AI image recognition - exploring limitations and bias
A hands-on activity to practise training and testing an artificial intelligence (AI) model, using cartoon faces, including a discussion about sources of potential algorithmic bias and how to respond to these sources.
Additional details
| Year band(s) | 5-6, 7-8 |
|---|---|
| Content type | Lesson ideas |
| Format | Web page |
| Core and overarching concepts | Abstraction, Specification (decomposing problems), Algorithms, Implementation (programming), Privacy and security, Impact and interactions |
| Australian Curriculum Digital Technologies code(s) |
AC9TDI6P01
Define problems with given or co developed design criteria and by creating user stories
AC9TDI6P02
Design algorithms involving multiple alternatives (branching) and iteration
AC9TDI6P05
Implement algorithms as visual programs involving control structures, variables and input
AC9TDI6P06
Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria and user stories and their broader community impact
AC9TDI8P01
Acquire, store and validate data from a range of sources using software, including spreadsheets and databases
AC9TDI8P04
Define and decompose real-world problems with design criteria and by creating user stories
AC9TDI8P05
Design algorithms involving nested control structures and represent them using flowcharts and pseudocode
AC9TDI8P09
Implement, modify and debug programs involving control structures and functions in a general-purpose programming language
AC9TDI8P10
Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria, user stories and possible future impact |
| Technologies & Programming Languages | Artificial Intelligence |
| Keywords | Artificial Intelligence, AI, artificial, intelligence, teachable machine, data representation, algorithms, problem solving, digital systems, Scratch, Lesson idea, Lesson plan |
| Organisation | ESA |
| Copyright | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated. |
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