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“ALICE in LEGOLAND” - Friday Feedback Session

“ALICE in LEGOLAND” - Friday Feedback Session. Group: J Group Leader: Denise McBroom Group Members: Mary Beth Corbin Noor Khan Scott Taves Syed Warisi Saleha Banu.

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“ALICE in LEGOLAND” - Friday Feedback Session

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  1. “ALICE in LEGOLAND” - Friday Feedback Session Group: J Group Leader: Denise McBroom Group Members: Mary Beth Corbin Noor Khan Scott Taves Syed Warisi Saleha Banu This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. EEC-0502174. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

  2. Module Enhancements • Ethics • Artificial Intelligence (AI) investigation/discussion • When does a computer become a thinking being? • When a computer makes its own choices, what value do those choices have?

  3. Module Enhancements • How can you prepare for abuse of ALICE in the classroom? • Kids creating sexual/violent/inappropriate animations • How can a computer program be harmful? • Computer viruses, missile guidance systems

  4. Module Enhancements • Reliability and bugs in software • What are the consequences of releasing software that has bugs? • Air traffic control, traffic, medical software

  5. Module Enhancements Engineering Design • Research and present to the class connections between ALICE and real world applications of programming • Programming and video games and aeronautical engineering

  6. Modification for Elementary School • Engineering Design • Act out a play that demonstrates simple programming language to understand how a CPU works • Lesson on introducing x and y coordinates • Scientific Inquiry • Using everyday materials (yarn, beads, etc.) to understand how a computer network and the Internet works • Taking apart an old computer • What does each part do? • What are the names for the parts?

  7. Modification for Elementary School • Ethics • Discussion of plagiarism • Kids avoid plagiarism in ALICE stories

  8. Modification for High School • Engineering Design • Research Artificial Intelligence (AI) • History of AI • Applications • How is AI different from a simple programming language? • Write report and present findings to class • Research Computing (AI) • History of personal computers • Applications • Why were computers developed? • Who were the important people (men and women) involved? • Write report and present findings to class

  9. Modification for High School • Engineering Design (continued) • Review x and y coordinates • Introduce z coordinate

  10. Modification for High School • Scientific Inquiry • How is the video game industry evolving? • Research recent changes in the nature of games and audience • Why are more adults and girls/women playing video games?

  11. Modification for High School • Ethics • Artificial Intelligence (AI) investigation/discussion • When does a computer become a thinking being? • When a computer makes its own choices, what value do those choices have? • Use popular movies to spark discussion of stereotypes of “evil computers” (2001: A Space Odyssey, AI, Tron, etc.) • Are these stereotypes accurate?

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