De nationale AI cursus JUNIOR
Topic/ Area
Artificial Intelligence
Date released
September 4, 2019
Type of Best Practice
Curriculum
Partners/ network
Jenya Krul and Ronilla Snellen from
Stichting FutureNL
The Netherlands
Made possible by:
De nationale AI cursus, initiative of
AI for GOOD,
RMMBR to learn,
Innovative Center for Artificial Intelligence (ICAI).
The Netherlands
Description of the methods/ approach
The curriculum is based on the national AI course available online. The curriculum contains five lessons that are freely accessible on the internet. Each lesson takes about an hour and comes with a teacher guide and a worksheet for the students.
Each lesson discusses a question regarding AI, like: what is AI, how do machines learn, what are the applications, et cetera.
The curriculum is designed to fit the existing learning guidelines regarding digital skills and 21st century skills.
Purpose/Aim
The national AI course was set up to teach as many people possible more about AI. The aim of this curriculum is to help educators implement these lessons in their teaching in an easy way. After following the curriculum young learners have developed a basic understanding of what AI is about, how it works and what kind of applications are possible and already exist.
Reference
Curriculum: https://www.lessonup.com/app/channel/futurenl/series/a6bbcaeedb7612c0742a2a14
National online course: https://junior.ai-cursus.nl/home
Available languages
Dutch
Additional notes
CC: Everyone can download and use the curriculum when it is not for commercial purposes. CC: BY-NC-ND 4.0.
This best practice focus on the curriculum that teachers can use. However, there is also an online course ‘de nationale AI cursus junior’ that young learners can do on their own. Moreover, there is also an ‘adult’ version, called: ‘De Nationale AI cursus’, which is available in Dutch, English and Flemish.
