Sunday, January 27, 2019
1:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Daniel K. Inouye Elementary School
Waianae and Ayers Avenue
Wahiawa, Hawaii 96786
This free three-hour workshop, sponsored by ReadyAI.org, will introduce K-12 teachers to a variety of tools for teaching students about Artificial Intelligence. Some of these are free browser-based demos such as Google’s QuickDraw and TensorFlow. Some involve children’s programming environments for AI, such as the Calypso software for the Cozmo robot (https://calypso.software) and the Cognimates AI extensions for Scratch (http://cognimates.me). And some are “unplugged” activities that can be done with a whiteboard or a smartphone.
The workshop is an outreach activity offered in connection with the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) conference taking place in Honolulu on January 27 – February 1, 2019. Information about the joint AAAI/CSTA working group on AI for K-12 is available at http://ai4k12.org.
Workshop presenters:
Dr. David Touretzky, Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, chair of the AI4K12 Working Group, and creator of the Calypso for Cozmo software platform.
Dr. Christina Gardner-McCune, Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer & Information Science & Engineering at the University of Florida, and co-chair of the AI4K12 Working Group.
Jason Huang, Program Director of ReadyAI.org, which offers “AI-IN-A-BOX” curriculum solutions for K-12 and runs the World Artificial Intelligence Competition for Youth (WAICY).
Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring their own laptops. No prior experience with artificial intelligence is required.
Workshop web site: https://www.readyai.org/tools-for-teaching-artificial-intelligence-in-k-12/