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Can a computer recognise your sentiment?

This lesson plan enables students to explore how Natural Language Processing (NLP), a subset of Artificial Intelligence (AI), is used to assess and categorise a user’s online comments. (AI is the ability of machines to mimic human capabilities in a way that we would consider 'smart'.)

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Year band(s)	5-6
Content type	Lesson ideas
Format	Web page
Core and overarching concepts	Specification (decomposing problems), Abstraction, Algorithms, Implementation (programming)
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 AC9TDI6P07 Select and use appropriate digital tools effectively to create, locate and communicate content, applying common conventions AC9TDI6P06 Evaluate existing and student solutions against the design criteria and user stories and their broader community impact
Technologies & Programming Languages	Artificial Intelligence
Keywords	Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, AI, artificial, intelligence, teachable machine, data representation, algorithms, problem solving, digital systems, NLP, sentiment, sentiment analysis, unplugged, unplugged activity, scratch, My Computer Brain
Integrated, cross-curriculum, special needs	English, Languages
Organisation	ESA
Copyright	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0, unless otherwise indicated.