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Colonial SD outlines 'Hour of AI' for elementary students, limits activities to grades 2–5
Summary
Instructional-technology staff previewed an Hour of AI initiative (repurposed Hour of Code) for grades 2–5 to teach computational thinking and human-in-the-loop concepts; the district will send parent letters, host a family tech night Dec. 11, and said K–1 activities will not include AI.
District instructional-technology staff presented a pilot of an 'Hour of AI' for elementary students and described how the activities mirror Hour of Code lessons but emphasize AI concepts and data literacy.
The specialist explained the pedagogical intent: to introduce how AI systems learn from human input, to practice computational thinking and to surface questions such as "how does…
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