Inspiring Kids to Learn Code
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Despite the tremendous digital revolution we are experiencing, computer science is still in its early days in the elementary school curriculum in most countries. We'll see how the developer community can fill this void. There are many organizations and resources to support and inspire kids to learn code with languages such as Scratch and Python. We will demonstrate how real kids can interface virtual and physical world using Internet of Things.
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- 1. Inspiring Kids to Learn Code
- 2. Welcome to the Hyperconnected Digital World Welcome
- 3. f(x)=2x Source: Race Against the Machine, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2011, MIT Center for Digital Business Moore law: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law SAP Source: How To Direct Your Digital Future: 4 Questions The Second Half of the Chess Board and Gordon Moore’s law
- 4. Main topic of 2016 Davos World Economic Forum
- 5. Bad news! machines are taking over Jeopardy, 2011Chess, 1997 Self driving car, 2014 Go, 2016
- 6. Atlas 2016 Click to start the video
- 7. Good news! human + machine > machine Source: The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014 MIT Center for Digital Business
- 8. What should we give kids to thrive in the Digital World? DIGITAL LITERACY VS COMPUTER SCIENCE “Children must learn computer science in elementary school, like Reading, Writing and Math”
- 9. Computer science teaches kids to be problem solver and innovators. Top 10 skills required in 2020: 1. Complex problem solving 2. Critical thinking 3. Creativity 4. People management 5. Coordinating with others 6. Emotional intelligence 7. Judgment and decision making 8. Service orientation 9. Negotiation 10.Cognitive flexibility Source: Future of jobs report, World economic forum 2016
- 15. Minecraft Teaching: Logic & Electricity
- 16. Minecraft Teaching: Computer Programming • MOD: Java, scriptcraft, python • Programming inside Minecraft with Computercraft
- 17. • qCraft – the Quantum Mechanics Mod • Teaches students about different aspects of Quantum Mechanics http://youtu.be/hygLNR_wGPo (3:24) • Entanglement • Superposition (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewL0Yg9kt-o (1:24)) • Observational dependency More on minecraft teaching: http://www.slideshare.net/RickHendersonLaurier/teaching-with-minecraft- minecraft-for-teachers Minecraft Teaching: Quantum Physics
- 18. Minecraft and yaas Source: https://wiki.hybris.com/display/prodandtech/Lunch+Talk+-+Connecting+YaaS+to+Minecraft http://shops.yaas.io
- 19. GOPIGO
- 20. Two years old &
- 21. makeblock.com (Opensource platform) mBot robot (arduino based) http://makeblock.com/mbot-stem-educational-robot-kit-for-kids mBlock.cc (Scratch & Arduino based)
- 22. Emma, 9 years old: Minecraft, LittleBits, IoT 4th grade Science Project (in their words): “Monde virtuel et monde réel : Minecraft et le robot LittleBits ” “Virtual world and the real world: Minecraft and the LittleBits Robot”
- 23. 9 Years Old Science Project (how to http://emmacode.org in French) Virtual World Laptop Minecraft with Mod Physical World Electronic things Littlebits Connect using Cloudbits Wi-Fi “Internetdesobjets”
- 25. Wiring Minecraft and Cloudbits through Internet
- 26. Working in team Detailed information (in French) http://emmacode.org
- 27. What can we do to scale?
- 29. Computer Science For All, President Obama, Jan 2016
- 30. Ask our Governments to have mandatory Computer Science in K-12 schools across Canada
- 31. Sample and guidelines: http://kidscodejeunesse.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/lobby20161.pdf Send a letter, Get an answer, Share
- 32. But, what can we do now to scale?
- 36. Send letters to government representatives Register as Volunteer: kidscodejeunesse.org/volunteers/ Open a Code club in your area: www.codeclubworld.org Contact me jean-francois.gailleur@sap.com
Editor's Notes
- Good morning We were supposed to be two for the talk, my daughter Emma and myself. However, Emma could not come, she has a math exam at school today, and you’ll get that I consider math an important topic to learn for kids This picture was taken during a workshop with kids from age 8 to 10 years old, learning Scratch at the Notman house. Notman House is a physical campus dedicated to supporting the Montreal Startup ecosystem. http://notman.ca/ ------------
- Welcome to digital world Welcome to our hyper connected world. Welcome to the digital revolution That’s our new world, that’s your new word, and that’s going to be even truer for our kids and the coming generation. ----------------------------------------------- Starting story NOTSURE, I’ll start with the exponential gordon moore laws 1) Few weeks ago, was shopping for a home and cars insurance replacement. 2) Doing the quote Question from the sales agent on the phone: Do you have a collection of CD-DVD worth more than 3,000 dollars? 640 CDs at 15 each = $10,000 But the world has changed !!! 3) Then for car insurance, question: are you interested of using our Mobile App
- Welcome to the second half of the chess board There is an ancient story which go like this. (Ancien story about math made relevant to the present age by the innovator and futurist Ray Kurzweil) In ancient time, the inventor of the game of chess shows his creation to his country ruler. The emperor is so delighted by the game that he allows the inventor to name his own reward. What do you want? The clever man asks for a quantity of rice to be determined as follows: one gran of rice is placed on the first suqare of the chessboard, two grains o the second, four on the first and so on with each square receiving twice as many grains as the previous. The emperor agrees, thinking that this reward was too small. By the middle of the chess board (around suqre 32), it was equivalent to the production of a field of rice. The emperor eventually sees, however, the constant doubling resulting in 2 exponent 64 -1, which is more than the current world production of rice or pile bigger than Mount Everest. In some version of the story, the emperor is so displeased at being outsmarted that he beheads the inventor. So has you can see it’s hard to understand the exponential function of constant doubling. F(x)=2exp(x) Moore law In short, Moore law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (microchip) is doubling every 18months. Gordon Moore was one of the co-fonder of Intel in 1968, which was a very good year! In a 1965 article in Electronics Magazine, Moore noted that the number of transistors in a minimum-cost integrated circuit had been doubling every 12 months, and predicted that this same rate of improvement would continue into the future. The law was modified slightly to 18 months (software improvement). 1988-2003: Processor speed by 1,000, Algorithms got 43,000 times better This was roughtly 50 years ago, so 32 iterations (50 / 1,5) remember this number What is significant is that Moore’s law technically entered the second half of the chess board in 2013! If you remember computer science course, current computers are based on microprocessors, one of them being the central processing unit (CPU). The key element of the CPU is the ALU (Arithmetic & Logic Unit).ALU are based on the concept of logic gates, which in the physical electronic world are transistors. Conclusion of the slide That’s how you current smart phone has more processing power than the whole NASA had in 1969 when they placed human for the first time on the moon, or the CRAY 2 which was the most powerful computer in 1990, so 25 years ago. SAP: , http://www.digitalistmag.com/digital-economy/digital-futures/2015/05/19/grok-digital-future-02707902
- Exponential acceleration, of technology is noticed, and was one of the main topic for Davos To name few disruptive technology - 3D Printing of physical goods but also lately printing body organs – body parts - Internet of things (bridge between physical and digital) Sequencing of genome: First Human Genome Project lasted 10 years and cost 2.7 billion Now a genome can be sequenced in few hours for less than thousands dollars Mobile first, and mobile only Artificial intelligence Cloud Advanced material like graphen (atomic sheet of honey comb of carbon atom) It is about 100 times stronger than the strongest steel with a one atom thick of disruption per industry Education: coursera, online platform, don’t need to be on site anymore Banking: blockchain Technology companies: cloud, ondemand Media: the end of paper newspaper, Facebook has no people creating media content! crow Cable and Telco: Medical: connected consumer Travel: Uber, airbnd (sharing) Government: open data projects Consumer Goods Retail: http://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/business-technology/our-insights/disruptive-technologies Disruptive technology: Mobile Internet Automation of knowledge work Internet of Things Cloud Advanced Robotics Autonomous and near autonomous vehicles Next Generationgenomics Energy storage 3-d Ptinigin Advanced material (atomic scale) SAP FUTURE OF BUSINESS IN DIGITAL WORLD http://www.slideshare.net/sap/99-facts-on-the-future-of-business-in-the-digital-economy/19-50_of_the_US_jobs 4th industrial revolution: Mega trends Physical Autonmous vehicules 3 d printings Advanced robotics New materials (e.g. graphene nanomaterial, 200 times stronger than steel, million times thineer than a human hair, and an efficient conductor of heat and electricity) Digital Internet of things (bridge between physical and digital) On-demand economy with the uber - airbnb model, facebook Crow sourcing Biological First Human Genome Project lasted 10 years and cost 2.7 billion Now a genome can be sequenced in few hours for less than thousands dollars Agriculutre, biofuel IBM Watson supercomputer system can help recommend in few minutes pesonalizaed tgreatment for cancer patients by comparing the histories of disease and treatment againt the complete universe of up-to-date medical knowledge
- With all these new technologies, it feels like machine are taking over Chess game master Garry Kasperov lost to IBM Blue in 1997 IBM Watson won in 2011 this popular Jeopardy game in the US. Self-driving cars made the news a lot starting in 2013 And as we speak Google AlphaGo (based on neural networks, deep machine learning) is wining over master Lee Sedol (I think it’s 3 games for now). Go is very hard to modelise, Go has more possibility 10 exponent 123 than the estimated number of atoms in the visible universe 10 exponent 80 So I can hear some of you saying, that’s very identified purpose, just driving, just playing a game. ------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watson_(computer)
- 4 minutes With Aritifical Intelligence and ectronics improvement are coming some new General Purpose Technology Let’s meet Atlas for example. Video just released from Boston Dynamics, company building robots mainly for the US Army, bought by Google https://youtu.be/rVlhMGQgDkY?t=10 Start at 1:21 stop around 2:08 0:10 Opening a door, 0:22 walking in snow 0:58 walking with men Doing some manutention Being able to get back on his legs I hope the robots don’t remember what this guy did to this one
- For now and for the visible future, human plus machine continue to be better than machine alone. Take chess, for example, machine plus human always win against a machine alone. It’s not me saying it but Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee both professors and researchers at the MIT Center for digital business. I really encourage you to read their two last book, race against the machine and the second machine age ---------
- Alan Turing 1912-1954 Considered the Father of the computer science Turing Machine: mathematical model which can simulate aby algorithm logic. Digital literacy = consumption Computer science = participation ------- A Turing machine is an abstract machine[1] that manipulates symbols on a strip of tape according to a table of rules; to be more exact, it is a mathematical model that defines such a device.[2] Despite the model's simplicity, given anycomputer algorithm, a Turing machine can be constructed that is capable of simulating that algorithm's logic.[3] Turing test Mandatory school became mandatory in 18th and 19th century
- TOP 3 skills required in 2020 are directly impacted by Computer Science learning Learning to code doesn’t just mean you can become a developer - it strengthens complex problem solving, logical thinking, critical thinking and creativity skills which are useful for a range of other disciplines, careers and hobbies. -------------------------------------------------- What to do (source http://theeducatedmom.com/worldeconomicforum/) Support your child in learning the essential, foundation material being taught in school. A strong general knowledge base remains essential for critical thinking. Quite simply, students can’t analyze what they don’t know or understand. Provide plenty of opportunities for problem solving. Allow your child to try something, not succeed, and provide encouragement to try again. The saying is true – we learn best from our own mistakes. Ask your child “why?” Why did she enjoy that movie? Why do you want that game? Why is this your favorite class? And when your child asks you “why?” provide a meaningful answer that offers insight into your thought process. The most analytical thinkers are often those who continue to ask questions when everyone else has stopped. “65 percent of children entering grade school this year will end up working in careers that haven't even been invented yet.” Source: Now you see it, Cathy Davidson, 2011 Learning to code doesn’t just mean you can become a developer - it strengthens problem solving and logical thinking skills, and is useful for a range of other disciplines, careers and hobbies. For further reading on the subject: John Naughton at The Guardian Douglas Rushkoff - Teach Kids Code Next Gen Report by Ian Livingstone and Alex Hope When not knowing a langage, cluless when seeing code in movies or computer: scary http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/04/computer-science-is-the-key-to-americas-skills-crisis/
- 8 minutes First: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/editor/ Second: can do serious game: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/2345919 Learning how to do it http://scratched.gse.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/pacman_lesson.pdf Immediate satisfaction (need immediate results until age 11)
- When kids getting older, they can start playing with Python
- I mean this python Python is a widely used high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.[22][23] Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability, and its syntax allows programmers to express concepts in fewer lines of code than would be possible in languages such as C++ or Java.[24][25] The language provides constructs intended to enable clear programs on both a small and large scale.[26] Good books introducing python with games CPython, the reference implementation of Python, is free and open-source software and has a community-based development model, as do nearly all of its alternative implementations. CPython is managed by the non-profit Python Software Foundation.
- 12 minutes Minecraft cannot resist Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Started in 2011, sold over 70 millions copy Acquired by Microsoft late 2014 ----------------------------------------- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minecraft Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox video game originally created by Swedish programmer Markus "Notch" Persson and later developed and published by Mojang. The creative and building aspects of Minecraft enable players to build constructions out of textured cubes in a 3D procedurally generated world. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat. Multiple gameplay modes are available, including survival mode where the player must acquire resources to build the world and maintain health, a creative mode where players have unlimited resources to build with and the ability to fly, an adventure mode where players can play custom maps created by other players, and a spectator mode where players can fly around and clip through blocks, but cannot place or destroy any. The PC version of the game is renowned for its third-party mods, which add various new items, characters, worlds, and quests to the game. Minecraft received five awards during the 2011 Game Developers Conference. Of the Game Developers Choice Awards, it won the Innovation Award, Best Downloadable Game Award, and Best Debut Game Award; from the Independent Games Festival, it won the Audience Award and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize. In 2012, Minecraft was awarded a Golden Joystick Award in the category Best Downloadable Game. As of June 2015, over 70 million copies had been sold, including 20 million between the Xbox 360 and Xbox One, 30 million mobile game downloads, and 20 million on PC,[12] making it the best-selling PC game to date and the third best-selling video game of all time. On September 15, 2014, Microsoft announced a deal to buy Mojang and the ownership of the Minecraft intellectual property for US$2.5 billion; the acquisition was completed on November 6, 2014.
- Redstone concept Like electricity in the virtual world, light sensor, wire, switch, led and more Logical Gate
- Programmable Turtles (http://youtu.be/n_L8RE26twM)
- Minecraft
- Easier than quantum physics https://wiki.hybris.com/display/prodandtech/Lunch+Talk+-+Connecting+YaaS+to+Minecraft
- TOYS www.raspberrypi.org http://littlebits.cc/
- Real Robots controlled from Minecraft world Interaction between light detectors from the physical world and the virtual world ------ http://littlebits.cc/cloudstart
- What I shown you is good, but what can we do to scale There are resources, languages, hardware to play with First, we have to involve governments ---------
- Big Buz in Europe in 2012 on adding Informatics education into the primary school program
- We are late in Canada Now country like Finland have computer science program at the elementary school (known for the best primary school system in the world) Other countries with MANDATORY Computer science program in Elementary school Big buz in Europe in 2012 on having code in elementary school UK FINLAND 2011: Estonia at age of 6 2012: buz on having code in Europe Germany, Finland, …. -------------- Countries who have included as mandatory Computer science in primary school curriculums Australia (Government put 1M) Japan https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/01/30/computer-science-all http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/24/computer-science-is-now-a-high-school-graduation-requirement-in-chicagos-public-school-district/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook Computer SCience for all https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/01/30/computer-science-all Computer Science Is Now A High School Graduation Requirement In Chicago’s Public School District: http://techcrunch.com/2016/02/24/computer-science-is-now-a-high-school-graduation-requirement-in-chicagos-public-school-district/?ncid=rss&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Techcrunch+%28TechCrunch%29&utm_content=FaceBook&sr_share=facebook Summary: Learn about President Obama’s bold new initiative to empower a generation of American students with the computer science skills they need to thrive in a digital economy. In the United Kingdom, students start to learn to code in school at 5 yrs old. In China, students must take computer science in order to graduate from high school. In Fall 2016, Finland will make programming part of the basic primary school curriculum. Australia, Brazil, and France are other countries who are rapidly moving ahead in bringing code to students. Time for Canada and Quebec
- ENCOURAGE WOMEN TO GO TO STEM BY HAVING IT AT YOUNG AGE Justin Trudeau, Canada’s new prime minister is now also a minister of youth. (young people) Quebec education ministers: Sébastien Proulx, PLQ (depuis le 22 février 2016) Pierre Moreau, PLQ (28 janvier 2016 - 22 février 2016) François Blais, PLQ (26 février 2015 - 28 janvier 2016) Yves Bolduc, PLQ (23 avril 2014 - 26 février 2015) ------- Quebec: http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/le-ministere/presentation-du-ministere/ministre-de-leducation-du-loisir-et-du-sport/ http://www.education.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/site_web/documents/PSG/ress_humaines/MEESorganigramme.pdf https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minist%C3%A8re_de_l%27%C3%89ducation,_de_l%27Enseignement_sup%C3%A9rieur_et_de_la_Recherche Sébastien Proulx, PLQ (depuis le 22 février 2016) Pierre Moreau, PLQ (28 janvier 2016 - 22 février 2016) François Blais, PLQ (26 février 2015 - 28 janvier 2016) Yves Bolduc, PLQ (23 avril 2014 - 26 février 2015) 1) Different schools in Montreal Some are well funded, e.g. robotics leave A lot of different Diversity (not only girl) Access is important issue (more than gender, at least in Montreal) For some kids with technology experiences, they understand e are Technology is not something we receive, but it’s something we are 2) Lot of teacher are very scared by technology and don’t want Access for teachers
- Justin Trudeau, Canadian prime minister and minister of youth Sebastien Proulx, Quebec education minister Your federal and provincial representatives --------
- But what can we do now, as we know government are not the fastest movers for a certain number of reasons. ----
- Someone can help : KidsCodeJeunesse Kids Code Jeunesse is a Canadian not for profit organization dedicated to empowering kids, teachers and parents with the skills we all need to thrive in a technology driven society. Founded in 2014 Staff: 4 full time, one in Vancouver, 3 Montreal people Education committee: 12 people Teachers and computer science Instructor: 15 instructors (paid) 700 volunteers 6,000 kids trained in Canada over the last three years, 80% in Montreal at the moment -------
- http://kidscodejeunesse.org/volunteers/ Volunteers expectations Venue (e.g. a library) then publicize 8 hours program, like lunch time, or after school Training the teachers Volunteers, can be ambasadors - evangelist Getting good information on volunteers, so that Matching volunteers with opportunities Create a volunteer profile kidscodejeuness.org, becoming a volunteer Then you getting the news letter On the dashboard, basic material for Email: barb@kidscodejeuness.org Introducing to school Awareness among parents, among school Share your expectations (doing a Share with feedback Translation Administrative Launching the codeclub website (wordpress) Camps 8 hours program Volunteers, Introduce programmation (Scratch, Python…) Push your local school to offer after hours (parascolaire) Create a code club in your area Raise awareness around you
- https://www.codeclubworld.org/ Will be organized by kidscodejeunesse, launching officially in March-April 2016 in Canada, but go ahead Looking for a full time code club coordinator in Canada Lot of Material We’ll be launched in March 2016 in Canada Almost 4000 club around the world Great material, easy to teach, easy to take in any venue, don’t need a lot of training ------------- Code club = Volunteers: +Venue: library, school +Project: self contained, designed to be finished in one hour +Children: 14 kids per code club Code years 9-11 40% of girls Curriculum: Scratch, HTML-CSS, Python Volunteer: commit for 6-12 weeks Translate: (in French, some are translated by France, but not all of them) Donate or introduce to Donors Spread the world Involve your company-workplace www.codeclubworld.org @CodeClubWord Usually: once a week like Saturday morning Bring your own laptop, or get a class with computers venues need to have computers CodeClub is now a subsidiary of Rasbery Pi
- Key message: You’ve been lucky to enter into the software industry, for whatever reasons, your parents, your curiosity, a friend… and your effort and perseverance to learn. Even if some days it feel hard, we are very lucky and have good living It’s time to give back and help the next generations so that they can have a bright future and help to make the world a better place