In partnership with Raspberry Pi Foundation and supported by Google.org we are delighted to offer Experience AI, an educational programme offering cutting-edge resources on artificial intelligence and machine learning for teachers and students.

Educators, please join us online for this free and exciting global learning opportunity!

Teachers of Year 5 to 10, learn how to support your students to understand, question and evaluate AI. This two-part workshop explores real-world applications, ethical considerations and classroom-ready activities that build AI literacy, helping you move beyond using AI tools to teaching about how AI works. All resources are aligned with Australian Curriculum: Digital Technologies and Mathematics, as well as Digital Literacy capability. Participants will receive a certificate of completion for 6 hours of professional learning, aligned to the Australian Curriculum and AITSL Standards.

Session 1 (3 hours): Mechanics and limitations

Focus: How does AI learn and why is it biased?

Participants will:

• engage in discussions and hands-on practical activities

• build a supervised learning model to classify supermarket items using Machine Learning for Kids tool

• interact with large-scale datasets like Google’s "Quick, Draw!"

• investigate how data bias and societal bias can lead to inaccurate or unfair outcomes

• explore tools to lead ethical discussions with your students in the classroom.

Please note this is Session 1 of 2 please also register for Session 2.

Contact the host of Understanding AI: from concepts to classroom practice - Part 1 - 26 October