March 23rd, 2015

The Magpie Chatbot Lab
Visit edmodo.com for the student guide.

Classwork:
Exploration
Have several conversations with your chatbot and answer the following questions:
• How does it respond to “where do you come from”?
• What is the most interesting response?
• What is the most peculiar response?
• How does it respond to “asdfghjkl;”? Exercises
Work with another group and have two different chatbots converse with each other.

Homework:
2 Questions
Simple chatbots act by looking for key words or phrases and responding to them.
1. Can you identify keywords to which your chatbot responds?
2. Think of several keywords and the responses they might cause.