“ALICE in LEGOLAND” - Friday Feedback Session Group: J Group Leader: Denise McBroom Group Members: Mary Beth CorbinNoor Khan Scott TavesSyed Warisi Saleha Banu This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under grant No. EEC Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.

Module Enhancements Ethics –Artificial Intelligence (AI) investigation/discussion When does a computer become a thinking being? When a computer makes its own choices, what value do those choices have?

Module Enhancements –How can you prepare for abuse of ALICE in the classroom? Kids creating sexual/violent/inappropriate animations –How can a computer program be harmful? Computer viruses, missile guidance systems

Module Enhancements –Reliability and bugs in software What are the consequences of releasing software that has bugs? –Air traffic control, traffic, medical software

Module Enhancements Engineering Design –Research and present to the class connections between ALICE and real world applications of programming Programming and video games and aeronautical engineering

Modification for Elementary School Engineering Design –Act out a play that demonstrates simple programming language to understand how a CPU works –Lesson on introducing x and y coordinates Scientific Inquiry –Using everyday materials (yarn, beads, etc.) to understand how a computer network and the Internet works –Taking apart an old computer What does each part do? What are the names for the parts?

Modification for Elementary School Ethics –Discussion of plagiarism –Kids avoid plagiarism in ALICE stories

Modification for High School Engineering Design –Research Artificial Intelligence (AI) History of AI Applications How is AI different from a simple programming language? Write report and present findings to class –Research Computing (AI) History of personal computers Applications –Why were computers developed? –Who were the important people (men and women) involved? –Write report and present findings to class

Modification for High School Engineering Design (continued) –Review x and y coordinates –Introduce z coordinate

Modification for High School Scientific Inquiry –How is the video game industry evolving? Research recent changes in the nature of games and audience Why are more adults and girls/women playing video games?

Modification for High School Ethics –Artificial Intelligence (AI) investigation/discussion When does a computer become a thinking being? When a computer makes its own choices, what value do those choices have? Use popular movies to spark discussion of stereotypes of “evil computers” (2001: A Space Odyssey, AI, Tron, etc.) Are these stereotypes accurate?