AI@Education

Our goal

AI@Education is all about helping students and teachers to achieve an instinctive understanding of AI, enabling them to recognize and use AI-based tools consciously and with a clear intent. Our goal is to demystify AI as a concept, to show that you don't need to be a specialist to understand how it works and even come up with your own ideas of how you could use it. We're doing this through a combination of approaches, from clear and simple explanations to gamified experiences that sparks students' curiosity and help them get familiar with the most basic logic AI is based on.

We start with the most basic elements that help build a clear understanding of the entire concept, starting with questions such as "what does it mean to know something?" and "what does it mean to learn?"

We are developing a flexible and scalable application that schools can use to teach both teachers and students about AI, no matter the age or previous knowledge. The final course will offer both clear practical advice that both can use right away, as well as theoretical basis that will ensure long-term readiness for future developments.

Milestones

Milestones

The project AI@Education was divided into 6 stages:

Brainstorming
Collecting the ideas
Conceptualization
Development
Test & Evaluation
Scaling out

Brainstorming & Collecting the ideas (Stages 1 & 2)

The project AI@Education officially started in March 2024 with a kick-off involving multiple teachers from various types of schools. During this event, we conducted a workshop/brainstorming session to collect teachers' thoughts about AI, how it could be integrated into schools and teaching process, as well as problems that schools are currently facing in this area.

We continued meeting teachers from various school types and while the requests and comments were extremely varied, we eventually realized that the main issue the schools are facing today, both at the teacher and the student levels, is lack of understanding what AI is and how it functions. This in turn leads to inability to define the potential scope of its application, misunderstanding of its capabilities and lack of creativity in its application.

Conceptualization (Stage 3)

In the current state of the project, project scope and format are being defined and project is transitioning into the development stage. A low-fidelity prototype has been developed is being presented to testing groups to measure effectiveness of interactive elements and gather important feedback for further development.