In light of the recent events surrounding Covid-19, learning for grades K-12 looks very different than it did a month ago. Parents and educators may be feeling overwhelmed about turning their homes into classrooms.
With that in mind, a team led by Media Lab Associate Professor Cynthia Breazeal has launched aieducation.mit.edu to share a variety of online activities for K-12 students to learn about artificial intelligence (AI), with a focus on how to design and use it responsibly.
Learning resources provided on this website can help to address the needs of the millions of children, parents, and educators worldwide who are staying at home due to school closures caused by Covid-19, and are looking for free educational activities that support project-based STEM learning in an exciting and innovative area.
Everything is free, but schools are supposed to license lesson plans from MIT before adopting them.
According to fastcompany.com, the site is, admittedly, a lot to take in, and you will have to dig a bit to find what you’re looking for. The design feels more enterprise-focused than parent- or student-focused, with as much real estate given to the team and sponsors behind the project as to curriculum links. “We’d love to see a more user-friendly design, which might let you start with a student’s grade, then shuttle you to the applicable lesson plans and experiments. But for now, there is still plenty of work awaiting your child”.
Reference: MIT Media Lab and FastCompany.com
