Tasks on the topic «Artificial Intelligence» in School Informatics

• Published in: Современное образование no. 4; pp. 43 - 49
• Main Author: Lialin, Andrei Vasilevich
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.04.2022
• ISSN: 2409-8736; 2409-8736
• DOI: 10.25136/2409-8736.2022.4.39551

Artificial intelligence is a branch of computer science in which programs are written and devices are created that imitate the intellectual functions of a person. These programs and devices are used in a variety of areas, such as technology, science, art, games, medicine, commerce, finance, education. If the disciplines with the names «Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence», «Intelligent Information Systems», «Data Mining» and «Machine Learning» are already included in the standards of higher education, then artificial intelligence is not considered at school, neither at the theoretical level, nor at the practical level. Therefore, the subject of this research is the content of the topic «Artificial Intelligence» in the school course of computer science. As a result of a theoretical analysis of school and university educational standards and teaching aids, as well as observation of learning, a positive answer was received to the question of the possibility of studying the topic «Artificial Intelligence» in the school course of computer science. It turned out that from this complex topic, you can choose tasks that, after simplification and adaptation, will be interesting and accessible to schoolchildren. In the article, for example, four such tasks are given, namely, clustering, classification, recognition and control. Their solution allows not only to introduce students to a new and promising area of informatics, but also brings learning closer to the activities of a scientist, and therefore develops their intelligence.