For many, machine learning is difficult to grasp and something few have concrete experience with. At the machine learning workshop hosted by SHAPE and Dokk1 on February 22, however, visitors were invited to try out machine learning by use of ml-machine.org, a platform developed in collaboration with Center for Computational Thinking and Design for hands-on machine learning in primary schools and high schools. 

Workshop participants got the opportunity to build their own machine learning system for recognizing movements with a Micro:bit, and, together with staff from Dokk, SHAPE-postdoc Magnus Høholt Kaspersen was ready to assist and discuss where and how we meet machine learning in our everyday life. 

"The machine learning workshop is an attempt to investigate how to frame teaching in machine learning in a more open format, and we are especially interested in how to create an 'aha' moment that makes people curious on machine learning." - Magnus Høholt Kaspersen, postdoc in the SHAPE-project 'Digital Literacy and Machine Learning'

The main library, Dokk1, reiterated the workshop on February 25, where families with young children participated: 

"The latest workshop in particular has provided us with a lot of valuable feedback on how to continue the development of the tool and how to create more interest among participants, especially with regards to fostering a feeling of succes when participants create a functional machine learning system for the very first time." - Magnus Høholt Kaspersen 

Read more about the SHAPE-project 'Digital Literacy and Machine Learning'.