Careers in AI

This page is structured as follows:

The first slideshow is the slide deck teaching the important concepts for this entire topic.
The follow activities are supplementary activities that kids should complete to reinforce these important concepts.

These activities are listed in the order we suggest you follow.

1. Main Script and Slides

2. Career Daydream

3. Soundtrack to My Life

Links: Script & Guide
Suggested Length: 30 min
Tech Dependencies: Phones/MP3 players, speaker to play music (optional)
Group Reqs: None
Description: Students will creatively express themselves through music and art activities. Students will make tangible connections between their favorite songs and their own personality traits or life events. Students will share their soundtracks to the class with captions to explain these connections.

4. Inventory of Me

Links: Script & Worksheet
Suggested Length: 30 min
Tech Dependencies: Google Chrome
Group Reqs: None
Description: Students will discover and explore their career interests and possible career goals based on their work-related values and personality.

5. Planting the Seeds of STEM Jobs

Links: Script & Worksheet
Suggested Length: 30 min
Tech Dependencies: Google Chrome
Group Reqs: None
Description: Students will discover and explore their career interests and possible career goals based on their work-related values and personality.

6. AI’s Impact on My Future Jobs

Links: Script & Slides & Assignment
Suggested Length: 30 min
Tech Dependencies: Google Chrome
Key Concepts: AI in future jobs
Group Reqs: None
Description: Students first predict how AI technology (e.g., autonomous driving) will impact the job of truck drivers in the future. They then watch and discuss a YouTube video about a truck driver (Maureen) applying her knowledge and skills to help train self-driving trucks. Students discuss how Maureen’s job evolves and the challenges of developing autonomous driving models. Afterwards students explore how AI may impact the fields of their matched jobs in the future by browsing through a list of pre-selected videos. They collectively create categories of jobs that will be heavily/moderately/not influenced by AI.

7. People Working in AI-Related Fields

Link: Script & Videos
Suggested Length: 25 min per video
Tech Dependencies: Google Chrome
Key Concepts: Students will recognize that AI-related jobs can take many forms and be done by people from various paths of life. Students will develop a better understanding of how exactly AI can be used in different career fields. Students will identify role models they can emulate as they make decisions about future AI-related jobs they are interested in.
Group Reqs: None
Description: Students watch a series of videos of interviews with people working in AI related fields (law, IT, art, etc) and get a sense of what their work looks like. The videos also include how these interviewers enter the fields. After watching the videos students discuss what they find surprising and interesting to them and the inspirations they draw from the videos to plan for getting their AI related future jobs.

8. Personal Roadmap to My Dream Jobs

Links: Script & Guide
Suggested Length: 60 min
Tech Dependencies: Google Chrome
Key Concepts: Students will become aware of different educational preparation options for their matched jobs. Students will develop a deep understanding of how AI may be adopted in their interested job fields. Students will make plans on how to achieve their goals by identifying barriers and resources that they can leverage on.
Group Reqs: None
Description: Students create personal roadmaps to two of their matched STEM jobs. They choose top two matched STEM jobs that they are interested in, explore educational preparations for the jobs, investigate how these fields may be impacted by AI, and make personal roadmaps to the jobs.