Blended learning: AI
AI In Everyday Life
Lesson Goals:
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Summarize how AI impacts various sectors like healthcare, education, finance, and entertainment.
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Compare and contrast different AI applications found in the Scavenger hunt.
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Evaluate the implications of AI and their ethical and societal impacts
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Create a digital poster on a future aspect of AI.
AI in Everyday Life
Artificial Intelligence, or AI, is an inevitable part of our modern daily life, transforming the ways we do business, interact, and move around. While journeying through this AI landscape, we must question the implications it brings up – in terms of ethics and privacy issues as well as those involving our evolving relationship between ourselves, humans, and intelligent machines. The comprehensive understanding of AI’s far-reaching effects allows an individual to effectively maneuver through and contribute significantly to the ongoing technological revolution that permeates every aspect of our daily lives.
All four videos were made using AI's text-to-speech and text-to-video capabilities.
How do you think the use of AI in creating these videos impacts the quality and authenticity of the content compared to traditional video-making methods?
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Share your answer here.
AI Scavenger Hunt
Work in groups of 4. Look for AI in your surroundings. Your tools? Just your smartphones or cameras. Your challenge? To capture photos, record audio, or shoot videos that showcase AI in action, from the convenience of smart home devices to the sophistication of autonomous vehicles. Seek out and find at least one example in each of the following categories.
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- Smart home devices
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​Voice-activated systems
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Social media algorithms
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Autonomous vehicles
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Your discoveries will come to life on Padlet where you'll post your photos, audio recordings, and videos.
Steps:
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Capture and collect: Use your camera or smartphone to take photos, record audio, or shoot videos that showcase AI in action. Be creative and look for AI in places you might not expect.
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Explain and elaborate: For each piece of evidence you collect, write a brief explanation. Why did you choose this example? What makes it an interesting representation of AI? How does it impact daily life or society? This reflection is key to deepening your understanding and making connections between theory and real-world applications.
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Share and showcase on Padlet: Upload your findings to Padlet. Alongside each photo, audio clip, or video, post your written explanation. Click here to open the Padlet.
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F2F: Reflection and class discussion
AI Fair
How do you see the future of AI How might AI evolve?
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Create a poster where you choose one specific aspect of AI's future. Think about hypothetical AI technologies, future applications, the impact it could have on society, or employment. You can use tools like Canva, Adobe Spark, or any editing software to design your digital poster.
Print out your digital poster and bring it to class.
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The journey doesn’t end with posting your findings. Take time to explore the Padlet boards. Read their explanations, view their evidence, and answer the reflection question in the forum.
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Let's discuss what was posted in the forum in-class.