AI is becoming more and more pervasive in our lives, yet little about it is taught in schools. This is why we decided to develop this new open online course (MOOC) ‘AI Basics for Schools’, that guides teachers to explore the potential and limitations of AI, and discover how AI may enable them to implement new ways of teaching and learning in the classroom. ‘AI Basics for Schools’ provides teachers with an opportunity to gain basic understanding about AI and how to integrate AI resources into their teaching with the aim to enhance student learning experience.
Through this three-module course, participants will explore the basic elements of AI, learn how to define AI, look at the ways AI is already used in our everyday lives and explore the opportunities and challenges of AI for teaching and learning. They will explore resources to support students’ learning and at the same time enable them to creatively use AI to help others and to solve problems. They will discover AI-related activities that can easily be implemented in different learning environments: fully online, hybrid/blended and a physically distanced classroom. They will finally examine ethical issues behind artificial intelligence and learn how to help their students unlock the potential of AI.
