 image source: https://medium.com/the-ai-education-project/introducing-the-ai-education-project-3c1f1fc31fd2 As I continue my journey exploring AI and its implications for teaching and learning, I spent some time reviewing the curriculum available at The AI Education Project. Their site has free curriculum available for students and educators as well as information for advocates. They have partnered with some of the big tech companies including Google, OpenAI, Microsoft and GitHub and have a mission to create equitable learning experiences that teach foundational AI skills. There are high interest, flexible lessons and activities that range from 5 minute warm ups to a semester long Introductory course. The AI Education Project implements culturally relevant pedagogy and project-based learning as a foundation for their curriculum and the content choices reflect a broad range of topics that teachers of any subject matter can find relevant.
AI Snapshots offer 180 five minute warmups organized by the four core subject areas: English, Math, Science and Social Studies. Each warm-up starts with a slide that asks students a thought-provoking question or design challenge. Then there is a second slide titled: Things You May Have Considered. That helps students and teachers explore the topic more deeply. It's a great way to get students to begin to think about the complexities and impact of AI in various disciplines and aspects of our lives. There are also AI Challenges that students can work through on their own that challenge students in timely tasks such as proving they are smarter than ChatGPT and improving their TikTok algorithm. These are wonderfully engaging independent lessons for curious high schoolers to try. For Computer Science and Technology teachers who are interested in bringing AI into their curriculum, the AI Education Projects offers a Project Dashboard that provides project-based learning on a variety of topics related to AI. One of my favorite projects on the dashboard is The 29 A.Is of Washington D.C. where students follow the journey of individual citizens and see how their lives are impacted by AI. It is a memorable, equity-focused lesson that drives home the problem of bias inherent in AI systems. The Intro to AI course is an incredibly thoughtful and well-designed course that provides foundational skills in AI while having students create their own AI recommendation system using Hugging Face. The course includes lesson plans, a teacher's guide, a slide deck and a student workbook. While this course is recommended for 10 weeks, it could easily be built out to last an entire semester. This course is one of the best examples of culturally relevant pedagogy in the field of computer science that I have seen. It gets students to consider AI in ways that are based in the real world. It has them explore biases inherent in data and gives students ample choice to explore their own interests. Furthermore it provides teachers with explicit guidelines to teach the course in a way that makes it accessible to those who may feel a bit intimidated to teach a course in AI. Finally, the AI Education Project offers live professional development and toolkits for educators and advocates who are interested in getting AI implemented in their classrooms, schools, and districts. The AI Education Project is doing incredible work in the field of equity focused and civic-minded computer science education. I highly recommend it as a place to go to find curriculum and guidelines related to teaching AI. Comments are closed.
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