Interacting with AI Lesson Plan

Grades: 7-9

Duration: 1.5 - 2 hours

Author: MediaSmarts and TELUS

Learning goals

Key concepts/big ideas:

Students will understand that Interactions through digital media can have a real impact:

• Conversations with chatbots can have emotional effects and affect what we think and believe

Digital media experiences are shaped by the tools we use:

• The nature and limitations of large language models affect how we interact with chatbots
• We can affect how chatbots work through conscious prompt design

Digital media have unanticipated audiences:

• AI companies collect information when we use their tools and that data may be sold, shared or used to
  make decisions about us in the future

Essential questions:

• Can a chatbot be a friend?
• How can we use chatbots in a safe and ethical way?

Misconceptions to correct:

• Chatbots are intelligent in the way people are; conversations with chatbots are private and confidential.

Essential knowledge:

• Reading media: How large language models work
• Ethics and empathy: Concerns about interactions with large language models and steps to
  mitigate them
• Making and remixing: Steps for making an effective chatbot prompt

Performance tasks:

Students will...

• Use: Make a prompt that will make a chatbot interact safely and ethically in a given role
• Understand: Analyze how large language models work and the implications of that
• Engage: Evaluate the possible impacts of interacting with chatbots on human relationships and society

This lesson and all associated documents (handouts, overheads, backgrounders) are available in an easy-print, pdf kit version.

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