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Experience AI Canada — Digital Moment's Bilingual AI Curriculum with Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 5% 80/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

Montreal nonprofit Digital Moment (formerly Kids Code Jeunesse) is Canada's sole partner for Experience AI, a free bilingual AI curriculum built with the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind; the organisation reports reaching 850,000+ youth and 31,500+ teachers to date.

>850,000 young people
Youth reached (cumulative, since 2013) (2013-2024)
>31,500 teachers
Teachers reached (cumulative, since 2013) (2013-2024)
>120,000 students
Students reached via micro:bit rollout (by 2019) (by 2019)
54 %
Girls among micro:bit rollout participants (by 2019)
>200,000 students
Students reached by Experience AI globally before Canada joined (Sept 2022-Nov 2023)
Experience AI Canada — Digital Moment's Bilingual AI Curriculum with Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Digital Moment (formerly Kids Code Jeunesse)
Period
2013–2026
Keywords
AI literacy, teacher training, bilingual education, nonprofit

Context

Digital Moment (formerly Kids Code Jeunesse), a Montreal nonprofit founded in 2013, is Canada's exclusive partner for Experience AI, a free bilingual (English/French) AI-literacy curriculum built by the UK's Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind.

Activities

The Canadian rollout comprises six lessons plus supplementary activities and a teacher-facing introductory machine-learning course, unveiled on 26 April 2024 in Montreal for high-school students and teachers, timed to Quebec's new mandatory "Culture and Citizenship in Québec" course.

Results

Digital Moment reports reaching over 850,000 young people and 31,500+ teachers across Canada since 2013 (mostly through earlier coding/digital-literacy programmes such as its micro:bit rollout, which reached 120,000+ students by 2019, 54% of them girls); these cumulative totals are self-reported and not broken out by AI-strand participation.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k) — No cost figures published; funded via nonprofit operations and international partnerships (Raspberry Pi Foundation, Google DeepMind).
Time to results
Long (> 3 years) — Digital Moment founded 2013; Experience AI Canada partnership announced November 2023, launched 26 April 2024, ongoing.
Staffing & skills
Digital Moment (nonprofit) staff, Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind (curriculum co-developers)

Conditions for success

  • Bilingual translation/localisation of curriculum for the Canadian context
  • Alignment with Quebec's mandatory digital-competence curriculum
  • Partnership with international curriculum developers (Raspberry Pi Foundation, Google DeepMind)

Common failure modes

  • Self-reported reach figures not independently audited or broken out by AI-specific participation

Where it fits

Governance type
nonprofit-led, government-aligned
Scale
national (Canada)
Income level
high-income

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