Another exciting opportunity for the Draatsi class this year has been  working alongside the Children’s Parliament finding out more about Children’s Rights.  Included in this, is the chance to find out more about Artificial Intelligence from the staff at The Alan Turing Institute.  We had a visit from Gregory and his fellow workers at the Children’s Parliament back in October and they took over our class for the day.

Still with a focus on our rights and what we as children need, we created different lands to live where you would feel safe, secure and valued.  We also thought what a land would look and feel like if this wasn’t the case.

After this visit, three Investigators were chosen to represent our class at the online meetings we have regularly with other schools across Scotland.  The Investigators take part in activities online and report back to the rest of the class and explain how the ‘Missions’ we have to complete need to be carried out.  They then report back online, saying how we got on and asking any questions.

Our first few tasks, or Missions, were all about what we understand about Artificial Intelligence just now.  The pupils were all given interview sheets to take home to question their family members.  Gregory was really pleased with our completed interviews so a big thank you for your support with this at home.  Mrs Henderson and I are very much learning along with the class on this!

In another ‘Mission’, we used a map of our local area to mark on our homes, significant places and where we thought AI (Artificial Intelligence) is being used.  This was a tricky task and after talking to the staff at the Alan Turing Institute, we learned that some examples we thought of were not actually AI e.g.  the scanners at the airport.

Here we are with our completed AI maps.

Our latest ‘Mission’ saw us learning more about what AI is and the class really enjoyed playing a game that helped them train their AI system to clean up the ocean.  We soon learned that AI is only as good as the person programming it!  If we entered in the wrong information or didn’t give enough information,  the results were incorrect.  If you would like try to this at home, follow the link below.  There are also some informative videos within the game if your understanding of AI needs a boost too!

https://studio.code.org/s/oceans/lessons/1/levels/2

Look out for more AI Missions in the near future.  In the meantime, it’s a Happy Christmas to P4/5/6 from the Children’s Parliament!

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