April 16

​Click Here for ​"Student Guide to AI Literacy"

I. Announcements​

• Remember to look for the right dates under "CYPHER" to find your readings!
• When absent, please look at the agenda for that day of class to see what you missed
• Last Presentations are TODAY-- Gonzalo & Caden​
• Next week, we start our website groups!  The groups of FIVE will be announced on Monday.
  

Gonzalo's Presentation

Caden's Presentation

Final Theme: "TechnoRacism

 Our next and last project will be a collaborative website on technoracism. Work on your weekly submissions based on this.  Consider, for instance, using an infographic for upcoming assignments that you can later add to your webpages.  Imagine yourself writing to educate a public audience. See below for examples.

II. Technoracism, Creative Expression & Black Language

Part One: The Grammars of Black Language

Click Here for Your Black Grammar Quiz (or complete below).
​Perfect Scores Get Extra Credit :)

Part Two: Reading Assignment on TechnoRacism & Language
Option 1: AI Is Biased against Speakers of African American English, Study Finds

Option 2: AI Generates Covertly Racist Decisions about People Based on Their Dialect (go to "Discussion" in time-constraint)

​Option 3: AI Generates Harsher Punishments for People who Use Black Dialect

​Option 4: AI Makes Racist Decisions Based on Dialect

Option 5: AI Models Found to Show Language Bias by Recommending Black Defendents Be 'Sentenced to Death'

Option 6: As AI Tools Get Smarter, They’re Growing More Covertly Racist, Experts Find

Option 7:Covert Racism in AI: How Language Models Are Reinforcing Outdated Stereotypes​

Option 8: Depression in Black People Goes Unnoticed by AI Models Analyzing Language in Social Media Posts

Option 9: How Automated Tools Discriminate Against Black Language

Option 10: People of Color’s Struggle with AI

Click Here for Our Google Doc

 Read any ONE webessay above.  Include 2-3 sentences of the important take-aways for your peers on the google doc. Include at least ONE sentence about what you THINK of these issues. Write your name after your comment. 

Making an Infographic

REQUIREMENTS

1. Make a clear title
2. Choose a color package/ design
3. Choose a single representative image and/or use a series of charts and graphs that are laid out in a clear way
4. Highlight at least 3-5 DIRECT central ideas AND at least one quotation (these are not full sentences)
5. Go beyond 3-5 central ideas OR create longer prose somewhere on the infograph (see the beige part in the sample)
6. ONLY one page!!
7. Include your name(s)
8. Include the citation (see below)
9. Look/be as original as possible! No robot-speak!

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Popular, free tools for infographic design:
Canva, Venngage, PosterMyWall, Google Slides 

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