Living and Working with AI: Hands-On and Unplugged Activities

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Many people use AI, but few understand how it works. This workshop builds educators’ confidence to teach AI using interactive demos, unplugged activities, and coding projects from the open-access AI4GA curriculum. You’ll explore lessons co-designed and tested by researchers and middle school teachers to engage diverse learners. By the end, you’ll be able to answer: How do self-driving vehicles and robots work? How do computers see faces? How do they learn and make decisions? We’ll start by examining autonomous vehicles...