Speakers notes at http://dalelane.co.uk/blog/?p=3685 Machine Learning for Kids puts IBM’s AI technologies in the hands of children so they can learn about AI by playing, experimenting and making with them. It was created as a volunteer activity, initially for Dale’s own use, but this was incrementally scaled - with a variety of approaches used to enable and encourage use by both IBM locations and schools around the world. This presentation describes some of the lessons learned doing this. It describes how you could increase the impact of the volunteer work that you do and ways to turn something that you do in a single local school into something that can be used around the world.

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How to
increase
the impact
you make

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Social Media

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Who am I? (Event Streams)

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Who am I? (SYA)

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Working on Watson

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Code Club
Learn about what is already being done

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Speaking at education conference
Understand what is needed

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Kids : Guess Who
Share what you try

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Kids : Rock Paper Scissors
Need a child-friendly training interface
Share what you try

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Local school running Guess Who
Release early. Release often.

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Two local schools
Release early. Release often.

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Idea : Worksheets
Create as much as you need (but no more)

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Top Trumps
Release early. Release often.

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Share Top Trumps
Share what you try

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Problems – need to scale it up
Create as much as you need (but no more)

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Idea : Need a platform
Understand what is needed

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Idea : Build on Scratch
Learn about what is already being done

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Idea : Build on Scratch
Extend, don’t re-invent

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Share idea
Share what you try

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First version of Make Me Happy
Share what you try

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Idea : Worksheets
Extend, don’t reinvent

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Verifying idea with teachers
Test your ideas. Then test them again.

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Verifying idea with teachers
Let your company help

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Calling on colleagues
Let your company help

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Calling on colleagues
Let your company help

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Partner with local schools
Find partners
Ideas
Create in
class
Document
Test in
other class
Publish
teachers
IBMers

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New features : Image hosting
Create as much as you need (but no more)

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Word of mouth – grows to a dozen schools
Release early. Release often.

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Internal Open Source – contributions from
colleagues
Let your company help

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Promoting to IBMers
Let your company help

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Self-signup – not just emailing me
Create as much as you need (but no more)

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IBM events
Let your company help

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IBM events
Let your company help

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Make the pain points painful

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Testing at external events
Test your ideas. Then test them again.

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Resource on IBM.com/volunteers
Let your company help

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IBM events
Let your company help

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Promoted by IBMers
Let your company help

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Supporting other languages in projects
Release early. Release often.

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Growing pains
Create as much as you need (but no more)

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Multi-region hosting
Let your company help

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Github open source
Share what you try

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Github open source
Make it easy for people to help

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Contributions from outside : App Inventor
Make it easy for people to help

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Contributions from outside : NLS support
Make it easy for people to help

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Removing need for signup
Create as much as you need (but no more)

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More automation – e.g. class management
Create as much as you need (but no more)

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Calling on colleagues
Understand what is needed

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Calling on colleagues
Let your company help

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Teachers TryScience
Go to where your users are

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Hello World
Share what you try

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More projects
Make something you can create in bite-size chunks

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Calling on colleagues - volunteers
Let your company help

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More schools

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Calling on colleagues - logo
Let your company help

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More features : Python
Understand what is needed

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More features : Python
Release early. Release often.

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Partnership with Apps for Good
Find partners

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More languages contributed – up to 12 now
Make it easy for people to help

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Schools contributing worksheets
Make it easy for people to help

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Partnership with Curiosity Machine
Find partners

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New features : tablet / mobile support
Release early. Release often.

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Partnership with App Camps
Find partners

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New features : sound
Release early. Release often.

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Partnership with Kids Code Jeunesse
Find partners

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Hello World
Find partners

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Education ministries
Find partners

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SummaryUnderstand what is needed
Learn about what is already being done
Extend, don’t re-invent
Go to where your users are
Release early. Release often.
Create as much as you need (no more)
Move the goalposts
Share what you try
Test your ideas. Then test them again.
Make something you can create in chunks
Make something you can park when busy
Let your company help
Make it easy for people to help
Find partners
Collaborate don’t compete