CBSE | DEPARTMENT OF SKILL EDUCATION

CURRICULUM FOR SESSION 2020-2021

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (SUB. CODE 843)
CLASS – XI

COURSE OVERVIEW:

AI is a discipline in computer science that focuses on developing intelligent machines, machines that
can learn and then teach themselves. These machines, then, can process vast amounts of data than
humans can, and several times faster. However, AI can go across all disciplines to change the world
for the better– from creating new healthcare solutions, to designing hospitals of the future, improving
farming and our food supply, helping refugees acclimate to new environments, improving
educational resources and access, and even cleaning our oceans, air, and water supply. The
potential for humans to improve the world through AI is endless, as long as we know how to use it.

OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE:

In this course, the students will develop knowledge, skills and values to understand AI and its
implications for our society and the world and to use AI to solve authentic problems, now and in the
future. The students will engage with a host of multi-media online resources, as well as hands-on
activities and sequence of learning experiences.

The following are the main objections of the course:

1. Develop informed citizens with an understanding of AI and the skills to think critically and
knowledgeably about the implications of AI for society and the world
2. Develop engaged citizens with a rigorous understanding of how AI can be harnessed to
improve life and the world we live in
3. Stimulate interest and prepare students for further study to take up careers as AI scientists
and developers to solve complex real world problems

SCHEME OF UNITS

This course is a planned sequence of instructions consisting of units meant for developing
employability and vocational competencies of students of Class XI opting for skill subject along with
other education subjects. The unit-wise distribution of hours and marks for class XI is as follows:

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 CLASS – XI (SESSION 2020-2021)
Total Marks: 100 (Theory - 50 + Practical - 50)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (SUBJECT CODE - 843)

Class XI(Session 2020-21)
HOURS MAX. MARKS
UNITS (Theory + (Theory +
Practical) Practical)
Employability Skills
Unit 1 : Communication Skills-III 10
Part A

Unit 2 : Self-Management Skills-III 10

Unit 3 : ICTSkills-III 10 10
Unit 4 : Entrepreneurial Skills-III 15
Unit 5 : Green Skills-III 05
Total 50 10
Subject Specific Skills
Unit1: Introduction To AI 30
Unit 2: AI Applications & Methodologies* 30
Unit 3:Maths For AI 10
Unit 4: AI Values (Ethical Decision Making) 5
Unit 5: Introduction To Storytelling* 20
Part B

Unit 6: Critical & Creative Thinking* 5 40

Unit 7: Data Analysis (Computational Thinking)* 30
Unit 8: Regression 30
Unit 9: Classification & Clustering 20
Unit 10: AI Values (Bias Awareness)* 30
*Unit 2, 5, 6, 7 & 10 are to be Assessed through
Practicals Only
Total 210 40
Practical Work –
 Unit 2: AI Applications & Methodologies
 Unit 5: Introduction To Storytelling
Part C

 Unit 6: Critical & Creative Thinking

 Unit 7: Data Analysis (Computational Thinking)
 Unit 10: AI Values (Bias Awareness)
Practical Examination
40
Viva-Voce
Total 40
Project Work/Field Visit
Part D

Project/Ideation+ presentation
10
Viva-Voce
Total 10
GRAND TOTAL 260 100

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 DETAILED CURRICULUM/TOPICS FOR CLASS XI

PART-A: EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

S. No. Units Duration in Hours

1. Unit 1: Communication Skills-III 10
2. Unit 2: Self-management Skills-III 10
3. Unit 3: Information and Communication Technology Skills-III 10
4. Unit 4: Entrepreneurial Skills-III 15
5. Unit 5: Green Skills-III 05
TOTAL 50

NOTE: For Detailed Curriculum/ Topics to be covered under Part A:

Employability Skillscan be downloaded from CBSE website.

Part-B – SUBJECT SPECIFIC SKILLS

 Level I:AI Informed (AI Foundations) -

o Unit1: Introduction to AI
o Unit 2: AI Applications & Methodologies*
o Unit 3: Math for AI
o Unit 4: AI Values (Ethical Decision Making)
o Unit 5: Introduction to Storytelling*

 Level 2: AI Inquired (AI Apply)

o Unit 6: Critical & Creative Thinking*

o Unit 7: Data Analysis (Computational Thinking)*
o Unit 8: Regression
o Unit 9: Classification & Clustering
o Unit 10: AI Values (Bias Awareness)*

NOTE: *UNITS 2, 5, 6, 7 & 10 should be assessed in Practical

Examination only and should not be assessed in Theory
Examination.

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 DETAILED CURRICULUM/TOPICS
LEVEL I:AI INFORMED (AI Foundations) -
UNIT TOPICS LEARNING OUTCOMES
Unit 1: Introduction-AI for everyone
Introduction Knowledge – Define AI and ML
 What is AI?
(knowledge) o Kids can AI
Comprehension – What are
 History of AI
the AI products/applications in
 What is Machine Learning
society and how are they
o Difference between conventional
different from non-AI
programming and machine learning
products/applications?
o How is Machine learning related to
AI?
 What is data? Evaluation – What kind of jobs
o Structured may appear in the future?
o Unstructured
o Examples of unstructured data- text,
images
 Terminology and Related Concepts Intro to
AI
o Machine learning
o Supervised learning (examples)
o Unsupervised learning (examples)
o Deep learning
o Reinforcement learning
o Machine Learning Techniques and
Training
o Neural Networks
 What machine learning can and cannot do
 More examples of what machine learning
can and cannot do
 Jobs in AI
Unit 2: AI Present day AI and Applications
Applications Knowledge – Where can AI be
 Key Fields of Application in AI
and applied (like in the field of
Methodologies o Chatbots (Natural Language
Computer vision, Speech, Text,
Processing, speech)
etc.), What is deep learning?
(Introduction) o Alexa, Siri and others
o Computer vision
(Knowledge) Comprehension – How AI will
o Weather Predictions
impact our society
o Price forecast for commodities
o Self-driving cars
 Characteristics and types of AI Analysis – How should we get
o Data driven ready for the AI age (future)
o Autonomous systems
o Recommender systems

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 UNIT TOPICS LEARNING OUTCOMES
o Human like
 Cognitive Computing (Perception, Learning,
Reasoning) Cognitive computing
 Recommended deep-dive in NLP, CV, etc.*
 AI and Society coursera-ai-for-everyone
 The Future with AI, and AI in Action
(Introduction)
 Non-technical explanation of deep learning
coursera-ai-for-everyone
Unit 3: Maths  Introduction to matrices (Recap)
for AI  Introduction to set theory (Recap) Comprehension – Linear
o Introduction to data table joins Algebra, Statistics, Basics of
(Recap)
 Simple statistical concepts Graphs and Set theory
(Knowledge)  Visual representation of data, bar graph,
histogram, frequency bins, scatter plots, Application – Application of
etc. Math in AI
 With co-ordinates and graphs introduction
to dimensionality of data Synthesis – Representing data
 Simple linear equation in term of mathematical formula
o Least square method of regression
Unit 4: AI AI: Issues, Concerns and Ethical Knowledge – Ethics, Bias,
Values (Ethical Considerations Impacts of bias on society
decision Application – Spot issue in
 Issues and Concerns around AI
making) data, Make arguments, Apply
 AI and Ethical Concerns rules
(Values)  AI and Bias
 AI: Ethics, Bias, and Trust
 Employment and AI

Unit 5: ● Storytelling: communication across the

Introduction to ages Skill – Imagination, mapping
story telling ○ Learn why storytelling is so powerful the plot into key events
and cross-cultural, and what this increasing memory retention.
(Skills)
means for data storytelling
● The Need for Storytelling Application- Helping in
● Story telling with data creating blogs, videos, and
○ By the numbers: How to tell a great other content.
story with your data.
● Conflict and Resolution
○ Everyone wants to resolve conflict,
and a good data storyteller is there
to help!
● Storytelling for audience
○ Your data storytelling depends on
the background knowledge of your
audience.

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 UNIT TOPICS LEARNING OUTCOMES
● Insights from storytelling
○ Make the audience care about the
data
○ Keep the audience engaged
○ Create from the end; present from
the beginning
○ Start with an anecdote, end with the
data
○ Build suspense, not surprise

LEVEL 2:AI INQUIRED (AI Apply)

UNIT TOPICS LEARNING OUTCOMES

Unit 6: Critical and  Design thinking framework Skill – Understanding the
Creative thinking o Right questioning (5W and problem and being able to
1H) express the same
(Skills)
o Identifying the problem to Creativity – To be able to
solve develop/innovate from design
o Ideate a solution
Unit 7: Data Analysis  Types of structured data Knowledge – Types of
(Computational thinking) o Date and time structured data, statistical
o String principals – frequency tables,
(Skills)
o Categorical mean, median, mode, range,
 Representation of data etc.
 Exploring Data Exploring data Application – Representing
(Pattern recognition) data in terms of graphs,
o Cases, variables and levels statistical models
of measurement Synthesis – To be able to
o Data matrix and frequency represent a simple problem in
table terms of numbers
o Graphs and shapes of
distributions
o Mode, median and mean
o Range, interquartile range
and box plot*
o Variance and standard
deviation*
o Z-scores*
o Example
o Practice exercise
Unit 8: Regression ● Correlation and Regression Knowledge – Correlations,
○ Crosstabs and scatterplots Regression, and other related
(Knowledge)
○ Pearson's r terms
○ Regression - Finding the Applications – Being able to
line relate data with regression
○ Regression - Describing and correlation. Everyday

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 UNIT TOPICS LEARNING OUTCOMES
the line applications of these
○ Regression - How good is mathematical concepts.
the line?
○ Correlation is not causation
○ Example contingency table
○ Example Pearson's r and
regression
Readings

○ Correlation
○ Regression
○ Caveats and examples
○ Practice exercise
Correlation and
Regression
○ Explain the importance of
data from above examples
○ How prediction changes
with changing data?
Unit 9: ● What is a classification problem?
Classification&Clustering ● Examples Knowledge – What is
- Simple binary classification classification and its types,
(Knowledge)
what kind of problems may be
● Introduction to binary classification
placed under the category of
with logistic regression
a classification problem
● True positives, true negatives,
false positives and false negatives
Applications – Where to
○ Where we should care
apply classification principals
more with examples
○ Example- false negative of
a disease detection can Analysis – Impact of the
have different implication application of incorrect
than false positive, one will algorithms on society
be more physical harm and
other will be mental
● Practice exercise on simple
Binary Classification model
● What is a clustering problem? Knowledge – Clustering
● Why is it unsupervised? problems and its application,
● Examples why is it called clustering
● Practice exercise on simple
Clustering model
Application – Application of
clustering problem using
standard models

Unit 10: AI Values (Bias ● AI working for good Knowledge – What is ethics,
awareness) ● Principles for ethical AI Impact of ethics on society,

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 UNIT TOPICS LEARNING OUTCOMES
(Values) ● Types of bias (personal /cultural the impact of bias on AI
/societal) functioning
● How bias influences AI based
decisions Evaluation – Biases in data,
● How data driven decisions can be how to de-bias or neutralize
de-biased the biased data
● Hands on exercise to Detect the
Bias (Intro to AI)
Application – Finding bias in
acquired dataset

NOTE: UNITS 2, 5, 6, 7 & 10 should be assessed through Practicals only and should
not be assessed with the Theory Exam.

LIST OF EQUIPMENT/ MATERIALS:

The list given below is suggestive and an exhaustive list should be compiled by the teacher(s)
teaching the subject. Only basic tools, equipment and accessories should be procured by the
Institution so that the routine tasks can be performed by the students regularly for practice and
acquiring adequate practical experience.
● Desktop Computer/ Laptop / Tablet
● Web cam (in case of desktop)
● Scanner
● Projector & Screen
● Printer
● Software: Microsoft Office Applications, Anaconda Navigator, Web Browser (preferably
Google Chrome and/or Mozilla Firefox)
● Hub/switch
● Internet

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES:
● Data Scientist
● Data Architect
● ML Engineer
● Data Analyst
● Game Programmer
● Business Intelligence Developer
● Software Engineer – AI

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 ● AI Research Scientist

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