AI and VR Workshops

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This website contains all of the resources for the 2019 CS4S Creating Artificial Intelligence and Creating Virtual Reality workshops.

If you would like to use any of the workshop materials in your classroom, or if you would like to modify them in any way, you are welcome to do so, provided you acknowledge the original source(s).

These workshops have been developed in a partnership with Google.

Creating Artificial Intelligence Workshop

The Creating Artificial Intelligence Workshop aims to be a practical and accessible introduction to Machine Learning (a topic within Artificial Intelligence). In the workshop, we will use the free Machine Learning for Kids website, which does not require any prior knowledge of Machine Learning or AI.

In this workshop, you will learn about:

• the types of problems that Machine Learning can solve
• the essential steps in the development of Machine Learning solutions
• how the data that we use to ‘teach’ a computer can impact how a computer ‘learns’

Some prior experience with coding is assumed but you can participate in the workshop if you only have had experience with blocks languages (like Scratch) because the resources we use (Machine Learning for Kids) use Scratch for the coding components.

Creating Virtual Reality Workshop

The VR workshop will focus on creating scenes in VR with A-Frame VR, which is a free tool for creating VR scenes using web technologies (HTML and JavaScript).

In this workshop, you will complete a variety of activities, that involve creating different projects. You can see the list of activities here.

The workshop will be best suited to teachers that have some prior experience with web development technologies (particularly HTML).

Future CS4S Events

We will hopefully run more professional development opportunities next year. If you are interested in keeping up-to-date with the opportunities that the CS4S team offers, please register for the UON CS4S mailing list by completing this form. We will send out information about all upcoming CS4S events through this mailing list.