Team Learning 2020 : Teaching Game

"What is machine learning?"

The Center for Art Convergence in Korea National University of Arts is planning an educational program “Team Learning” to deal with the convergence of art and technology. Team learning is held every semester and consists of lectures, technical workshops, and project activities supported by instructors from various fields. Participants practice co-creation (team project) by “collaborating” with each other, based on open source and sharing.

<Team Learning 2020: Teaching Game>, which is held in the first semester of 2020, will explore basic technologies that can be used for creation with emphasis on interactivity (block coding, beginners are welcomed), artificial intelligence (AI) and machine teaching, addressing the difference between human and machine recognition. Lectures and workshops – the first part of this team learning program – will deal with “data as a contemporary social and technological algorithm” and “how intelligent machines learn and how are they connected to our ideas?” Also, by practicing machine teaching through mBlock, we will explore various activities and conditions to create knowledge. In the team project activities of the second half, participants form a team and create screen-based interaction works with mentors (lecturers and workshop instructors) on the subject of human and machine recognition.

• Duration: 2020. 4. 22. (Wed) – 6. 24. (Wed), every Wednesday, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

• Venue: Art Collider Lab in Korea National University of Arts (Changjogwan 213)

• Instructors

- Lecture: unmakelab – Sooyeon Song and Binna Choi(media artist)

- Workshop: Joosun Hwang (media artist, maker)

- Assistants: Youngmin Jin

• Participants: 10 bachelor/master students at Korea National University of Arts

[Understanding social discourse and how to use technologies of contemporary media]

• Cultivating media literacy skills through research, discussion, and practice on interactive media production cases connected with contemporary production culture and media, such as open-source software, coding, and the maker movement

• Exploring the basics of technology that can be used for creation of art emphasizing interactivity through block coding practice 

[Understanding Artificial Intelligence and Machine Teaching]

• Understanding learning and recognition of intelligent machines

• Understanding AI and the difference between human and machine recognition through machine teaching practice 

[Understanding creative problem-solving methods]

• Learn how to explain the creative process and how art approaches society by defining problems, deriving solutions, and presenting outcomes through creative problem

[Understanding collaboration and co-creation through team projects]

• Collaborative education for creative and challenging project activities dealing with social issues

• Use of agile-based collaboration tools for communication, sharing, and efficiency in co-creation(trello, onenote, etc)

• Understanding sharing, websites to share ideas and projects, and cloud-based collaboration((mblock https://planet.mblock.cc, instructables http://www.instructables.com/)

1) [4. 22. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00] Orientation & Lecture (unmakelab)

- Orientation(18:00 - 19:00) : introduction of the training program and timeline, introduction of team project activities / hashtag drawing (task)

- Lecture(19:00 - 21:00): Probability and reality

2) [4. 29. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00] Team-building & Lecture (unmakelab)

- Team-building(18:00 - 19:00) : Forming consensus and grouping a project team based on hashtag drawings

- Lecture(19:00 21:00 ) : Artificial perspectives 

3) [5. 6. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00] Technical Workshop (Joosun Hwang)

- Introduction to computer programming starting with block coding

4) [5. 13. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00] Technical Workshop (Joosun Hwang)

- Machine teaching and the birth of knowledge

5) [5. 20. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00] Technical Workshop (Joosun Hwang)

- Making bad machines

6) [5. 27. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00] Team Project Activity 1 (mentor groups) 

- Introduction to Creative Problem Solving (CPS) and Brainstorming Processes

- Preparing project implementation plans (ideation) and presenting action plans

7) [6. 3. (Wed). 18;00 - 21:00] Team Project Activity 2 (mentor groups) 

- Organize and present work plans for each team

- Revising work plans reflecting feedback from mentors and refining production plan

8) [6. 10. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00] Team Project Activity 3 (mentor groups)

- Team project (technical realization and mentoring) 1

9) [6. 17. (Wed). 18:00 - 21:00] Team Project Activity 4 (mentor groups)

- Team project (technical realization and mentoring) 2

10) [6. 24. (Wed), 18:00 - 21:00]Team Project Activity 5 (mentor groups)

- Presenting team project outcomes and demonstration 

- Sharing collaborative work process and submitting the outcomes