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Learning AI

AI Teading Kids, AI Teading Teens and hands-on AI activities where children learn how AI works by pressing and trying, with tips for class and home.

  1. Move, and the screen follows: AI you play with a webcamAI Teading's webcam course gathers activities where the computer reads your body: a skeleton that follows you, a character that copies your face, and games you play by moving. · 3 min read
  2. Three lines of your own: the last chapter of AI Teading TeensAI Teading Teens ends by handing teenagers three tests and asking them to write three rules: what to hand over, what to do themselves, and what to always check. · 3 min read
  3. Sing with AI: Blob Opera, where you lead and the blobs harmonizeDrag one blob up and it sings higher; the others answer in harmony. Blob Opera, by David Li with Google Arts & Culture, turns machine learning into a choir you conduct with one finger. · 2 min read
  4. From mess to picture: how a picture-making AI actually drawsA picture-making AI doesn't draw lines. It starts from a mess and takes away what doesn't fit. AI Teading Teens lets you watch it happen with a slider. · 3 min read
  5. AutoDraw: let the machine guess what you scribbledDraw a wobbly sun and AutoDraw offers a neat one. It's a fun ten minutes, and a very good way to talk with a child about how a machine recognises shapes. · 3 min read
  6. AI Teading: a hands-on AI lab you try in the browserWave at a webcam and AI traces your hand; scribble, and it guesses. AI Teading gathers AI to try in the browser. Here's how to find the right one for class. · 4 min read
  7. AI Teading Teens: a hands-on book about how AI worksAn online book where kids aged 11–15 find out how AI sees, hears, learns and talks by turning dials in hands-on labs. What's inside, and where to start. · 4 min read
  8. AI Teading Kids: AI lessons kids learn by pressingKids aged 9–10 find out how AI makes pictures, stories and tunes by pressing, not typing. A tour of AI Teading Kids, with tips for parents and teachers. · 8 min read