I am a fully qualified Computing teacher with over 13 years of classroom experience. I have written 15 online courses over the past 7 years for Code Avengers, an international online education platform. We offer interactive, gamified courses that teach programming, computational thinking, web design, networks & security and AI. I have also developed lots of lesson plans and activities which I am pleased to be able to share with you here.
I am a fully qualified Computing teacher with over 13 years of classroom experience. I have written 15 online courses over the past 7 years for Code Avengers, an international online education platform. We offer interactive, gamified courses that teach programming, computational thinking, web design, networks & security and AI. I have also developed lots of lesson plans and activities which I am pleased to be able to share with you here.
Students learn about the four lobes of the brain and how each contributes to human intelligence. They explore AI through an Input -Process-Output lens. Activities include watching a video, colouring in diagram, a 14 slide presentation and a research task.
The research focuses on what personal voice assistants are used for and the technologies that power them. These include natural language processing, speech recognition, text-to-speech and machine learning.
Lesson Objectives
Compare and contrast human and artificial intelligence.
Describe the functions of personal voice assistants.
This is lesson 2/5 in the “Silicon Synapses” Artificial Intelligence unit. Students also have the option to work on the CodeAvengers online platform during part of the lesson.
As well as each resource being available to download as a PDF, each lesson plan has links to Google documents for the activities so you can use them in your Google Classroom. Or alternatively download as Word documents.
The bundle of 6+ hours learning includes:
5 detailed lesson plans with starter and plenary activities.
59 teaching slides
Access to the Code Avengers “Silicon Synapses” online course for self-directed study. (Made for Hour of Code 2023)
4 high quality videos made by Code Avengers
A debate activity
A tailored kahoot!
Group research activities
Film analysis activity
Worksheets including word searches, crosswords and diagrams.
Please contact sarah@codeavengers.com if you have any questions about the resource.
