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Learn about Artificial Intelligence (AI)

NEW AI and Machine Learning Module

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Our new curriculum module focuses on AI ethics, examines issues of bias, and explores and explains
fundamental concepts through a number of online and unplugged activities and full-group discussions.
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Learn more (#about-aimodule)   Explore the module (https://studio.code.org/s/aiml?

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AI and Machine Learning impact our entire world, changing how we live and how we work. That's why it’s critical for
all of us to understand this increasingly important technology, including not just how it’s designed and applied, but
also its societal and ethical implications.

Join us to explore AI in a new video series, train AI for Oceans in 25+ languages, discuss ethics, and more!

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AI for Oceans
Help A.I. clean the oceans by training it to detect trash! Learn about training data and bias, and how AI
can address world problems. View lesson plan (https://curriculum.code.org/hoc/plugged/9/).

Try activity (https://studio.code.org/s/oceans/lessons/1/levels/1)

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How AI Works ×
Learn about how AI works and why it matters with this series of short videos. Featuring Microsoft CEO
Satya Nadella and a diverse cast of experts.

Watch the videos (#ai-videos)

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(https://curriculum.code.org/hoc/unplugged/5/)

AI and Ethics
Students reflect on the ethical implications of AI, then work together to create an “AI Code of Ethics”
resource for AI creators and legislators everywhere.

View lesson plan (https://studio.code.org/s/ai-ethics-2021/lessons/1)

In partnership with
 

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We thank Microsoft for supporting our vision and mission to ensure every
child has the opportunity to learn computer science and the skills to
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succeed in the 21st century.

NEW AI and Machine Learning Module

The AI and Machine Learning Module is roughly a five week curriculum module that can be taught as a standalone
module (https://studio.code.org/s/aiml?viewAs=Instructor) or as an optional unit in CS Discoveries
(https://studio.code.org/s/csd7-2022). It focuses on AI ethics, examines issues of bias, and explores and explains
fundamental concepts

Because machine learning depends on large Please

sets of select your
data, the language
new unit includes real life datasets on healthcare,
English
demographics, and more to engage students while exploring questions like, “What is a problem Machine Learning
can help solve?” “How can AI help society?” “Who is benefiting from AI?” “Who is being harmed?” “Who is
involved?” “Who is missing?”
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Ethical considerations will be at the forefront of these discussions, with frequent discussion points and lessons
around the impacts of these technologies. This will help students develop a holistic, thoughtful understanding of
these technologies while they learn the technical underpinnings of how the technologies work.

Explore the module (https://studio.code.org/s/aiml?viewAs=Instructor)

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How AI Works
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With an introduction by Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, this series of short videos will introduce you to how artificial
intelligence works and why it matters. Learn about neural networks, or how AI learns, and delve into issues like
algorithmic bias and the ethics of AI decision-making.

Introducing How AI Works PleaseWhat

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Training Data & Bias Neural Networks

Computer Vision Ethics & AI: Equal Access and Algorithmic Bias

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Ethics & AI: Privacy and the Future of Work

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Exploring the Ethics of AI panel discussion

Go deeper with some of our favorite AI experts! This panel discussion touches on important issues like
algorithmic bias and the future of work. Pair it with our AI & Ethics lesson plan
(https://curriculum.code.org/hoc/unplugged/5/) for a great introduction to the ethics of artificial
intelligence!

Videos about AI from other organizations:

• Seeing AI: Making the visual world more accessible (https://youtu.be/DybczED-GKE) (3:27)
• Fighting bias in algorithms (https://youtu.be/UG_X_7g63rY) (8:44)
• Machine Learning and Human Bias (https://youtu.be/59bMh59JQDo) (2:33)
• The Ethics of AI (https://youtu.be/GboOXAjGevA) (8:03)
• Machine Learning: Solving Problems Big, Small, and Prickly (https://youtu.be/_rdINNHLYaQ) (5:19)

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• How does your phone know this is a dog? (https://youtu.be/bHvf7Tagt18) (5:57)

• What is AI? (https://youtu.be/mJeNghZXtMo) (6:14)
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• Machine Learning Explained in 5 Minutes (https://youtu.be/3bJ7RChxMWQ) (5:14)
• Types of Machine Learning (https://youtu.be/wy-m6sd1BOA) (6:37)
• What is Machine Learning and How does it Work? (https://youtu.be/xr5LeWKbVnY) (3:51)

More resources

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CS for Good

Resources to inspire students to think deeply about the role computer science can play in creating a more
equitable and sustainable world.

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View Resources

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(https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/junior)

Imagine Cup Junior

This global AI for Good challenge introduces students to Microsoft’s AI for Good initiatives, empowering them
to solve a problem in the world with the power of AI.

(https://imaginecup.microsoft.com/en-us/junior)
View Resources

Activities Powered by AI and ML

Activity Description

A free app that narrates the world

Seeing AI (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/seeing-ai)
around you in a variety of languages.

Can a neural network learn to recognize

Quick, Draw! (https://quickdraw.withgoogle.com/)
doodling?

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Train a computer to recognize your own

Teachable Machine (https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/)
images, sounds, and poses. ×

Start exploring machine learning

AI Experiments with Google
through pictures, drawings, language,
(https://experiments.withgoogle.com/collection/ai)
music, and more.

Zooniverse - Snapshot Mountain Zebra Help protect the endangered Cape

(https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/meredithspalmer/snapshot- Mountain Zebra by identifying the
mountain-zebra/classify?reload=0&workflow=11445) different animals in the images.

Think of a person, even from a book or

Akinator (https://en.akinator.com/game) Please select your language movie, and this app will guess who
English you’re thinking of by asking questions.

An online game where you use machine

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learning to help screen candidates for
job interviews. In the process, you
Survival of the Best Fit (https://www.survivalofthebestfit.com/)
uncover how bias can creep into AI
applications and see the impact it has
on the people involved.

An interactive demo of several common

machine learning algorithms, with links
ML Playground (https://ml-playground.com/)
to additional resources to keep
exploring.

Teach and Learn about AI

Name Description Audience

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Access free
resources ×
including a
lesson plan,
videos,
computer K-12
Minecraft AI for Good (https://aka.ms/minecrafthourofcode) science (Reading
curriculum, and required)
teacher
trainings.
(Requires
Minecraft
Education)

Please select your language

English Spark curiosity
Free virtual workshops from Microsoft (https://www.microsoft.com/en- K-12
with free STEM
us/store/workshops-training-and- (Reading
and coding
events/students#page=1&pageSize=24&program=201&topic=20042049) required)
workshops. Submit

Train a machine
learning model
with text,
K-12
numbers, or
Machine Learning for Kids (https://machinelearningforkids.co.uk/) (Reading
images, and use
required)
it to make
games in
Scratch.

IBM: Machine Learning for Kids IBM: Machine K-12

(https://www.ibm.com/ibm/responsibility/initiatives/activitykits/machine- Learning for (Reading
learning-for-kids/) Kids required)

A new alternate
curriculum unit
for the
ECS: Artificial Intelligence (AI) (http://www.exploringcs.org/for-teachers- High
Exploring
districts/artificial-intelligence) school
Computer
Science (ECS)
curriculum.

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Intro to AI is a
free, innovative, ×
culturally
relevant
curriculum
where students
High
aiEDU: Introduction to Artificial Intelligence (https://aiedu.org/intro-to-ai) develop
school
conceptual
knowledge
about what AI
is and how it's
used in the real
world.

Please select your language

English A series of free
online courses
created by High
Elements of AI (https://course.elementsofai.com/)
Reaktor and the school
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University of
Helsinki.

An AI education
platform for
K-12
building games,
Cognimates (http://cognimates.me/home/) (Reading
programming
required)
robots and
training.

An
interdisciplinary,
adaptable
curriculum to
support high
school teachers
and students
High
exploring AI.
AI4All: Open Learning Curriculum (https://ai-4-all.org/open-learning/) School
Also includes
Teachers
the ‘Bytes of AI’
series, which
are smaller
lessons that can
be incorporated
in any
classroom.

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A middle-
school, project- ×
based
Middle
MIT: AI + Ethics Curriculum (https://www.media.mit.edu/projects/ai- curriculum that
School
ethics-for-middle-school/overview/) explores issues
Teachers
of ethics and
societal impact
of AI.

A project-based
curriculum
about making
interactive,
Please select your language movement-
English focused AI
Middle
projects. All
MIT: Dancing with AI (https://dancingwithai.media.mit.edu/curriculum) School
projects are
Teachers
completed in Submit
Scratch using
new AI blocks
to detect body
and facial
movements.

A beginner-
friendly self-
paced
introduction to
AI designed for
IBM: AI Foundations Self-Paced Course (https://www.ptech.org/open-p- high school High
tech/curriculum/artificial-intelligence/ai-foundations-powered-by-iste- students. School
and-ibm/) Students learn Students
the foundations
of AI and earn a
badge at the
end of the
course.

A series of AI-
related
activities that K-12
can be Students,
ActuaAI: AI Activities (https://www.actua.ca/en/activities/)
completed at- Teachers
home or as part or Parents
of an after-
school program.

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A new alternate
curriculum unit ×
Middle
for the
ECS: Artificial Intelligence (AI) (http://www.exploringcs.org/for-teachers- and High
Exploring
districts/artificial-intelligence) School
Computer
Teachers
Science (ECS)
curriculum.

A collection of
resources for
teaching AI in
the classroom
for all grade
ISTE: AI in Education (https://www.iste.org/areas-of-focus/AI-in-
Please select your language levels. Includes K-12
education) English links to projects Teachers
and activities,
as well as
teacher Submit
professional
development.

A collection of
resources,
activities, lesson
plans, and
professional K-12
AI for Teachers (https://aiforteachers.org/)
development Teachers
for
implementing
AI in your
classroom.

A list of
resources from
the AI4K12
Working Group K-12
AI4K12 Resources (https://ai4k12.org/resources/list-of-resources/)
for teachers Teachers
interested in
bringing AI into
their classroom.

AI for Oceans: Behind the Scenes

Levels 2-4 use a pretrained model provided by the TensorFlow (https://www.tensorflow.org/) MobileNet
(https://github.com/tensorflow/models/blob/master/research/slim/nets/mobilenet_v1.md) project. A MobileNet
model is a convolutional neural network (https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/practica/image-

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classification/convolutional-neural-networks) that has been trained on ImageNet (http://www.image-net.org/), a

dataset of over 14 million images hand-annotated with words such as "balloon" or "strawberry". In order to
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customize this model with the labeled training data the student generates in this activity, we use a technique called
Transfer Learning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_learning). Each image in the training dataset is fed to
MobileNet, as pixels, to obtain a list of annotations that are most likely to apply to it. Then, for a new image, we feed
it to MobileNet and compare its resulting list of annotations to those from the training dataset. We classify the new
image with the same label (such as "fish" or "not fish") as the images from the training set with the most similar
results.

Levels 6-8 use a Support-Vector Machine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Support-vector_machine) (SVM). We look

at each component of the fish (such as eyes, mouth, body) and assemble all of the metadata for the components
(such as number of teeth, body shape) into a vector of numbers for each fish. We use these vectors to train the SVM.
Based on the training data, the SVM separates the "space" of all possible fish into two parts, which correspond to the
classes we are trying to learn (such as "blue" or "not blue").

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