Didactical part
If you are an adult trainer…use this methodology for faciliting learning about Artificial Intelligence
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Activity title: | What is Artificial Intelligence? |
| Overview | This activity is designed to facilitate the access of adults to structured information about Artificial Intelligence. |
| Objectives: | developing adults' abilities to explore the defining elements of artificial intelligence developing adults' abilities to harness artificial intelligence in everyday life, to a reasonable extent. |
| Materials: | Not necessary |
| Time: | 70 minutes |
| Group size: | big groups (20-30 participants) |
Instructions for trainers
Power point presentation, theoretical aspects- Artificial Intelligence - 10 minutes Video - What is Artificial Intelligence?- 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ePf9rue1Ao
Identify specific times when you use Artificial Intelligence. How did you feel? Reconsider your own earlier definition of AI. Is there anything you would add? How do you believe other adults would respond if you asked them about specific times when they use Artificial Intelligence? 2. Individual activity- 10 minutes Watch the movie and reflect! Should we be afraid of Artificial Intelligence? | |
Debriefing and evaluation How did you feel about this activity? What was the most applicable part? What did you learn about Artificial Intelligence? | |
Tips for trainers Encourage participants to reflect on how to use artificial intelligence, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of using artificial intelligence in everyday life. Encourage participants to be honest in presenting situations in which they have used artificial intelligence. Explain to the participants of the course the importance of conscious use of artificial intelligence. | |
Suggestions for follow-up activities Consider how you are going to use Artificial Intelligence in your day to day life. Remember the idea that AI is capable of solving harder and harder problems better than humans can. | |
Activity title: | Everyday uses of Artificial Intelligence |
| Overview | This activity is designed to put adults in a position to decide how they will act to discover / learn relevant and useful aspects of Artificial Intelligence. |
| Objectives: | developing adults' abilities to explore the defining elements of artificial intelligence developing adults' abilities to harness artificial intelligence in everyday life, to a reasonable extent. |
| Materials: | Flipchart sheets, writing instruments |
| Time: | 60 minutes |
| Group size: | big groups (20-30 participants) |
Instructions for trainers Review by rotation - 30 minutes The participants are divided into groups of four (by dividing coloured cards). On the walls of the room there are 5 flipchart sheets with one question. Each group goes by each sheet and answers the question. Questions on flipchart sheets (adapted from https://www.iste.org/explore/Computer-Science/3-unplugged-activities-for-teaching-about-AI)
After the rotation is over, the answers given are discussed, arguing the intervention methods for learning the elements related to Artificial Intelligence. Pair activity – 20 minutes Discuss in pairs and decide how you act! Write down the strategies chosen!
Communicate to the group the strategies that were written down. The ways of initiation in the field of Artificial Intelligence are discussed in plenary. The ideas are written down by the trainer, as the conclusions of the debate are drawn. | |
Debriefing and evaluation
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Tips for trainers
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Suggestions for follow-up activities Your goal this year will be to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). Did you know what are some everyday uses of AI? Some common uses of artificial intelligence that many people likely use every day and may not know it are (from https://www.gettingsmart.com/2019/01/teaching-students-about-ai/ )
Note some more things you want to learn about everyday uses of Artificial Intelligence! | |
Activity title: | Rucksack (adapted from Compass) |
| Overview | This activity is designed to make a synthesis of all the content elements in the session on Artificial Intelligence. The activity invites each participant in the training session to reflect on what he or she thought about the subject of the training, on what was useful and interesting to him or her, but also on future plans on effective ways to learn about Artificial Intelligence. |
| Objectives: | developing skills to reflect on the following aspects: understanding of AI, its history, and its evolution; AI implementation in everyday life; understanding the social and ethical implications of AI; developing the Future of Artificial Intelligence |
| Materials: | Flipchart sheets, markers |
| Time: | 30 minutes |
| Group size: | big groups (20-30 participants) |
Instructions for trainers For this activity each participant receives a flipchart sheet and a set of crayons. The trainer asks the participants to think about what they learned during the session on Artificial Intelligence and to draw themselves by greeting and carrying a backpack in which to introduce ideas about Artificial Intelligence, its history, and its evolution; AI implementation in everyday life; understanding the social and ethical implications of AI; developing the Future of Artificial Intelligence. The trainer asks the trainees to put in their backpacks everything they think they learned in the course and they want to keep and use. Here could also enter educational resources, ideas, people they met, new ways of relating to social and educational realities, values, new skills acquired, etc. Participants are also asked to write down what they would like to leave behind in a trash bin. There could be inappropriate habits, outdated ideas, difficult times ... or anything else that was a disruptive factor during the training session. The last point to the participants is that it is not important to make a drawing that can compete with that of an artist. I can use symbols, words, schemes ... the idea is to illustrate absolutely everything that would be kept from the course, as well as what would be left behind. After the completion of the activity all the flipchart sheets are displayed, to be viewed, in a walk of the individual gallery. | |
Debriefing and evaluation The activity allows the participants to carry out a review of all the content elements and of the practical activities carried out during the training session. Also, through this activity, the participants can also decide what is not useful to them and would like to put them aside. The gallery walk from the last training sequence ... is a facilitating element of consolidating the information and activities carried out. In case the details have been omitted, this moment offers the opportunity for each participant of the course to structure and complement the content elements. | |
Tips for trainers Recommend to the participants not to forget to introduce in the backpack: the beneficial elements of the training session, which they have learned about Artificial Intelligence, what more they want to know about Artificial Intelligence; how AI can be harnessed in everyday life; which are social and ethical implications of AI; the Future of Artificial Intelligence Also, encourage the participants to make a graphic presentation that helps them to structure the valuable ideas they hold. | |
Suggestions for follow-up activities Write an essay about future of Artificial Intelligence, starting from the following idea: ”The use of artificial intelligence in the world and specifically in education will continue to grow as more people explore the topic and develop new ways to incorporate it into daily life. The potential for learning through artificial intelligence means that participants have access to virtual tutors, can enrol in an online course taught by AI, and have access to the resources they need at the exact moment they need them”. (https://www.gettingsmart.com/2019/01/teaching-students-about-ai/) | |
If adults are not begginers in learning about Artificial Intelligence, you can use some of next activities!
Links to other activities with adults
The brain in a bag- The activity explaining how neurons in the human brain work and then create an artificial version that is programmed to play Red-black snap. http://www.cs4fn.org/teachers/activities/braininabag/braininabag.pdf
The emotional robot- This activity demonstrates how robot created by a University student reacts to the tone of a speaker’s voice. It responds by chan ging its expression to suggest emotions such as happy, sad and surprised.
http://www.cs4fn.org/teachers/activities/emotionalrobot/emotionalrobot.pdf
Create a face- the adults will learn to create a face which is programmed to react to different kinds of sounds (nasty, nice or sudden) and show different emotions (sad, happy, surprised).
http://www.cs4fn.org/teachers/activities/createaface/createaface.pdf
If you are an adult who wants to learn about Artificial Intelligence on his own …try this exercises!
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Activity title: | Artificial Intelligence |
| Overview | In this activity, the adult will work individually to understand AI, its history, and its evolution; to discover how artificial intelligence is used in everyday life; to understand the social and ethical implications of AI; to develop the Future of Artificial Intelligence |
| Objectives: | developing adults' abilities to explore the defining elements of artificial intelligence developing adults' abilities to harness artificial intelligence in everyday life, to a reasonable extent |
| Materials: | Not necessary |
| Time: | 2- 5 hours |
| Activity type: | individual |
| Group size: | Individual activity |
Instructions Individual exercise 1. Read the following information! The history of Artificial Intelligence (AI) began in antiquity, with myths, stories and rumours of artificial beings endowed with intelligence or consciousness by master craftsmen. The seeds of modern AI were planted by classical philosophers who attempted to describe the process of human thinking as the mechanical manipulation of symbols. This work culminated in the invention of the programmable digital computer in the 1940s, a machine based on the abstract essence of mathematical reasoning. This device and the ideas behind it inspired a handful of scientists to begin seriously discussing the possibility of building an electronic brain. The field of AI research was founded at a workshop held on the campus of Dartmouth College during the summer of 1956. Those who attended would become the leaders of AI research for decades. Many of them predicted that a machine as intelligent as a human being would exist in no more than a generation and they were given millions of dollars to make this vision come true. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_artificial_intelligence) 2. Search on different sites and answer to this question: Which are the differences between human and computers? 3. Reflect! Why artificial intelligence has been researched for decades, and has resulted in many useful products, but still no system that is as intelligent as a human. 4. Read and note! What is intelligence? Are computers intelligent? Why or why not? 5. Let’s look deeper into artificial intelligence. Read some article in the news about AI! https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/07/25/28-best-quotes-about-artificial-intelligence/#1f1e8134a6fc 6. Read and note: What is artificial intelligence? How is this different from human intelligence? 7. Watch some videos! Watch the video about Human Robots created by Japanese engineers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaTfzYDZG8c Watch the video about Human Robots Harmony https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=851Tx479ivM Some more examples about AI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCmt6atDzbQ Answer to this questions!
What Is The Most Advanced AI On Earth? Artificial intelligence is getting better every year, and its anyone's guess just when they will be taking over the world. The future of AI is bright! So what is the most advanced AI on Earth right now? How is this defined? Find some examples of uses of AI in our lives! | |
Debriefing and evaluation 1. What have you learned from this activity? 2. What's your opinion about Artificial Intelligence? | |
Suggestions for follow-up activities Your goal this year will be to learn more about artificial intelligence (AI). Did you know what are some everyday uses of AI? Some common uses of artificial intelligence that many people likely use every day and may not know it are (from https://www.gettingsmart.com/2019/01/teaching-students-about-ai/ )
Note some more things you want to learn about everyday uses of Artificial Intelligence! | |