn that the design of AI algorithms can have consequences for the environment.

3.3 Spread of Misinformation Lesson

In this lesson, students will be able to tell what misinformation is and understand that it spreads faster than authentic information. In the first lesson, students will play out a game in which they spread misinformation and reflect on their choices. In the second one, they will learn how to spot misinformation and come up with solutions on how to stop it.

3.1 Unanticipated Consequences of Technology Lesson

This lesson introduces students to the potential consequences of AI technologies and shows them that such consequences may or may not be the ones we intended or anticipated. Students will learn that AI technologies can have unanticipated effects on seemingly unrelated systems (e.g., social, cultural, environmental, etc.)

2.3 AI Generated Art Lesson

In this lesson, students will explore various forms of AI-generated art. They will engage in a conversation about what is art and who can make art.

2.2 How do GANs Work? Lesson

This lesson introduces students to how GANs work as a result of the interplay between generator and discriminator neural networks. Students will learn how the generator and discriminator compete with one another to generate text, images, videos, and more.

2.1 What are GANs? Lesson

In this lesson, students will learn that GANs can generate art such as photographs, paintings, handwritten poetry, music, and jokes (that are kind of funny! Maybe.)

1.5 Planting the Seed of STEM Jobs Lesson

In this activity, students will learn about what STEM jobs are, why they should consider STEM jobs, and why it is important for everyone to participate in STEM jobs.

1.4 Inventory of Me Lesson

In this activity, students will learn about Holland’s work personality types and examples of jobs favored by people with each type. This lesson requires the students to use the Internet to answer a survey and explore a website.

1.3 Classifying AI vs. Generating AI Lesson

In this lesson, students experience the process of generation and classification as they mix colors on an online platform and observe that they can create a varied palette of colors with a few input colors. Students will learn about examples of AI systems that perform classification and generation and practice distinguishing between generating and classifying AIs.

1.1 Introduction to Supervised Machine Learning Lesson

This lesson introduces students to how supervised machine learning can be trained to classify complex datasets based on labeled data. Students will train their teachable machine models and learn that AI can learn from labeled data. They will also revisit the idea that training AI systems with an increasing amount of data does not necessarily mitigate bias if there’s not enough diversity in the data.

0.6 Career Daydream Lesson

In this lesson, students will daydream about what a typical work day is going to be like in 30 years. The instructor will read a pre-written script to help students meditate and guide them to share their answers.

0.5 Investigating Bias Lesson

This lesson shows students that unfairly trained AI systems can be far from objective and neutral. Students will recognize that AI systems can be unfairly trained and that there are several strategies that AI designers can use to mitigate biases in AIs.

0.2 Algorithms as Opinions Lesson

This lesson introduces students to what an algorithm is, using the making of peanut butter jelly sandwiches as an example. Students will learn that an algorithm is like a recipe and that different people tend to prefer different algorithms based on their varied interests and goals.

AI or Not? Activity

A sorting activity in which students sort pictures of contemporary technology into two groups: technology with AI and technology without AI. The activity is designed to get students thinking about the three parts of ML (dataset, learning algorithm, prediction) as a tool for determining whether the technology in their everyday life uses AI or not.

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