ALEX Learning Activity

In this learning activity, students will watch small video clips similar to text-to-speech technology. This video shows artificial intelligence-generated sound clips that have been matched to each short video clip. Students will try to guess which audio clip is real and which one has been artificially generated. 

The students will be able to define artificial intelligence and identify examples of artificial intelligence in the community. 

This learning activity should be completed after students have been introduced to artificial intelligence. 

1. The teacher will kick off the activity by asking the students to turn and talk to their partners about some ways they use artificial intelligence every day. Allow time to briefly review student answers.
2. Explain to the students that you will be showing a video of various sound clips. One of the sound clips is artificially generated and the other is real. They will be playing a game called "Barometer" as they guess which sound is the real one and which sound is artificially generated. 
3. Show the video, Video to Sound - Artificial Intelligence Generates Sound Clips to Match Video. Stop the video after each sound clip (should stop after the dog, chainsaw, water flowing, rail transport, fireworks, baby crying, printer, helicopter, and drum) before the answer is revealed to allow time for students to move to the designated area in the classroom for real, artificially generated, or unsure. Before showing the answer, call on one or two students to defend their reasoning and allow students to move if their position has changed after hearing the student's reasoning. 
4. After playing the Barometer game, the teacher will call the students back together and ask them which sound was the hardest to guess, which sound was the easiest to guess, and why?
   
   How to play Barometer (Also Known as Take a Stand or Forced Decision)
   The students will be required to make a decision about which sound clip is "real", "artificially generated", or they are "unsure."  If students think the sound clip on the right is real, instruct them to move to the right, if they believe the sound clip on the left is real, instruct them to move to the left. If students are unsure, instruct them to stand near the middle. Have the students explain why they are standing where they are standing. If after hearing another student's position a student would like to move to another side, allow for this movement before showing the correct answer. 

The teacher will assess the students through observation during the "Barometer" game. Students should be able to defend their stance on whether a sound is real or artificial and why they have chosen that stance. 

• The teacher will need to watch the video, Video to Sound - Artificial Intelligence Generates Sound Clips to Match Video in advance to make sure it isn't blocked by school security. 
• The students need to have some background knowledge about artificial intelligence. 

This learning activity should be used with the following learning activities:

Artificial Intelligence/Science and Star Wars (before)

Artificial Intelligence in Your Everyday Life (during)