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LEARNING GOAL
Learning to differentiate a human being from an "intelligent" machine
PEDAGOGICAL INTENTION
Identify social / relational differences
Target SKILLS
MATERIALS
DETAILED PROCEDURE
PROGRESS INDICATORS
Printed robot response script
A situation chosen by the teacher: e.g., 2 friends meet after gym class.
Step 1
2 students act out the real conversation.
Step 2
Then one of them starts a conversation with an AI: the responses appear on screen for everyone to see.
Step 3
Comparison of differences.
Step 4
Identify human adaptation.
Step 5
Whole-class summary: students name at least three elements present in the human conversation and absent from the AI response (tone, hesitation, shared memory, spontaneous emotion, gaze). Conclusion: a real conversation involves two living people, not an automated sequence.
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Step 10
The student names three differences between a real conversation and an automatic response.
Co-Intelligence Human-Machine
Critical Thinking
Research Foundations
Turkle, S. (2011); Reeves, B., & Nass, C. (1996)
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