Getting Started with AI: Years 4-5

STEMLinc video conferencing: How do machines know what they know? In this introduction to artificial intelligence, examines the concept of intelligence through interactive activities like intelligent paper and an invisible maze game. Gain a deeper understanding that intelligence goes beyond simple storage of knowledge.  Ecolinc joins forces with Liberty Science Center in New York for this video conference. (Image: 98thPercentile)

Year Levels: 4-5

Duration: 50 minutes

STEM in a box: No

Background Information: 

Gain a deeper understanding that intelligence goes beyond simple storage of knowledge.

Prior Knowledge:

No prior knowledge is required.

Learning Intentions:

In this program students will:

• generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem
• integrate information from several texts on the same topic in order to write or speak about the subject knowledgeably
• use appropriate AI tools strategically
• evaluate how well a new tool has met its intended purpose and identify any shortcomings it might have

Activities:

In this video conference students will:

• interact with the expert educational presenters live from Liberty Science Center USA
• explore what machine intelligence means
• learn to use a teachable machine platform to train a simple AI model

Victorian Curriculum:

Science – Science as human endeavour

• Scientific understandings, discoveries and inventions are used to inform personal and community decisions and to solve problems that directly affect people’s lives (VCSSU073)

Digital Technologies – Data and information

• Acquire, store and validate different types of data and use a range of software to interpret and visualise data to create information

Digital Technologies – Creating digital solutions

• Develop digital solutions as simple visual programs

IMPORTANT:  Cancellation Policy

1. When you book you will receive an automated message from Eventbrite.  Save this carefully please.
2. Any cancellations need to be received in time for STEMLinc to re-sell your tickets to other teachers.
3. Please use the Eventbrite confirmation email to facilitate any cancellation of your booking.  That will automatically release your ticket for re-sale on our system.
4. Schools who cancel tickets for this internationally provided event (giving Ecolinc less than 2 weeks notification) will incur a $100 cancellation fee.