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Today we’ll learn about robots, how computers learn… and how they might learn the wrong things. When computers learn to solve problems based on examples, it’s called machine learning. And the examples we use to teach them are called training data.

The Internet often feels invisible, but actually it is very real! The Internet is made up of millions of computers. Data travels between computers through wires, cables, cellular towers and satellites. All over the world and in every town there are ISP boxes, wires, manhole covers and routers that help the Internet work.

There are different ways to put information into a computer, like the keyboard or a mouse.

List all the computers you see during the week.

A foldable computer you can color and design!

Download the postcards to make a geeky holiday greeting, or build your own RAM, ROM & CPU tree with the patterns.

Scratch is a wonderful programming playground and now you can use sprites from Hello Ruby with your creations!

Plan & play your own video channel - and learn how algorithms work while at it!

What do art and algorithms have in common? How fast is a computer? And what are humans good at?

Different operating systems share a lot of things. Now it’s your turn to build an operating system for a phone.

The computer needs memory to work as well as many other components. With this memory game you'll get to know the different components of a computer. You'll also get to test and develop your own memory.

In the final exercise you’ll build your own computer keyboard. You’ll also learn about alphabets, numbers, and symbols.

In the future more and more things will be programmable. Imagine if everything had a computer inside and you'd have the universal remote. This is an exercise where you'll get to practice building a remote and giving commands.