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Shark AI uses fossil shark teeth to get middle school kids interested in paleontology and computer vision

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Free Shark AI curriculum guides middle school students and teachers through building and evaluating computer vision models that can reliably classify fossil shark teeth.

The curriculum is designed to cultivate students’ interest in AI , data science, paleontology and the nature of science.

Teachers have the flexibility to modify the activities, sequence and time they want to spend on the curriculum, authors say.

It was written by: Christine Wusylko , University of Florida and Pavlo Antonenko , University of Florida Read more: Christine Wusylko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF . Pavlo Antonenko works for the University of Florida and receives funding from the NSF ..

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