Artificial Intelligence Challenge Kit 2024
Join thousands of students to actively participate in shaping AI’s impact on their lives.
Prepare your students for navigating the ever-evolving impact of AI on their lives.
This Challenge Kit is for grades 6 – 12.
Registration Deadline: October 4, 2024.
Why Artifical Intelligence?
Students are coming of age in an era heavily influenced by artificial intelligence, with technologies such as ChatGPT, customized advertisements and photo-altering apps. Early indicators show that AI reflects concerning tendencies seen in society, including biases and the propagation of inaccurate information. If left unaddressed, the unbridled advancement of AI threatens human dignity and risks perpetuating existing oppressive systems. In a landscape where AI is the standard for young people today and likely in the foreseeable future, how can they actively participate in shaping its impact on their lives?
Students’ guiding challenge is: How might AI enrich the lives and possibilities for every student?
*Students will not be required to use AI as part of the Challenge Kit. The Kit includes student activities where AI can be used, both in and outside of the classroom to align with School Board rules. You choose – it’s all about your students and preference!
Why a Challenge Kit?
Young people deserve to have a say in the world around them; to engage with real-world problems that don’t have answers in the back of a textbook. Challenge Kits are the building blocks for many remarkable possibilities—there are no right answers or predicted outcomes. It’s the curiosity and creativity of students and staff like you that bring challenges to life in impactful ways.
What you’ll experience:
- Professional Learning in Real-World Problem Solving: (Mandatory for those new to I-Think) Join the I-Think Real-World Problem Solving Institute. The Institute is taught by I-Think Mentors, educators who started their journey just like you are.
- Orientation: Here you will get your Challenge Kit and have time to get familiar with the materials and the experience you’ll facilitate in the classroom.
- Facilitating the Challenge Kit: A Teacher Coach is here to support you throughout. You can reach out at any time.
What’s in the Challenge Kit?
- A Letter (that you can customize) from your school leader to the students issuing the challenge.
- Slides that you can customize to guide your students through the experience.
- Activity Plans with resources.
- Virtual Student Celebration.
You’re saying yes to?
- Attending the Real-World Problem Solving Institute, if you’re new to I-Think, in person
- Attending the Orientation, in person
- Filling out pre and post survey
Challenge Kit Cost: $1,000 per teacher
What is included?
When you join the 100 Classroom Challenge, you’ll receive:
- A 6-week, step-by-step Real-World Problem Solving Journey supported by classroom-ready materials you can download and use as is, or customize.
- Support to launch the challenge, including a customizable letter from your school leader, and a virtual launch event hosted by I-Think.
- Virtual speaker series or videos and activities to foster empathy and deepen students’ understanding of the challenge themes.
- A certificate of engagement for you and your students, who will become eligible for I-Think’s RJS Scholarship, after participating in the experience.
- Students will engage in the Real-World Problem Solving Journey throughout March – May. Professional learning will be provided before, mentorship and support will be provided throughout and you’ll be invited to celebration afterward.
Registration Deadline: October 4, 2024
