Explore How to Teach A.I. - Creativity First

So what should you do for your first lesson in AI? I mean, teaching the kids AI. How do you even jump in? I'm sure they've all played around with ChatGPT and kind of maybe know what that is, but how do you instruct the learning? Well, the first thing I did was start with creativity. How do we want to make something creative with AI? Because that's what the tools are there for. So I ask them to first start on paper. I want to see your creative idea. Either write some words or draw something you think is really cool, and then tell me your idea about how we can change it or make it better. So we take that and then we go into ChatGPT or Midjourney if you have. We've played around a lot with Midjourney and let them just experiment and take their idea that they already had and give it to the AI to start the process of seeing just what it can do. We spent a whole day playing around with different versions of bananas with teeth. I don't know why bananas with teeth, but it was really fun and they all loved it. So I'm telling you, it can be really easy and simple, but I always encourage people to start on paper so that they understand that Coming up with creative ideas is not something we outsource entirely. We start with something, a spark of an idea that we have in our brains. If we can't think of anything, we have discussion with our peers and figure out what could we all try to do together to come up with some really fun things. And then they go off and do their work, and I help them individually, and then we come back together to let them share with the others what they learned. So that's an easy way to start teaching AI for kids. Cheers!