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Pockets of excellence of people are breaking barriers at the frontier of AI even in Africa – Shingai

We know what you do reviewing your profile. How did you get into AI in education? I am a data scientist by profession and the first job I got out of the university was analysing point of sale data on behalf of retailers and manufacturers brands such as Johnson and Johnson, Colgate, and more were […]

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We found an alternate pedagogy that is experiential, learn by doing – Agustín Alejandro

You have been to sixty-plus countries, how has that influenced the way you see the world? I love engaging with people, knowing cultures, seeing how we live and how we love, and creating community. In essence, humans are social animals. We like to live in communities. We are family groups. It was beautiful to see

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AI in Education

UNESCO survey shows 90% of schools, universities have no formal guidance on AI

About 90 per cent of the more than 450 schools and universities that participated in a recent United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) global survey on the deployment of generative artificial intelligence (AI) applications have no institutional rules and/or formal guidance. The survey was prepared for the Ministerial Roundtable on Generative AI and

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Academy wants Artificial intelligence in school curriculum

A learning solution-providing organisation, Afrelib Academy has urged the federal government to include Artificial Intelligence (AI), one of the global emerging technologies, in school curriculum across the country. The head of operations/programme, Joyce Gomina, said such efforts would save teachers’ time and at the same time make learning fun. Addressing newsmen at a press briefing

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FG to Include Coding, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence in Curricula

The Federal Ministry of Education has disclosed plans to include coding, robotics and artificial intelligence in the country’s school curricula. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, disclosed this in Abuja at the 2019/2020 Nigeria Championship in Robotics. He noted that the move aimed at taking students to the 21st century technology and educational

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Shortcomings of Educational Technology

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. The evidence that students learn better this way has not been strong and, instead, we’re reading reports that technology use

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Will Technology Replace Teachers in the Future?

Will technology replace teachers in the future? In this era of innovations, one cannot ignore the fact that students also need various innovations of modern technology to study. Thus, we are not wrong in saying that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is replacing everything, even teachers. But the question however remains – Will technology replace teachers in

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