Hello!
AI is Elementary
Susan Amsler-Akacem
&
April DeGennaro, PhD
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AI4K12 Working Group
We are a part of the Kindergarten - Second Grade, grade band.
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Why teach AI?
Because artificial intelligence is used so much in our everyday lives, we need to make sure that our students understand its impact and potential for the future of work and learning. - Rachelle Dean Poth, GettingSmarter.com
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Competencies & Literacies - values and impacts linked to AI education's unique potential to promote particular technical knowledge and skills
Personal Agency, Joy, & Fulfillment - values and impacts oriented toward the fun, fulfillment, and personal agency that can come out of AI education as positive for their own sake
Equity & Social Justice - values and impacts that promote fairness and address historic injustices
Citizenship & Civic Engagement - values and impacts focusing on AI education's relationship to social, cultural, and political participation
Technological, Social, & Scientific Innovation - Values and impacts promoting scientific, technological, and social advancement, whether around current goals or ones currently not on the radar of those driving innovation
Economic & Workforce Development - Values and impacts that orient toward professional life, industry, and the economy
School Reform & Improvement - Values and impacts that see the potential for AI education to work in service of broader school reform goals, benefiting teachers, school administrators, students, and the education systems they're a part of
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What’s Your Why?
5 Big
Ideas
in AI
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Go to resources
K-2
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Go to resources
3-5
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Collect data using Google Forms, pictures from the Internet, pictures from magazines, etc.
Students look at data collected and make sure there is enough diverse data and that data that doesn't apply is removed
Students identify the features/patterns that differentiate pieces of data from one another. They should be able to explain why a piece of data belongs in a particular category.
Create labels for categories of data and place data in the appropriate category.
Students get a new piece of data and put it in a category based on their "why" from the Training step.
Discuss why the new piece of data was classified the way it was.
Bias
Classifying
“Data” Collection Activity For Any Subject (Big Idea #3 -Datasets, Bias, & Machine Learning Systems)
Data
Collection
Limitations
Labeling
Training
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Differences between human and machine learning
Supplies: 2 objects (stuffed animals for this example)
Activity: Students stand in a circle in the room.
The leader of the game starts by passing the first object
A stuffed pig) to the person on their right (Person A) saying, “This is a DUCK.”
Person A replies, “A What?”
The leader clarifies, “A duck.”
Person A then turns to the person on their
right (Person B) and says, “This is a duck.”
Person B, “A what?”
Person A, turns to Leader, and asks, “This is a What?”
Leader to Person A, “A duck!”
Person A to Person B, “A duck!”
Person B replies, “Oh, a duck!” and then turns to Person C, and continue.
“A What Game” (Big Idea #3 - What is Learning?)
Allow time for each object to go around and students learn the activity. When time allows add the additional object (a stuffed horse), call it a hippopotamus and pass in the opposite direction. Eventually, students are receiving and passing two objects and conversations at a time.
The activity can go on as long or as short as students allow (depending on their age). Once the activity is over, ask the students how they learned during the game, what made it easy or difficult, and how were they able to keep the two separated.
Explain that no matter how many times we showed the computer the pig stuffed animal, it would always answer pig and never duck.
Characteristics of Human Learning
TEACHING
is more than
IMPARTING
Knowledge
it is inspiring
CHANGE.
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Contact Information
Susan Amsler-Akacem (A-Squared)
Technology Innovator and Educational Technology Dept. Head
Lincoln School
Providence Rhode Island
samsler-akacem@lincolnschool.org
@A-Squared
401-331-9696
April DeGennaro, PhD
Enrichment Teacher/Gifted Specialist
Peeples Elementary
Fayetteville, Georgia
degennaro,april@mail.fcboe.org
@AprilDeGennaro
770-486-2734
Questions?
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