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Teaching Kids What AI Is (and Isn’t)
10/12/2022
Topics: Artificial intelligence
Today’s students are the first generation to grow up in a world with artificial intelligence. But many don’t realize it.
Designed to blend seamlessly with other technologies, AI operates invisibly…

Kids Teaching Kids — With Chatbots
01/25/2022
Topics: Artificial intelligence, Virtual reality
The client: A second grade classroom learning about nutrition.
The developers: Eighth grade computer science students exploring how artificial intelligence works.
The product: A chatbot capable of dispensing information about local produce.
Today’s students will live and…

3 Unplugged Activities for Teaching About AI
07/20/2022
Topics: Artificial intelligence
Today’s students will live and work side by side with artificial intelligence. But will they understand it?
What kids know about AI often comes from movies like Wall-E and The Mitchells vs. the Machines, in which they see robots thinking, feeling and learning…

Preparing Students for Jobs That Don't Exist
08/31/2021
Topics: Artificial intelligence, Education leadership, STEM & STEAM
Imagine a world where parents can genetically design and modify their own children.
Think it’s far-fetched? The cost of sequencing our personal genome is dropping, and genome editing technologies are growing more accessible. It could become a reality within the next decade or so.
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