How to Train Your Robot: MA Stem Week with i2 Learning
How to Train Your Robot is a full 1-week curriculum for middle school students to explore artificial intelligence and ethics. It was piloted in Massachusetts public schools during their annual STEM week. In this course, students participate in a range of hot-topic discussions and hands-on, creative activities to learn about how artificial intelligence is impacting society today. Students will design robot companions to solve real-world problems and use machine learning to make them intelligent. At the end of the course, you will have designed your very own robot companion to share with the world.
Resources from 2019: Educator Guide | Student Workbook
Resources
Project WebsiteIf you are interested in receiving materials and teacher training so that you can do this at your school, please contact I2 Learning.
Team
Randi Williams
Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Blakeley Hoffman Payne
Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Daniella DiPaola
Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Safinah Ali
Personal Robots Group, MIT Media Lab
Phoebe Lin
GSD, Harvard
Tejal Reddy
UROP, MIT
Pablo Alejo
UROP, MIT
i2 Team
Publications
Williams, R. (2021). How To Train Your Robot: Project-Based AI Education For Middle School Classrooms. Proceedings Of The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium On Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21).
Reddy, T., Williams, R., & Breazeal, C. (2021). Text Classification For AI Education. Proceedings Of The 52nd ACM Technical Symposium On Computer Science Education (SIGCSE’21).
Williams, R., Kaputsos, S., & Breazeal, C (2021). Teacher Perspectives On How To Train Your Robot, A Middle School AI And Ethics Curriculum. Proceedings Of The 10th Symposium On Education Advances In Artificial Intelligence (EAAI ’21).