Artificial Intelligence (Demo lesson)
B1 / B1+ / B2 level
Description
Materials
Main Aims
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To provide gist and specific information listening practice using a video about Artificial intelligence in the context of education
Subsidiary Aims
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To provide accuracy speaking practice in a debate in the context of artificial intelligence in education and Khamigo (Khan Academy)
Procedure (15-22 minutes)
The teacher will play a video generated by Ai and will use the material to set the context. The students will guess teh topic of the lesson from the lead-in activity.
The teacher displays on the smart board or writes on the WB (depending on the classroom modality) the word "Artificial Intelligence". Students will start to guess and say words related to the topic. These keywords are going to be used to create a word cloud.
- The students are going to watch a video on: How AI Could Save (Not Destroy) Education | Sal Khan | TED. The listening task is a Ted talk from the CEO of Khan Academy. (It is available as a Ted lesson created by Yousra Ferchichi) - Ask students whether they know what is KA and elicit meaning until they know that it is a non-profit educational organization. - SS will answer the questions according to the order of difficulty and depth. - Students don't have to watch the whole video (the max duration is 5 mins) - The teacher displays the answers and discusses different points of view. Reflection questions: Listening for gist: Will AI undermine human skills in education? How Sal Khan sees in AI an empowering tool to students and educators? Listening for specific information: How Sal explained the "Two Sigma Problem"? Discussion: According to what you have watched in the Ted Talk, how useful do you think "Khanmigo" can be to a student? Mention at least 3 advantages.
- Language focus: modals expressing possibility in the future: may, might, and could. - The teacher clarifies the use and form and provides examples.
The students will write their own script to include in their AI-generated video. The teacher provides prompts to help scaffold the activity and points out to the importance of not using open Ai (like ChatGPT) to generate the text.