Teaching Machine Learning to Middle and High School Students from a Low Socio-Economic Status Background
Ramon Mayor Martins,
Christiane Gresse Von Wangenheim,
Marcelo Fernando Rauber
et al.
Abstract:Knowledge about Machine Learning is becoming essential, yet it remains a restricted privilege that may not be available to students from a low socio-economic status background. Thus, in order to provide equal opportunities, we taught ML concepts and applications to 158 middle and high school students from a low socio-economic background in Brazil. Results show that these students can understand how ML works and execute the main steps of a human-centered process for developing an image classification model. No … Show more
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