Classroom activities

Six activities to run in class, straight from the browser. No sign-up, no data stored, and they work offline: once the page is open you can cut the internet and it keeps running.

How to use them

Each activity takes 10 to 20 minutes and comes with a teacher sheet listing the goals, the questions that open the discussion and the expected answer. Project them and solve as a class, or hand them out on individual computers.

Written by a person or by a machine?

Six short texts. Decide which came from a person and which from a text generator, then discover that the clue is not in the spelling.

Suggested age: 10-14Length: 15 minutes

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Should I tell this to a chatbot?

Eight things a kid might type to an AI assistant. Sort what is fine from what should never be sent.

Suggested age: 9-13Length: 10 minutes

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The duties of an AI agent

Five situations where an AI agent has to decide. There are no obvious answers: you choose and then defend why.

Suggested age: 12-17Length: 20 minutes

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Train an AI (and watch it get things wrong)

A real, tiny AI running inside this page. You give it fruit examples and it learns to tell them apart. Give it skewed examples and it learns skewed.

Suggested age: 11-16Length: 15 minutes

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Think like an algorithm

Put the steps in order so a machine can cross the street without being hit. One step out of place and it crosses on a red light.

Suggested age: 8-12Length: 10 minutes

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Bias hunters

Six systems that already exist. In some the problem is the data they were trained on; in others, the question somebody decided to ask them.

Suggested age: 13-17Length: 20 minutes

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Auditing the algorithm

Three automated systems make decisions about people: who gets a scholarship, who passes a hiring filter, who enters a neighbourhood. The class audits them and looks for who gets left out.

Suggested age: 13-17Length: 30 minutes

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Spark — the purpose game

A full game for discovering interests and strengths. It opens in the browser, needs no installation and works offline.

Suggested age: 12-17Length: 40 minutes

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This game is in Spanish.

Chris Meniw Foundation Inc. · Free to use in classrooms. No permission or attribution needed.