Machine Learning for Kids

There is only one effective learning principle when it comes to machine learning: "Hands-on learning is key." Neither kids nor adults are able to develop a clear understanding what machine learning is and how it works without trying it for themselves, ideally with use cases that are interesting and relevant to the individual. MachineLearningforKids.co.uk is super simple, but at the same time it brings a lot of the machine learning power of IBM Watson to the table. Developed and maintained by Dale Lane from IBM, the site enables kids or basically any age to visually train their own machine algorithm and then use the resulting inference model to solve simple or complex challenges in the visual and fully browser-based Scratch programming language. Dale's concept is as simple as it is brilliant, as he shows kids in one go how to train a machine learning model and then how to use it in their own Scratch program.