I sent the MIT article below to the old mailing list. resending to the new list. 

Begin forwarded message:

From: C 2 Infinity - Marnie Landon <marniel@c2infinity.ca>
Subject: Re: [ai4k12-list] How to Teach Kids About AI
Date: September 23, 2019 at 7:51:05 PM EDT
To: "ai4k12-list@aaai.org" <ai4k12-list@aaai.org>
Cc: "amy_eguchi@bloomfield.edu" <amy_eguchi@bloomfield.edu>, Dave Touretzky <dst@cs.cmu.edu>, Jordan Blakeley Hoffman <blakeley@mit.edu>

“Kids are surrounded by AI. They should know how it works.” 

Sept 13, 2019 MIT Technology Review, Tech Policy / Kids and Tech, story about MIT grad student Blakeley Payne’s AI curriculum, as mentioned in the May 19 [AI4k12] thread.  

Interactive activities and Ethics 

from

MIT Media Lab
Personal Robots Group
Directed by Cynthia Breazeal. 


Open source MIT AI Ethics Education Curriculum: 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e9wx9oBg7CR0s5O7YnYHVmX7H7pnITfoDxNdrSGkp60/edit#heading=h.ictx1ljsx0z4

3 reasons to teach children about AI: 
1. Skills: stimulate problem-solving, critical-thinking, and computational skills. The article says there are studies to support this claim. 

Can anyone point me to these studies? 

2. Diversity, Inclusion, ethics, and impacts on society: Facilitate more conscious creation and encourage girls at a developmentally critical stage - middle school.

Ethical Matrices:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1AKGyEyNOxLI68y_sg3IIDxi_caWaDkTFpy-dtQLx28M/edit#slide=id.g5efbc38e4a_0_4 

Google’s A.I. Experiment Teachable Machine:
https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/

3. The dark side: Awareness of the risks, like addiction driven by behaviour tracking, and potential impact on the "agency, privacy, and long-term development" of children. 


Cheers,

Marnie Landon  
C∞🇨🇦


On May 24, 2019, at 7:03 PM, Jordan Blakeley Hoffman <blakeley@mit.edu> via AI4K12 List <ai4k12-list@aaai.org> wrote:


Unfortunately, there is an adaptive paywall, just a head’s up. 

From: "AMY EGUCHI <AMY_EGUCHI@bloomfield.edu> via AI4K12 List"
Reply-To: "amy_eguchi@bloomfield.edu"
Date: Sunday, May 19, 2019 at 2:11 PM
To: Dave Touretzky
Cc: "ai4k12-list@aaai.org"
Subject: Re: [ai4k12-list] WSJ: How to Teach Kids About AI

This is pretty good! Thank you for sharing!

Amy



On Sun, May 19, 2019 at 11:34 AM Dave Touretzky <dst@cs.cmu.edu> via AI4K12 List <ai4k12-list@aaai.org> wrote:
Here's a paywalled piece about a middle school AI curriculum being
developed by Blakely Payne at MIT.  Direct link:

  https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-teach-kids-about-ai-11557759541

A PDF version is attached.

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