{"id":297,"date":"2026-08-07T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T12:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/?p=297"},"modified":"2026-09-09T20:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T20:09:08","slug":"term-1-15-bias-in-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/term-1-15-bias-in-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Yr4 Term 1.15 Bias in AI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"font-family: sans-serif; max-width: 800px; margin: 0 auto;\">\n    <h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2696\ufe0f Session 6: Bias in AI<\/h1>\n\n    <!-- Key Vocab Box -->\n    <div style=\"background-color: #fff1f0; padding: 20px; border-radius: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 1px solid #ffa39e;\">\n        <h3 style=\"margin-top: 0;\">\ud83d\udca1 Key Words Today<\/h3>\n        <ul style=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 1.6;\">\n            <li><strong>Bias:<\/strong> When information or a decision is unfair, and favors one person or group over another. <!--[cite: 1] --><\/li>\n            <li><strong>Fairness:<\/strong> Making sure that computers and AI treat everyone equally and make good, helpful decisions.<\/li>\n        <\/ul>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Starter Box -->\n    <div style=\"background-color: #f6ffed; padding: 20px; border-radius: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 1px solid #b7eb8f;\">\n        <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0;\">1. Finger Warm-Up \u2328\ufe0f<\/h2>\n        <p>Spend 5-10 minutes practicing your touch typing. <!--[cite: 1] --> Remember to keep your fingers on the correct keys to build your speed!<\/p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/type\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #52c41a; color: white; padding: 12px 24px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 10px;\">\u2328\ufe0f Open Typing Practice<\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Main Activity Box -->\n    <div style=\"background-color: #e6f7ff; padding: 20px; border-radius: 10px; margin-bottom: 20px; border: 1px solid #91d5ff;\">\n        <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0;\">2. Can a Computer be Unfair? \ud83e\udd14<\/h2>\n        <p>Today we are exploring what happens if an AI is trained with biased information. <!--[cite: 1] --> Just like our corrupted Chickbot from the last session, if we feed an AI bad or unfair data, it will give us bad or unfair answers! <!--[cite: 1] --><\/p>\n        \n        <h3 style=\"margin-top: 20px;\">3. The Biased Ocean Cleanup \ud83c\udf0a<\/h3>\n        <p>Let&#8217;s return to the Ocean AI to investigate how bias can show up in the real world. <!--[cite: 1] --> Your task is to experiment with the training data. What happens if you <strong>only<\/strong> teach the AI to clean up &#8220;round&#8221; pieces of trash? Try it and see if the AI becomes biased and leaves all the square or long pieces of plastic in the ocean!<\/p>\n        \n        <div style=\"margin-top: 15px;\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/studio.code.org\/s\/oceans\/lessons\/1\/levels\/8\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #1890ff; color: white; padding: 12px 24px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: bold; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\ud83c\udf0a Play Level 8: Ocean Bias<\/a>\n            \n            <a href=\"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/AI\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"display: inline-block; background-color: #722ed1; color: white; padding: 12px 24px; text-decoration: none; border-radius: 8px; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\ud83e\udde0 Explore AI Resources<\/a>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n    <!-- Plenary Box -->\n    <div style=\"background-color: #fafafa; padding: 20px; border-radius: 10px; border: 1px solid #d9d9d9;\">\n        <h2 style=\"margin-top: 0;\">4. Class Reflection \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f<\/h2>\n        <p>We will recap the lesson together. Get ready to share your screen with the class so we can talk through your progress and discuss your thoughts on how to fix bias in AI! <!--[cite: 1] --><\/p>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2696\ufe0f Session 6: Bias in AI \ud83d\udca1 Key Words Today Bias: When information or a decision is unfair, and favors one person or group over&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/term-1-15-bias-in-ai\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yr4 Term 1.15 Bias in AI<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year4","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390,"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297\/revisions\/390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ndovu.org.uk\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}