🌍 AI for Good — Team Pitch¶
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Team members:
Project name:
5. Failure risk¶
How could this be wrong, biased, or misused? ⚠️ If you can't think of one, you haven't thought hard enough — every useful system has limits.
🔎 Peer review — sticky note round¶
When you visit another team's poster, leave one sticky note. Pick the box that seems least finished:
- 📊 Data question — "Where would you actually get that?"
- 💥 Failure question — "What happens when it's wrong about someone?"
- 🧑 Human check question — "Who's responsible if it makes a mistake?"
Write a question, not a criticism. You're helping them think, not grading them.
Teacher notes¶
Print one poster per team (teams of 3–4, mixed ages). Tabloid/11×17 is ideal; Letter works fine. Give each team markers and a stack of sticky notes for the peer-review round.
The failure-risk box is the whole lesson. Any team that leaves it blank or writes "it won't fail" should be sent back to it. That box is the difference between this being a real design exercise and a wish list.
Idea starters for teams that stall — write these on the board:
- Help a teacher spot confusing quiz questions
- Help students plan study time
- Help a cafeteria reduce food waste
- Help a coach notice injury risk
- Help a town prepare for storms
Tiering the same poster¶
| Tier | What "done" looks like |
|---|---|
| 🟢 Starter | All six boxes filled with a sentence each |
| 🟡 Builder | Failure risk names a specific person who could be harmed |
| 🔴 Extender | Explains what data would be missing and who that would disadvantage — and proposes a fix |
Give the older students the hard box
In a mixed team, quietly assign the 9th–10th grader the failure risk and human check boxes. They're the most abstract, and it gives an older student a real job that isn't just "do the writing."