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This might not look like your typical dojo, but these young ninjas are learning new techniques in the STEM world.
Local students at Code Ninjas learn the benefits and challenges of AI through coding and STEM activities.
Key Takeaways
- Early exposure to AI and coding helps children develop valuable STEM skills.
- Understanding ethical use of AI is crucial for young learners.
- AI education goes beyond popular tools like ChatGPT to include practical applications like object recognition.
- Building confidence through STEM activities encourages pursuit of related careers.
- Programs like Code Ninjas provide hands-on learning that connects technology with real-world use.
Summary
- Code Ninjas is an after-school tech program for kids ages 5 to 14 focused on coding through video game creation.
- The winter camp teaches students how to identify and responsibly use artificial intelligence.
- Students learn that AI can be used for creating games and visual modules but also has ethical considerations like image theft.
- Teachers, called sensei, guide kids through projects that demonstrate AI applications beyond common tools like ChatGPT.
- Kids explore AI capabilities such as object identification using interactive tools.
- The program aims to build confidence and STEM skills in young learners.
- Encouraging early coding education may lead to future STEM careers.
- Students express enthusiasm for STEM subjects, such as engineering and math.
- The program emphasizes understanding when and how to use AI responsibly in everyday life.
- The initiative is designed to expose children to various STEM fields to help them discover their interests.
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Code Ninjas is an after-school tech program geared for kids ages 5 to 14.
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And we teach kids coding by building video games. This winter camp is focused on how to spot artificial intelligence and how to use it.
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You can use AI to create games and to have visual modules. Sometimes steal like a picture, and that may make the creator or the person mad.
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Code Ninjas believes understanding AI is a valuable skill for young people. And now that it's becoming a lot more widespread, it's important that especially kids know when is it okay to use AI and when it is not, and
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like learn about how they can use it in everyday life. Sometimes it may not be a good thing, but you should always be careful with what you're doing with AI. Their teachers are called sensei and guide the kids through
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different projects. A lot of the times kids, or not even just kids, like a lot of people, when they hear AI, they just think of like ChatGPT and that's it.
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Instead, they're learning how AI can identify objects. When you hold this up, it like puts so then it knows where you're holding up.
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They say encouraging kids to learn coding when they're young can lead to future education and careers. Our goal is just to expose them to as much as we can and then see what they like, and then they hopefully will pursue
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something in the STEM area. What do you want to be? An engineer, 'cause I'm really smart at math. When I was in grade two, I could do grade three math.
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It's fun, and it kind of helps me with my confidence, and it helps me learn tools that will help her and other kids navigate the world of AI. Miriam Baldez Carleti, CTV News, Edmonton.
Topics:AI educationcoding for kidsSTEM learningCode Ninjasartificial intelligenceyouth tech programsAI ethicsgame developmentearly STEM educationEdmonton
