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DiscoverE Challenge: Critical Load
Take a load off .. and put the weight on a house of cards. Scholars learn about civil engineering and critical loads by building the sturdiest house possible out of a dozen playing cards. They conduct tests by placing pennies or other...
DiscoverE
Everyday Engineering: Colorful Chemistry
Watch red cabbage juice turn green. Pupils first watch a video that takes them through the process of creating red cabbage juice. They then add various solids and liquids to the juice and use the color change to determine whether the...
TED-Ed
The World Machine | Think Like A Coder, Ep 10
And thus the story ends. After a betrayal by her robot companion, the heroine of the story must find a way through a maze. Successful completion of the maze unlocks a crystal that will help save the world. By watching the video, pupils...
C-SPAN
On This Day: Creation of the World Wide Web
Most modern-day individuals have access to the Internet in some form. Academics learn about the creation of the World Wide Web from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee. The thought-provoking resource shares Berners-Lee's thoughts on how he...
TED-Ed
The Gauntlet | Think Like A Coder, Ep 8
No need to fear the Gauntlet of Forking Paths as long as you have your trusted robot companion. The hero of the video series must find the Node of Memory by navigating through a maze that has paths that each lead to two additional paths....
TED-Ed
The Factory | Think Like A Coder, Ep 9
Here's a surefire cure to your computer programming needs. The penultimate episode of the series follows the hero as she attempts to determine a cure for a harmful compound. She must make sense of a directed graph to identify the correct...
Crash Course
The Future of Artificial Intelligence: Crash Course AI #20
What does the future hold for AI? An interesting video considers the future of artificial intelligence. Scholars learn about assigning levels to artificial intelligence capabilities to determine what additional progress is necessary,...
Crash Course
Cats Vs Dogs? Let's Make an AI to Settle This: Crash Course AI #19
Would you let artificial intelligence make important decisions for you? The 19th installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence unit shows viewers how to use artificial intelligence to help in decision-making. They see how to...
Crash Course
Algorithmic Bias and Fairness: Crash Course AI #18
You wouldn't expect artificial intelligence to have bias. An illuminating video teaches scholars about five different types of algorithmic bias. They learn how bias is not necessarily harmful but can lead to discrimination, and they...
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Web Search: Crash Course AI #17
No need to search for how search engines work. By watching a video, learners see how search engines use web crawlers to produce a list of relevant websites and then use an inverted index to organize the list. They also see how knowledge...
Crash Course
Let’s Make a Movie Recommendation System: Crash Course AI #16
The 16th video in the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence playlist focuses on user-user collaborative filtering in recommender systems. Pupils learn how these artificial intelligence systems analyze available data to recommend a movie...
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How YouTube Knows What You Should Watch: Crash Course AI #15
It's a bit eerie that a computer can predict preferences. An engaging video describes how the artificial intelligence in recommender systems work. Scholars learn about content-based, social, and personalized recommendations using YouTube...
TED-Ed
Epic Engineering: Building the Brooklyn Bridge
Sometimes bridge building is a family business. An enlightening video describes the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge and the engineering principles behind suspension bridges. Viewers also learn about the people who led the project,...
TED-Ed
The Tower of Epiphany | Think Like A Coder, Ep 7
Let coding save the world. As part of her quest, the hero of the series must retrieve the Node of Creation from the Tower of Epiphany. This requires solving a computer programming puzzle to determine the energy needed to fill a basin...
TED-Ed
How One Women Put Man on the Moon
Margaret Hamilton did not walk on the moon with the Apollo 11 crew, but those who did would not have been able to without her computer software.
TED-Ed
The Chasm | Think Like A Coder, Ep 6
It'd be a shame if the hero fell into the chasm. The saga of the hero trying to save the world continues, this time requiring a bridge to cross a ravine. The blocks for the bridge must form a palindrome, and the hero must program a robot...
TED-Ed
The Artists | Think Like A Coder, Ep 5
Create a diversion! Continuing the quest to save the world, the hero of the series needs to find an artifact inside a tower. To distract the guards, she programs a robot to vandalize some artwork. Viewers learn how to apply loops and...
TED-Ed
The Train Heist | Think Like A Coder, Ep 4
Robots come in handy when planning a train heist. The hero and her robot continue their quest to find artifacts to save the world. They must locate and steal the Node of Power on a specific car of a train by writing computer code for the...
TED-Ed
The Furnace Bots | Think Like A Coder, Ep 3
It's time to defeat the army of furnace bots. Continuing from the previous episode, the hero of the story must locate and take over the zero bot that controls all of the other furnace bots. Viewers see how writing a program that involves...
Crash Course
Humans and AI Working Together: Crash Course AI #14
There's no need to be afraid of artificial intelligence. An educational video describes how humans and AI can work together to solve problems. It looks at Centaur chess, where humans and AI play as a team, and examines ways in which AI...
Crash Course
Let's Make an AI That Destroys Video Games: Crash Course AI #13
Now that we've made a video game, we might as well figure out how to beat it. Scholars create simple video games and then program an AI to defeat them in the 13th installment of the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series. They...
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AI Playing Games: Crash Course AI #12
Can AI beat humans at tic-tac-toe? The 12th episode in the Crash Course Artificial Intelligence series focuses on teaching computers how to play games. Scholars learn about historical attempts to teach checkers and chess, and see how the...
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Robotics: Crash Course AI #11
Robots can't take over the world just yet. Viewers of an informative video consider the connection between artificial intelligence and robotics. They learn how robots are useful for specific purposes and that localization, planning, and...
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Symbolic AI: Crash Course AI #10
If you think logically, AI is all about symbols. An instructional video explains the development of symbolic artificial intelligence. Viewers see how AI translates problems of interest into symbols and then apply propositional logic to...