INK vs ALGORITHM + DETECT.ai + TOUR
Details
Available: Term 1 - Term 4 (February 2025 - May 2025 SCI-FI Tour / August - December 2025 DISTRACTION Tour)
Levels: 7 - 12
Sessions: Tuesday to Friday 9:30am-2:15pm
Duration: 5 hours (three modules)
Capacity: 50 students (minimum 20 students)
Cost: $30 per student plus an Education Service Fee for each booking. For groups of 1-15 it’s $50, for 16-30 it’s $75 and for 31-60 it’s $100.
Ink vs Algorithm is a hands-on workshop where students explore the creative tension between human intuition and artificial intelligence. Using an AI-powered drawing tool, participants create images designed to stump the algorithm but remain decipherable to their peers. Through this playful activity, students uncover how AI interprets visuals, contrasts human perception, and reflects on the unique qualities of human creativity. Perfect for budding technologists and curious thinkers, this session challenges students to think critically about the capabilities and limitations of AI while fostering collaboration and imagination.*
*Description courtesy of AI.
DETECT.ai is an engaging, hands-on workshop designed to help students explore the ethical challenges of AI, particularly in the context of fake news and misinformation. Through interactive team-based scenario, students will examine how AI technologies can be used to create and spread false information, and the societal impact of this capability. In a collaborative environment, students will work in teams to simulate the creation and dissemination of fake news using AI tools, while learning to critically assess the authenticity of information.*
*Description courtesy of AI.
In the SCI-FI/DISTRACTION Tour, Learning Experience Facilitators will introduce students to the key concepts and ideas, facilitate group discussions and activities, and prompt students to think critically about the works. Students will have the opportunity to independently explore the exhibition with a scavenger hunt quiz containing thought-provoking questions and reflective activities before sharing their experience with the group.
Key Themes: creativity, innovation, human perception, artifical intelligence, critical thinking, misinformation and disinformation, artifical intelligence, ethical technology use, critical thinking
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Gallery Tour
Students will explore and participate in the transdisciplinary art-science-technology installations, experiments and works of the exhibition.
Participate in discussions and activities chosen by their teacher (teachers are welcome to use the accompanying exhibition resource).
Be able to ask questions and have conversations with Mediators – our in-house communicators with expert knowledge of the science and art behind the works.
Fire Practice
Identify how Indigenous people understand and utilise fire to manage the landscape.
Gain insight into Indigenous ways of Caring for Country.
Understand the key components of fire and what factors affect the properties of a fire.
Explore fire starting techniques by use of a wood drill to generate heat.
Explore current research related to Indigenous land management.
Informally engage with university students - who make up our facilitator team - and learn about diverse post-school pathways.
Sustainable Communities
Explore what makes something ‘sustainable’ using the three pillars, and use their new knowledge to categorise and rate examples from around the world.
Develop their understanding of the hidden or emobided costs and resources involved in manufacturing, packaging, shipping, and consuming products.
Explore strategies for transforming supply chains and consumer behaviours from a linear to a circular economy.
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Cross-curriculum priority: Learning about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and cultures
A summary of the Victorian Curriculum F-10 curriculum directly related to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture can be found here.
Critical and Creative thinking
Design and Technologies
Ethical Capability
Geography
Science
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