Build to Solve with Lego and AI

1) Introduction and Objective - 3 minutes i) Use a Framework to engage with an AI partner in order to solve a historical problem and build that solution. 2) Problem selection - 10 minutes i) Attendees will select one of the given historical problems from the context given 3) Working through the framework i) Establish vocabulary - 5 minutes a) As a group, attendees will brainstorm words that would be necessary to explain their ideas to their AI partners - Peer-to-peer interaction with Jot Thoughts structure ii) Prompting - 4 minutes (device) a) Attendees will prompt their AI partner for a starting point using the vocabulary acquired. iii) Curation - 5 minutes (device) a) Attendees will keep what is helpful from the AI responses, discarding unhelpful information. iv) Creation - 20 minutes (Hands on building) a) Attendees will create the Lego model for their design through many iterations. v) Feedback - 8 minutes a) Attendees will share their experience with their AI partner and their peers, answering questions and comments appropriately. peer-to-peer interaction Carousel Style 4) Questions – 5 minutes – Virtual Question board on device

After hearing Richard Culatta speak about the importance of teaching our students to work with AI, it became apparent I needed to further explore this area of education. These are my top three resources at the time of this writing. John Spencer has great resources for using AI: https://spencerauthor.com/pblandai/ The Office of Educational Technology: https://tech.ed.gov/ai/ Also, the Department of Education's publication: https://www2.ed.gov/documents/ai-report/ai-report.pdf

We will be using Nearpod, SchoolAI, and possibly other websites with AI generators. No accounts are needed.