AI professional learning: Primary teacher
Select from the five free sessions on offer. The introductory session provides key concepts and AI tools to engage your students.
Choose to do some deep-dive options to learn more about the way in which AI can be used as a context for learning. These modules will be focused on a key aspect of AI with relevant curriculum connections.
Presenters:
Dr Karsten Schulz, Digital Technologies Institute and Martin Richards, Content Manager Digital Technologies Hub
Dr Karsten Schulz has extensive experience in programming and Digital Technologies including building his own AI to enable students to explore how an Artificial Neural Network operates. Karsten has been instrumental in the development of the AI supporting resources on the DT Hub.
Martin Richards is the Content Manager of the DT Hub and leads the development of the AI DT Hub supporting resources. As well as writing many of the primary AI lesson plans, Martin developed the visual programming samples in Scratch 3.0 that feature in the DT Hub AI lessons.
This is the recorded version of a 1-hour, online workshop that lays the groundwork for exploring Artificial Intelligence with your students. We demonstrate key concepts and lesson ideas. After this session, you’ll come away with strategies to explore AI concepts with your students using a selection of amazing AI tools. In addition, you’ll be clear on where AI fits in the Digital Technologies curriculum and ways to assess your students.
Who is this for? Primary Teachers (F-6) interested in building their knowledge of AI and how to implement this in their classroom.
The event was held on Wed 4th August 2021.
Digital Technologies concepts in this workshop:
- Digital systems
- Data representation and interpretation
- Specification, algorithms and implementation
- Impact and interactions
This session also incorporates 'Ways of thinking':
- Computational Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Design Thinking
Session overview
A detailed session overview of the Introduction session, complete with links to tools, handouts and lesson plans.
Idea explainers
Watch this short clip for help with concepts:
This is the recorded version of a 1-hour, online workshop. It is a deep dive into algorithms and programming with Artificial Intelligence. We show you how to use AI as a context for your students to learn programming skills and processes. After this recording, you’ll come away with strategies and resources to explore programming AI concepts with your students using a selection of amazing AI tools. In addition, you’ll be clear on where AI fits in the Digital Technologies curriculum and ways to assess your students.
Who is this for? Primary Teachers (3-6) interested in building their knowledge of AI and how to implement programming in their classroom.
The event was held on Wed 11th August 2021.
Digital Technologies concepts in this workshop:
- Data representation and interpretation
- Specification, algorithms and implementation
- Impact
General capabilities covered in this workshop:
- ICT capability
- Critical and creative thinking
This session also incorporates 'Ways of thinking':
- Computational Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Design Thinking
Session overview
A detailed session overview of the Deep Dive 1 session, complete with links to tools, handouts and lesson plans.
Idea explainers
Watch this short clip for help with concepts:
This is the recorded version of a 1-hour, online workshop. It is a deep dive into data and how it is represented in Artificial Intelligence systems. We show you how to use AI as a context for your students to learn about data representation. After this session, you’ll come away with strategies and resources and how these can be used to explore data. You’ll be clear on where AI fits in the Digital Technologies curriculum and ways to assess your students.
Who is this for? Primary Teachers (F-6) interested in building their knowledge of AI and how to explore machine learning in a practical way that does not require any coding.
The event was held on Wed 18th August 2021.
Digital Technologies concepts in this workshop:
- Digital systems
- Data representation and interpretation
General capabilities covered in this workshop:
- ICT capability
- Critical and creative thinking
This session also incorporates 'Ways of thinking':
- Computational Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Design Thinking
Session overview
A detailed session overview of the Deep Dive 2 session, complete with links to tools, handouts and lesson plans.
This is the recorded version of a 1-hour, online workshop. It is a deep dive into machine learning and how Artificial Intelligence is trained to recognise objects. We show you how to create your own AI model in a fun, easy and practical way. After this session, you’ll come away with tips and tricks to use strategies and resources that enable students to create and test their own AI models. You’ll be clear on where AI fits in the Digital Technologies curriculum and ways to assess your students.
Who is this for? Primary Teachers (F-6) interested in building their knowledge of AI and how to explore machine learning in a practical way that does not require any coding.
The event was held on Wed 25th August 2021.
Digital Technologies concepts in this workshop:
- Data representation and interpretation
- Specification, algorithms and implementation
- Impact
General capabilities covered in this workshop:
- ICT capability
- Critical and creative thinking
This session also incorporates 'Ways of thinking':
- Computational Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Design Thinking
Session overview
A detailed session overview of the Deep Dive 3 session, complete with links to tools, handouts and lesson plans.
This is the recorded version of a 1-hour, free online workshop is a deep dive into Artificial Intelligence and ethics. After this session, you’ll come away with strategies to develop your students’ ethical understanding using an approach that incorporates exploring ethical issues, selecting and justifying an ethical position and reflecting on core ethical issues. You’ll be clear on where AI fits in the Digital Technologies curriculum and how the general capability: ethical understanding can be integrated as a critical focus. You will have a range of ways to assess your students.
Who is this for? Primary Teachers (F-6) interested in building their knowledge of AI and how to explore machine learning in a practical way that does not require any coding.
The event was held on Wed 8th September 2021.
Digital Technologies concepts in this workshop:
- Digital systems
- Impact
- Interactions
General capabilities covered in this workshop:
- Ethical Understanding
- ICT capability
- Critical and creative thinking
This session also incorporates 'Ways of thinking':
- Computational Thinking
- Systems Thinking
- Design Thinking
Session overview
A detailed session overview of the Deep Dive 4 session, complete with links to tools, handouts and lesson plans.
