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participants sorting AI cards
  • 20 minutes
  • About AI

AI or not AI?

This activity is designed to engage students in critical thinking about what constitutes artificial intelligence (AI). By sorting and categorizing everyday technologies, students will draw on their pre-existing knowledge to co-create a shared understanding of AI and its distinguishing features.

  • Created by Jessica Ann
build-a-bot-workshop-graphic
  • 60 minutes
  • About AI

How can I build my own chatbot?

In this interactive lesson, students will learn about AI prompting by designing, customizing, and testing their own chatbot. They will consider how instructions impact AI’s performance, and they will discuss the potential and risks of creating custom chatbots.

  • Created by Reuben Thiessen & Chris Mah
A digital illustration of a large, single digital foundation that forms a sturdy base.
  • 75 minutes
  • About AI

What is the global significance of foundation models?

This lesson introduces students to the concept of foundation models, focusing on their role in AI development and the countries at the forefront of their creation. Students will learn the significance of foundation models and explore the implications of a concentrated geographical distribution of these models.

  • Created by 'Joba Adisa
An image of popular large language models around the globe.
  • 75 minutes
  • About AI

What are “Large Language Models” (LLMs)?

In this lesson, students will learn about language models and why AI models like ChatGPT are called “Large Language Models” (LLMs). They will develop a fundamental knowledge of what makes an LLM “large” and how parameters are important to understanding an LLM’s capabilities, data needs, and power requirements.

  • Created by John Ball, CRAFT Student Designer 2022-2023
  • Adapted by 'Joba Adisa
Comic of two students discussing whether BERT and ERNIE are LLMs or Muppets
  • 75 minutes
  • About AI

Are BERT and ERNIE really AI?

In this lesson, students will gain a general overview of various Large Language Models (LLMs), their functions, and their applications in everyday life. By the end of the lesson, they will be able to explain what an LLM is, recognize its uses, and identify some of the popular LLMs currently available.

  • Created by 'Joba Adisa
A pair of glasses in front of computer screens
  • 60 minutes
  • About AI

How do computers see and understand visual information?

In this lesson, students explore AI “under the hood” by learning how sensory information is converted into data and used for mathematical operations that make an AI “intelligent”. Students will learn that visual data has features like brightness, and distance (like between parts of a face) and is used in applications like facial recognition. Along the way, students will be able to connect these technical processes to social consequences such as bias, and learn to treat AI with skepticism.

  • Created by Victoria Delaney
  • Adapted by Chris Mah
AI generated image of a humanoid robot with big blue eyes touching its face
  • 45 minutes
  • About AI

Is AI new?

In this lesson, students will watch an online video presenting the history of artificial intelligence, which goes back to the 1950s. They will also learn how current artificial intelligence technologies build on that history.

  • Created by Victor R. Lee
  • Adapted by Christine Bywater
AI Generated illustrated image with two wolves (of different species) with a question mark in between them.
  • 60 minutes
  • About AI

How does AI classify images?

In this lesson, students will explore the idea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) by looking at a concrete example of AI which uses machine learning to distinguish objects in an application called Teachable Machines.

  • Created by Danielle Martin, CRAFT Co-Design Fellow 2022-2023
  • Adapted by Reuben Thiessen