You’re sitting in school with a pile of craft materials and no idea what to make. So, you turn to a friendly bot named Mundo. It uses arti cial intelligence (AI) to answer questions. You ask, What can I make using cotton swabs and pipe cleaners? It responds: Oh, the possibilities are endless! Here are a few ideas to get you started.” The bot suggests cotton swab flowers and pipe cleaner bookmarks. Hmm. You ask for more ideas. Next, it suggests a skeleton—you can loop a pipe cleaner for the head and use cotton swabs for ribs. Inspired, you get to work.
“If you don’t like Mundo’s answer, then you can ask it again, and it might give you an answer you like better,” says Annaleigh H. A seventh grader at Pine Tree Junior High in Longview, Texas, she was part of a group of students in a MakerSpace class that all asked Mundo for ideas. Their Web Communications teacher, Ms. Heather Brantley, was walking them through how to use AI in a safe
