CSEdWeek 2023: K-2
Essential Question: How does technology change the way we tell stories with pictures?
Structure of Learning Activity
Identify the impact that previous technology has had on the way we create pictures that tell stories. (10 minutes)
Play a Pictionary-style game to understand how humans can recognize what someone is drawing as they are drawing it. (15 minutes)
Explore how an AI system can be trained to identify how people draw pictures. (10 minutes)
Create a picture that tells a story using a drawing tool with AI. (15 minutes)
Discuss the impacts of AI drawing tools. (10 minutes)
Materials Needed
For Timeline Activity:
Visual storytelling images AND/OR Visual storytelling milestone worksheet
Scissors and Glue (depending on how the timeline activity is completed)
For Pictionary-style game:
Paper and pencils
Teacher device for accessing:
Student devices for accessing AutoDraw
California K-12 CS Standards
K-2.IC.18 Compare how people lived and worked before and after the adoption of new computing technologies.
AI4K12 Big Ideas in AI Guidelines
K-2.1-B-ii Give examples of features one would look for if one wanted to recognize a certain class of objects (e.g., cats) in an image.
K-2.3-A-ii Identify patterns in labeled data and determine the features that predict labels.
K-2.5-C-i Identify current uses of AI and how they have impacted society.