Understanding and grasping AI phenomena and systems: DDLitLab co-operation project ‘AI Education Week’

8 April 2024

Photo: SFZ Hamburg

Curious about what artificial intelligence (AI) is, where we encounter it in everyday life and how it works? In cooperation between the Digital and Data Literacy in Teaching Lab (DDLitLab) of the University of Hamburg and the Schülerforschungszentrum Hamburg, the ‘AI Education Week’ will take place from 19-30 May 2024.

To this end, we are bringing the mobile learning lab Artificial Intelligence in a Box (KIKi) - developed by the Nuremberg School Museum and the Chair of Computer Science Education at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) in collaboration with the Chair of Computer Science 3 at FAU (Computer Architecture) - to Hamburg and making AI phenomena and AI systems explainable and tangible in everyday life. ‘KIKi aims to decisively strengthen the knowledge and decision-making competence about the future-oriented technology ‘AI’ among pupils and students - with an interdisciplinary, highly attractive learning laboratory for pupils to take in hand, experiment and participate’ (source: www.kiki-labor.fau.de).

In 3.5 hours, around 13 AI phenomena are explored in separate experience stations for hands-on, playful experimentation and learning - free of charge! Students can book special workshop dates for this purpose, in which exploration and further thinking in projects is focussed on using ‘design thinking’ methods. Student teachers in particular can take part in teacher training courses and acquire additional didactic expertise in relation to AI in the classroom.

All information and registration for the dates can be found at www.ai-education-week.de