AI comes to classroom in Konnevesi

 

Today AIWARE project visited Konnevesi high school. The aim of this project is to help students, teachers and schools to adapt the imminent future of AI coming to our classrooms all over the world.

Within the next 4 years, this project is not only creating a teachers' driving licence of AI for classrooms but also lists the competences we need to know to teach AI and with AI in our classrooms. In our first meeting, we met half a year ago in Bottrop.

AIWARE project has been visiting Jyväskylä this time so this gave us also the great opportunity to start piloting some of our AI learning scenarios in real classrooms.

Current head teacher of Konnevesi High School, Mari Jämsen was kind enough to invite us to visit the always proactive 'School of 2030'.

We had a limited consortium from Finland, Germany and Lithuania represented.

Konnevesi is situated about 1h drive from Jyväskylä and have collaborated with JYU on various technology enhanced learning projects in the past like IMAILE and LEA.

Our pilot in the classroom today was in a Geography lesson. The topic was cities and countryside. Our aim was to use machine learning for them to use image recognition to teach their own machines to identify 'country/city'. One task was to show the laptop's webcam the image from the window and see if they recognised country in this case...  The kids are extremely fast to learn and got 90-96% correct! 

We also talked a little on AI Ethics - why would AI get it wrong? What kind of bias they might get based on the training data...?

This was a nice little pilot - we will be doing much more of these in the coming months. If you want us to show up to your classroom in Finland, Germany, Greece or Lithuania - send me a message!