Something for everyone: AI lab assignments that span learning styles and aptitudes

  • Authors:
  • Christopher League

  • Affiliations:
  • Long Island University Computer Science, Brooklyn, NY

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

One of the great challenges of teaching is managing a wide range of educational backgrounds, learning styles, aptitudes, and time/energy constraints in the same classroom. Aiming down the middle is a poor strategy; it is unacceptable to write off the lower half of a class, and we risk extinguishing the enthusiasm of the best and brightest by moving too slowly. We present a set of workbook-style lab assignments for an undergraduate course on artificial intelligence. By designing them carefully in accordance with Bloom's taxonomy, they can span learning styles and aptitudes. With them, we hope to establish a disciplinary commons -- a public repository of source code, notes, questions, and exercises.