On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 4:29 AM April DeGennaro <degennaro.april@mail.fcboe.org> wrote:
Jessie,I am interested in this and will look at the free session later. Tensor Flow is beyond my elementary students and my district, like many, has moved to 1:1 Chromebooks so we have no more computers and teachers have a laptop as their desktop which goes with them to meetings, etc. We are a Google domain that relies on web-based service providers and Google Drive for K-5 (kids get Gmail access in 6th grade.)
Tensorflow Playground is a great tool to understand neural networks. https://playground.tensorflow.org/ It does take some prep to teach students what the knobs are for to make it a meaningful learning experience. It runs on browsers. Lots of students take our classes use chromebooks. Chromebooks should be able to support a well designed curriculum for elementary and middle school students.
Your product is priced beyond my school budget, however I could see doing the free session with my students in school and then sending home the link for parents to do at home. Is it $129 per person for each class which is 4 sessions? The total investment would be about $400 per child? I was confused about the dates of the sessions. Are those just to help people stay on track or is there a live classroom component?
Yes, it is $129. But we will be publishing new pricing soon that gives significant discounts if students sign up for all 3 classes (12 sessions total) to complete this phase of learning, as we hope students will get a comprehensive review of AI.
As mentioned today, we decided to teach 15 sessions to schools for free to celebrate Hour of Code this year (even though it is AI, since everyone else is doing coding :)). Ping me if anyone is interested. We have given out half of them already to our local title 1 schools & library programs.
Jessie
Thank you for sharing!AprilOn Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 4:09 AM Ken Kahn <toontalk@gmail.com> wrote:Looks very nice Jessie.I would like to hear a discussion of the trade-offs between cloud-based and device-based hands-on AI experiences and programming. When I was working with the European eCraft2Learn project we initially focussed on child-friendly programming interfaces to AI cloud services but when TensorFlow.js came out we shifted focus. The amount of AI students can do with TensorFlow.js (again with a friendlier interface than JavaScript) in a browser is very impressive. They can integrate a wide variety of pre-trained models into their projects. They can create deep learning models, train them, and use them.Relying on TensorFlow.js means no installation, no requirement for good Internet access (one can run applications with a local web server), no API keys, and no privacy concerns (everything stays on the user's device). While some services are hard to run locally - e.g. general speech-to-text (though a small vocabulary is feasible).On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 06:04, Jessie Jiang (via ai4k12 list) <ai4k12@lists.aaai.org> wrote:Hello,
This is Jessie. I joined this mailing list a while back. It has been great to be part of the community.
We founded Create & Learn (www.create-learn.us) about 2 years ago and we have taught AI to thousands of students in elementary and middle schools. Before Create & Learn, I was a Director of Product Management at Google Cloud Platform. My team launched most of Google Cloud’s core products in the early days including Compute Engine, Storage, BigQuery, etc.
Create & Learn is a result of seeing the big gap between STEM education in k12 and the forefront of technologies in the real world. While I was still at Google, I volunteered for several years to teach my daughter’s classes coding since she was 6. By the time they were in 4th grade, we have covered Scratch and Minecraft coding very well. The next thing on coding would have been something like Python, but I didn’t feel that’s a very relevant topic for 4th graders to learn. On the other hand, in my work, we interacted with many companies in a wide variety of industries - health care, finance, transportation, sports, and many more, and saw first hand how cloud, AI, and data science are transforming every industry. Moreover, a lot of technological principles behind these cutting edge technologies are critical for every kid to know regardless of their career paths. So I started teaching the 4th graders AI and Data Science based on what I saw are the essence of these fields from the work at Google. They loved it and their teachers loved it. One thing led to another, Create & Learn was founded.
We offer an hour-long introduction class on AI for free. Everyone is welcome to sign up https://www.create-learn.us/ai-explorers#ai-explorers_0. You can join from any part of the world. Our full AI curriculum for grades 4-6 includes 12 hours of materials and we offer free training to teachers who are committed to teach their students in schools. Ping me if you are interested.
It is super exciting to find this community several months ago. We have been adjusting our curriculum based on the work here. Would love to contribute in any way that is needed.--To unsubscribe from this list please go to http://archives.simplelists.com
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