Connecting the Classroom to Careers Through AI Explorations - EdSurge News

Artificial intelligence is an increasingly prevalent part of our everyday lives. From live-updating, turn-by-turn driving directions to responsive voice-controlled digital assistants--all in the palms of our hands--we are constantly interacting with computer programming where machines learn from experience and adjust to new data to perform human-like tasks. For children growing up right now, AI will undoubtedly be a part of their future lives and jobs. So, it's critical that students understand computational thinking and know how machine learning works. "It's important that kids leave our classrooms with real-world knowledge and industry-standard software and technical experience under their belt," says Teresa Blizman-Schmitt, a sixth through eighth grade computer science and business education teacher in Vernon, CT.