🎯 Learning Objectives
Develop the Information Technology Learning Strands:
- develop an understanding of the current development and use of AI
- use your teamwork skills to successfully create a presentation as a group
💬 Key Vocabulary
- artificial intelligence (AI)
- intelligence
- ethics
- issues
- development
- teamwork
📖 A presentation on AI
- For the next two lessons, you will be working in groups to create a presentation on current developments in AI. You will present this in your groups to the class.
- Your audience is your peers.
- Before you begin, you will learn how to plan effective presentations.
- The slides below are from presentations on cyberbullying so focus on how the content is presented.
Why would this slide not be suitable for your audience? Or any audience?
- The slide includes lots of text and isn’t very interesting to look at. The audience might get bored and switch off quickly.
- This isn’t a good use of the slide. Short lists or bulleted items are much more appealing to read on a screen.
Same information but the detail is left to the speaker
- This slide uses the same information, but shows only the key parts.
- The speaker would add the detail during the presentation.
Slides must be accessible
Sans serif fonts — these fonts don’t have ‘kicks’ at the edges of the letters. Sans serif fonts are much easier to read, especially from a distance.
Contrasting background and font colours — viewers with visual impairments often find it easier to read large fonts that use contrasting colours for the background and the font.
Pastel shades for backgrounds — viewers with dyslexia often find it easier to read with a pastel background.
Use images and text
Images can be used to portray details that text can’t. Making the image the focus here has a bigger impact on the audience.
📝 Mini project: A collaborative presentation on current AI
Here is a list of some current AI technology you can use as inspiration, if you have found another type of AI make sure to ask your teacher if it is OK before you start making your presentation.
- Alexa/Google Home
- ASIMO
- Self-driving cars
- IBM Watson
- The Mars Rover
- Google Duplex
- Boston Dynamics’ Spot
- Agricultural Robots
- Financial Trading AI
- Autopilot
- Medical AIs
- SMMRY – summarises text on any webpage
- Emily Howell – an AI composer
- Longplayer – a platform designed to play 1000 years of unique music without repetition
- 1 the Road – an AI with a book of the same name, based on a travel across America in the style of Kerouac’s On the Road.
- DALL·E – an image generating AI based on text input
- ChatGPT – a text generating AI based on a prompt input
For this activity you need to work in a group 2-3 to produce a final presentation. The process is as follows:
- Choose a team leader who will create the original presentation file and share it with your group.
- Decide on a colour scheme/fonts to use, but manage your time effectively.
- Create an outline for your presentation — think about what will be displayed on each slide.
- Divide the slides between your team members (add names to the owners of the slides).
- Pick one current AI technology (see the list above for suggestions)
- Answer the default set of questions
- Pick three questions from question list as your project focus.
- Work out who is responsible for which questions in your team
- Each team member works on their own slides.
Focus your time in the first lesson on this topic on the content of each slide. There will be time in the second lesson to add images, etc.
Use the worksheet below to guide your work and see the list of questions you need to use.
🏅 Badge it
For this project you will be awarded a badge as a team, the below assessment rubric will be used to award you marks.
| Aspect of presentation | Emerging [1] | Meets expectations [2] | Exceeds expectations [3] | Score |
| Text | There are long paragraphs and blocks of text that are too small to read | There are some larger blocks of text on slides, but these are infrequent | Only text prompts are used Text is kept to a minimum | |
| Images | It is not clear if images are relevant or effective | Some images are effective Some images are relevant to the subject | All images used are effective All images are relevant to the subject | |
| Content | The content used isn’t relevant to the subject | Some of the content used is relevant to the subject | All content used is relevant to the subject | |
| Audience | The images, text, and content are not appropriate for the audience | Some of the images, text, and content are appropriate for the audience | All images, text, and content are appropriate for the audience | |
| Communication | Presentation skills need to be practised further | Most of the team members presented their slides to a high standard | All team members presented their slides to a high standard | |
| Time management | The presentation was over 7 minutes long or less than 3 | The presentation was 5 minutes long | The presentation was between 3 and 5 minutes long | |
🥈 Silver Badge
- A score of 6 or less.
🥇 Gold Badge
- A score between 7 and 12.
🥉 Platinum Badge
- A score of 13 or more.
In these lessons, you…
- Worked in a group to research and present information on a current use or development of AI.
Next lesson, you will…
- Look at different fictional AI and their characteristics.
- Consider whether a technological singularity will help or hinder the future of humanity.
- Take a quiz to test your knowledge on AI and it’s future.