How does a computer recognise pictures? How does it choose the next word? And why does it sometimes get things wrong? Explore together with Bip, in films for preschool and early primary children and activities to prepare at home or in your setting.
Hi! I'm Bip. Today I'm wearing the bee costume, like in the film for the Little Bees.Cześć! Hello! ¡Hola! Three greetings, because every film comes in three languages.Hi! I wear the kangaroo costume in the film for the Little Kangaroos, the longest one.Grr! Little Tigers are 1 to 3 years old. A nursery group is a format without a screen, so there is no film.
Bip's voice is generated by a computer.
Can a computer see?
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How does a computer learn?
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Can we trust a computer?
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Would you like Bip in your group’s costume and with a voice of your choice? I can also shorten the film and select topics to suit the children’s age and the time available for your session.
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Teaching aids packBip's Club on YouTube (opens in a new tab)
The narrator's voice is a computer-made copy of my own voice, and Bip's voice was generated by a computer. The drawings were made with the help of AI tools. How the films were made
The films
Choose a topic, length and suggested age. Little Bees, Little Bears and Little Kangaroos name the versions with different Bip costumes. You can watch a longer film in sections, with breaks to talk.
Where the voices and the drawings in the films come from, I explain below in How the films were made.
Stills from each film are below, in Key moments.
Want your own version for your group? Ask for a quote.
These are stills from the films. The time beside each one is where its chapter starts.
Can a computer see?ages 3–5 · PszczółkiLittle BeesAbejitas
How does a computer learn?ages 5–6 · NiedźwiadkiLittle BearsOsitos
Can we trust a computer?ages 6–9 · KangurkiLittle KangaroosCanguritos
Downloads
Choose materials by age and the film you watched. The animal names help match cards and stickers to a film, whatever your group is called. Children aged 1 to 3 have boards, puzzles and sounds for screen-free play.
The cards and stickers are PDFs in A4 size. Print at 100 percent scale, without fitting to the page. Before printing for a whole group, print one test page and hold a sticker against a space on the card.
Each card has two pages. The first holds two copies of the card side by side, to be cut apart, and the second is the teacher's key, with a sentence to read after each match.
For a group of 12 children:
Each child gets one set of 6 stickers. Every set fits the spaces on the card of this group.
The clue is a grey picture, and the child sticks the matching sticker next to it.
Download PDF: Riddle card for Little Bees
Colourful pictures for this group’s riddle card. Print on self-adhesive A4 paper and cut along the grey lines.
Download PDF: Matching stickers for the Little Bees riddle cardOne file for every language, because there are no words on the stickers.
Each child gets one set of 7 stickers. Every set fits the spaces on the card of this group.
The clue is a blurred picture, the way a computer sees it when it makes out few details.
Download PDF: Riddle card for Little Bears
Colourful pictures for this group’s riddle card. Print on self-adhesive A4 paper and cut along the grey lines.
Download PDF: Matching stickers for the Little Bears riddle cardOne file for every language, because there are no words on the stickers.
Each child gets one set of 8 stickers. Every set fits the spaces on the card of this group.
The clue is a small piece of a picture, and the child guesses the whole picture from it.
Download PDF: Riddle card for Little Kangaroos
Colourful pictures for this group’s riddle card. Print on self-adhesive A4 paper and cut along the grey lines.
Download PDF: Matching stickers for the Little Kangaroos riddle cardOne file for every language, because there are no words on the stickers.
There is no film or riddle card for Little Tigers (ages 1 to 3). For play without a screen, there are three picture boards in A3 and A4 and two sets of Bip to cut out. The pack also includes an activity idea using Bip’s parts and four tiger sounds. Show one board at a time.
The boards come in A3 and A4, horizontal, with the same drawings. Print the A3 file at 100 percent scale, for example at a print shop. On an A4 printer a reduced A3 board fits whole, because both sheets have the same proportions, but the A4 file is the one for a home printer. Bip to cut out comes in A4 only, vertical. In a corner of every page there is a small Bip badge and the line "Klub Bipa · bipsclub.com".
The three boards show a tiger, a little plane and Bip in a tiger costume. At the bottom of each board are large captions: "Tygrysek" (little tiger), "Samolocik" (little plane) and "Bip". The drawings are the same in both sizes.
The captions on the boards are in Polish. For another language, use the version without captions.
The same three drawings with no captions under them, filling the whole sheet: the tiger, the little plane and Bip in a tiger costume. Choose them when you speak to the children in a language other than Polish.
There are no captions at the bottom of the boards, so the same A3 and A4 files work in every language.
Bip in a tiger costume on four pages: head, torso, left leg and right leg. Cut out the parts and put them together by the coloured strips: red to red, blue to blue, green to green.
Download PDF: Bip in a tiger costume to cut outOne file for every language. The short instruction at the bottom of each page is in Polish.
Bip without a costume on four pages: head, torso, left leg and right leg. Cut out the parts and put them together by the coloured strips: red to red, blue to blue, green to green.
Download PDF: Bip without a costume to cut outOne file for every language. The short instruction at the bottom of each page is in Polish.
One page for the adult with an idea for playing with Bip's four parts: the questions "Where is the head? Show us!", the coloured strips and a short note for children who prefer to watch. It is an idea, not a tested script.
Download PDF: Four-part Bip: an idea for playing with the youngestOne file for all languages. The text on the page is in Polish.
Four short MP3 recordings: purring, two different growls and a roar, the loudest of them. The sounds are generated by a computer. Play them quietly from a phone, only after announcing them, never suddenly. If a child gets worried, turn the sound down. Before you start, set the phone's volume with the roar, since it is the loudest, and only then play the rest.
Download: PurringDownload: Growl, little tigerDownload: Growl, friendlyDownload: Roar, the loudestOne set for every language, because these are only sounds, without words.
This is a separate extra sheet for the children. It is not for the riddle cards and does not fit their spaces.
An A4 sheet with four columns of six stickers: Little Tigers, Little Bees, Little Bears and Little Kangaroos. The stickers have no words. The column names and instructions are in the language of the file. Print at 100 percent scale on self-adhesive A4 paper and cut along the thin grey lines. Little Tigers have no film.
Download PDF: Round Bip stickers to cut outThe stickers are small, so children under three should only have them with an adult. For clothing, choose self-adhesive paper with a removable adhesive, because a permanent adhesive is hard to remove.
Need your own version of a film or printed Bip stickers? Ask on the order page.
Activities to print
Boards, cards and stickers for exploring AI together. We use a computer and Teachable Machine for the fruit experiment. Some activities with the printouts can also be done without a screen.
Choose the materials for your group. There are picture boards, activity cards and stickers to use at home or in your lessons.
Choose your materialsFor parents and teachers
Watch the film together. Pause for questions and check the computer’s answers. You can split a longer film across several sessions.
The films work best when a grown-up sits beside the child. Every film ends by reminding children to use computers and artificial intelligence together with a grown-up. Each film is built from short topics, so you can pause after any one of them and talk about it. The youngest group's film runs between 9 and 10 minutes and the oldest group's between 25 and 27, so the long one can be watched in parts.
The first four suit all three films. The last refers to the privacy section in the longest film, with Bip in a kangaroo costume.
Meet Bip
Bip is a cartoon robot who dresses up as each group’s animal. His lines are written in advance, and he sometimes gets things wrong on purpose so children can check his answers. Bip is not artificial intelligence.
Transparency
Some of what you see and hear in the films comes from a computer. Here is how each part was made.
Narrator's voice
A computer recreated my voice from my own recordings, and the recordings are in Polish. The cloned voice speaks Polish, English and Spanish for me.
Bip's voice
A computer generated Bip's voice. A person wrote Bip's words in advance, and Bip is not artificial intelligence.
Drawings
I typed what I wanted, and an AI program wrote the code that draws the pictures. The films show a short example: changing the rug in the picture to one with bananas. For the film I retyped the request, in English and in Spanish for those versions (the original was in Polish), and the wait was shortened.
Music
A script of my own synthesizes the music.
Photo
The films for Little Bears and Little Kangaroos show a real photo of a hall full of computers. Photo "BalticServers data center.jpg" (source page (opens in a new tab)) by BalticServers.com, CC BY-SA 3.0 (opens in a new tab), via Wikimedia Commons. The frame is cropped.
Training a program
In the Little Kangaroos film, I show how to train a simple model in Teachable Machine (opens in a new tab), a free tool from Google. The clip illustrates a real training session. The card photos were uploaded from files, without using a camera.
