As an Introduction to Machine Learning Concepts, students read the following texts to prompt critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity.
Critical Thinking:
Use these texts to examine
- Roots and foundations of knowledge, decision-making and prediction
- How to define, manipulate and automate logical operations
- Compare perspectives across time and human understanding
Communication
- Use texts as discussion prompts- engage through dialogic writing or conversations
- Create visual diagrams of how the concepts in each text relates to machine learning
Collaboration
- Come to consensus on a criteria for classification of a topic
- Write a team project plan to use science for practical needs
- Propose an optimal machine learner and team to build it
Creativity
- Envision future progress through physical or verbal modeling- building structures and/or storytelling
- Write an algorithm for a tool mentioned in the texts presented; change the algorithm to show how it would learn what it needed to know to reflect today’s functionality of a similar tool
- Describe an optimal machine learner
| Grade/Subject | Link to Resource |
|---|---|
| Introduction | All grades, All topics |
| Middle Grades Math | Probability |
| Middle Grades Science | Science and Practical Needs |
| Middle Grades Social Studies | Technological advancement perspective |
| Middle Grades ELA | Beyond Lies the Wub by Philip K. Dick |
| High School Math | The Earliest Arithmetics in English |
| High School Science | Classification |
| High School Social Studies | The Romance of Modern Invention |
| High School ELA | Transhumanism project |