AUDIO / VIDEO RESOURCES
ELEMENTARY (K-5) and UP
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Fresh Prince Theme Song and Google Translate
Grade Level: 3-5, 6-8, 9-12
Watch this video and try out translation apps in your classroom; a great way to discuss the pitfalls of using technology in place of foreign language learning!
MIDDLE GRADES (6-8) and UP
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Road and Track Article: “Tesla’s ‘Full Self Driving’ Beta Is Just Laughably Bad and Potentially Dangerous”
Grade Level: 5-8, 9-12
In a 13-minute video posted to YouTube by user “AI Addict,” we see a Model 3 with FSD Beta 8.2 fumbling its way around Oakland. It appears hapless and utterly confused at all times, never passably imitating a human driver. Early in the video, the front-seat passenger remarks at the car’s correct decision to pass a bunch of double-parked cars rather than waiting behind them—but the moment of praise is cut short when the car parks itself right on the center line while trying to get into a left-turn lane.
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In the Black Mirror: What AI Means for Race, Art, and the Apocalypse
Grade Level: 6-8, 9-12
To find out how A.I. is changing the world, for better and worse, we talked to four experts: the conceptual Internet artist Sam Lavigne, tech writer Alexis Madrigal, engineer/analyst Deb Raji, and data ethics advocate Rachel Thomas. They all see us becoming increasingly reliant on A.I. systems in ways that impact our autonomy, creativity, society and the very experiences and identities that make us human.
HIGH SCHOOL (9-12)
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Robot Vacuums
Grade Level: 9-12
Robot vacuum cleaners are starting to make greater use of computer vision, like self-driving cars. This informative video compares laser-based vs. vision-based vacuums and explains how they work.
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TEDx Talk: Ethics in Autonomous Cars
Grade Level: 9-12
This is a TedX talk from a student studying CS and ethics and it fits well with a classroom that is using the MIT Moral Machine as a resource to talk about current issues in building new technologies.
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TED Talk: Why We Have an Emotional Connection to Robots
Grade Level: 9-12
Kate Darling at MIT shares her thoughts on our human relationship to robots and empathy concerns. **note** There is a brief, one second, non-explicit mention of sex robots. Teachers should preview before using.
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TEDx Talk: The Dangers of Algorithmic Justice
Grade Level: 9-12
Associate Dean of the School of Information at UC Berkeley, Hany Farid explores the problems with AI systems currently being used in the justice system across the US.
TEACHER / REFERENCE
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Artificial Intelligence Thinking in K-12
Grade Level: K-12
This presentation provided by David S. Touretzky of Carnegie Mellon University goes over why student should learn about Artificial Intelligence.
After giving a quick overview of AI4K12 and the Five Big Ideas, David presents some new material on what “AI thinking” in K-12 might look like, and how AI topics might be included in other parts of the K-12 curriculum besides STEM, such as language arts.