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Open Learning Curriculum

Bring AI Education to Your High School Students

About Open Learning Curriculum

AI4ALL Open Learning offers free curriculum and teacher resources so that educators of any subject can increase access to AI education in their communities. The AI4ALL Open Learning curriculum is interdisciplinary and approachable for people without CS or math backgrounds.

You can access AI4ALL Open Learning curriculum below.

  • Curriculum aligns to:

    • NGSS Engineering standards
    • ISTE standards
    • Common Core ELA/Literacy standards
    • Also maps to CSTA standards

Try a "Byte of AI"

  • AI & Drawing
    • Length: 1 hour
    • Skills/knowledge you'll gain: Understanding of what AI is, privacy and bias concerns
    • Description: A quick and fun way to become familiar with some core ideas of modern AI while playing with Google Quick, Draw
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  • AI & Facial Recognition
    • Length: 1 hour
    • Skills/knowledge you'll gain: Ethics
    • Description: A short deep dive into how facial recognition technology is used, some biases it has, and some ways companies, individuals, and the law are fighting against its use in surveillance
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  • AI & Deepfakes
    • Length: 1 hour
    • Skills/knowledge you'll gain: Critical thinking
    • Description: AI can create realistic-looking images and videos that were never actually filmed or taken as a photo. These images and videos are called deepfakes. This is a quick lesson requiring no background where students learn about deepfakes, as well as ways to verify information that they see
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  • AI & the Environment
    • Length: 1-2 hours
    • Skills/knowledge you'll gain: Conservation
    • Description: Learn how conservationists use AI image recognition to save time identifying how and where to protect endangered species. Build your own species-identifying AI system
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  • AI & Dance
    • Length: 1-4 hours
    • Skills/knowledge you'll gain: Movement, collaboration
    • Description: Students play with an AI that can react to their movement, and choreograph something that uses this tool. They can show off their choreography to the rest of the class
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  • AI & Ethics
    • Length: 10 hours
    • Skills/knowledge you'll gain: Human-centered design, ethics
    • Description: An interactive deep dive into the sort of ethical concerns that companies creating AI based systems should consider. Students explore these ideas through role-playing running their own companies and making ethical decisions for those companies
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Learn More About "How It Works"

  • How Neural Networks Work
    • Length: 2-4 hours
    • Pairs with: Everything
    • Description: An introductory hands-on deep dive into the technical details about how machines hold the information that they’ve learned. In the end, students will teach others what they have learned
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  • How GANs (Generative Adversarial Networks) Work
    • Length: 2-4 hours
    • Pairs with: AI & Deepfakes
    • Description: GANs are often used when machines create new images or video content. This lesson explores how each work
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  • How CNNs (Convolutional Neural Networks) Work
    • Length: 2-4 hours
    • Pairs with: AI & The Environment, AI & Dance, AI & Facial Recognition
    • Background: How Neural Networks Work
    • Description: CNNs are used in many machine learning models that recognize images. This lesson explains how that works in a hands-on exploration
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  • How RNNs (Recurrent Neural Networks) + Transformers Work
    • Length: 2-4 hours
    • Pairs with: AI & Ethics, AI & Drawing
    • Background: How Neural Networks Work
    • Description: RNNs and Transformers are often used in Machine Learning models where order matters, particularly with words. Explore how they work in this lesson
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What Our Teachers and Students Are Saying

I believe AI is one of the absolute most important areas for my students. This program gives me an option to introduce something crucial and educate myself as well. To have this tool to bring AI understanding to my community is incredible.

High School Teacher, Open Learning User

I liked that Open Learning introduced AI and technology in an English class. This kept me interested and motivated to complete the work.

High School Student, Open Learning User

The best part of the program was the videos that showed AI in different fields and with the developers discussing their creations...It was really inspirational to see so many women in these videos as well. It really makes the field seem open to women.

High School Student, Open Learning User