I recently had an interesting adventure: Give a class on GenAI at elementary school! I felt that my experience report could be interesting for the hackernews crowd, so I wanted to share it here.
Besides the obvious pedagogical challenges, I also faced technical challenges as I wanted to:
- only use models with open weights
- include all students and teachers into the generated images and videos within 1 hour
I evaluated several different models for that, but settled for Z-Image and WanAnimate in the end.
andsoitis•1h ago
> Give a class on GenAI at elementary school!
May I ask Why? What’s the rationale? I have a hard time understanding how this helps foundational education at such a young age…
chris_sandor•1h ago
Besides the obvious pedagogical challenges, I also faced technical challenges as I wanted to:
- only use models with open weights
- include all students and teachers into the generated images and videos within 1 hour
I evaluated several different models for that, but settled for Z-Image and WanAnimate in the end.
andsoitis•1h ago
May I ask Why? What’s the rationale? I have a hard time understanding how this helps foundational education at such a young age…