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Artificial intelligence
Explore how machines follow rules and learn from examples. Younger learners begin with instructions they can understand, while older students consider how the quality of examples affects a result.
Who it is for: A first look from age 9, more depth from 12
It involves
- A rule the student wrote
- A small set of examples
- A wrong label they can fix
- A decision the class will not hand over
Understand the rules
Younger students see that a robot follows a rule a person wrote. Older students see a machine use examples.
A bad example, named
When a label is wrong, students fix the set of examples rather than blame the machine.
A limit said out loud
The class names a decision it will not give to a program, such as a medical or disciplinary judgment.
The sectors already named in public
Farming, health, and logistics are the examples used when Muru Technologies described this work. The class stays at the size of a student project.
The claim we are willing to make
In the Kenya News Agency report on the Voi holiday classes, Muru Technologies described robotics and artificial intelligence as tools that help people work faster on real problems, including farming, health, and moving goods. The classes follow that line. Students are told that a robot does not replace the person who decided what the task was.
The emphasis is introductory AI literacy: recognising rules, understanding how examples influence results and asking thoughtful questions about a machine’s decisions. Learning stays grounded in age-appropriate classroom activities.
By the end of an AI unit
A rule they wrote
The student can show a condition the robot obeys, and can change it on purpose.
An example set
Older students sort a small pile of examples, see the robot or program mislabel one, and fix the set rather than blame the machine.
A limit they can say out loud
They can name one decision the class will not hand to a program, such as a medical or disciplinary judgment.
Questions
Will my child leave with an AI certificate or a trained model?+–
No. Those are adult courses. Students leave able to tell a rule from a guess, and able to say what a bad example does to a result.
Is this a unit or a whole term?+–
A short unit inside Coding Adventures and Robo Explorers, not a standalone diploma.