How we're improving AI literacy in young people

Sep 04, 2024 09:50 PM - 6 months ago 220392

With nan accelerated advances successful AI and instrumentality learning, it’s much important than ever that young group understand nan ways it impacts their lives, nan domiciled it will play successful their future, and nan opportunities it affords.

That’s why today, we are delighted to denote that Google.org is providing $10M successful backing to nan Raspberry Pi Foundation to further grow entree to Experience AI, an acquisition programme co-created pinch Google DeepMind. This is portion of our broader committedness to support organizations helping young group build AI literacy, announced earlier this year.

With nan support of section partners pinch expertise connected nan ground, Experience AI provides teachers pinch nan training and resources needed to some amended and animate young group aged 11-14 astir AI.

Since its motorboat successful April 2023, Experience AI has been accessed by educators crossed 130 countries. The curriculum, created by Raspberry Pi Foundation successful collaboration pinch Google DeepMind, focuses connected a system learning journey, ethical considerations, real-world examples and domiciled models, and culturally applicable contented to prosecute divers learners successful knowing AI and really to usage it responsibly. Through this collaboration, Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind continued to create further resources, including 3 caller lessons centered astir AI safety.

Reaching much classrooms astir nan world

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is establishing caller partnerships to rotation retired nan programme successful 17 countries and 13 caller languages crossed Europe, Middle East and Africa, reaching much than 2 cardinal young people.

They will activity pinch this web of section partner organizations whose privilege is training teachers and educators who will thatch nan program successful schools and scope nan astir underserved teens.

These partner organizations will besides thief create bespoke localized versions of nan program’s resources. Localization is cardinal to making nan programme culturally relevant, accessible, and engaging for students, arsenic is nan training support for teachers and engaging support networks specified arsenic parents.

Photo depicting a group changeable of eachers and students astatine nan Experience AI motorboat arena successful Malaysia

Teachers and students astatine nan Experience AI motorboat arena successful Malaysia.

We will thatch much young group really to enactment safe pinch AI

Experience AI would beryllium thing without nan astonishing teachers and educators who dedicate their lives to empowering and inspiring young people, each day. They are responsible for delivering nan Experience AI programme and making it applicable and meaningful to nan students they activity with.

The lessons allowed them to understand nan benefits and nan risks of AI, and really it useful 'under nan hood’. I really enjoyed school this topic. Laura James
Teacher from King Edward’s School Bath

Building connected this success, Raspberry Pi Foundation is besides processing 3 caller cutting-edge lessons connected AI safety, designed to springiness learners nan skills needed to mitigate nan imaginable risks and challenges associated pinch nan technology, whilst turning them into empowered users of AI. The caller materials cover:

  • AI and Your Data: Helping young group bespeak connected nan information they are already providing to AI applications successful their lives and really nan prevalence of AI devices mightiness alteration nan measurement they protect their data.
  • Media Literacy successful nan Age of AI: Highlighting nan ways AI devices tin beryllium utilized to perpetuate misinformation and really AI applications tin thief combat misleading claims.
  • Using Generative AI Responsibly: Empowering young group to bespeak connected their responsibilities erstwhile utilizing Generative AI and their expectations of developers who merchandise AI tools.

Photo of Ben Garside, 1 of nan lead educators moving connected Experience AI, taking a group of students done 1 of nan lessons.

Ben Garside, 1 of nan lead educators moving connected Experience AI, takes a group of students done 1 of nan lessons.

A agleam early for nan adjacent procreation of AI innovators

Thanks to our collaboration pinch Raspberry Pi Foundation, their section partners who stock our vision, and nan unthinkable teachers and educators who bring nan programme to life, we couldn’t beryllium much excited astir nan early of Experience AI. Together we dream to empower young group and animate nan adjacent procreation of AI innovators to usage nan exertion to make a affirmative effect successful society.

For much accusation connected Experience AI and to download nan instruction resources, sojourn nan Experience AI website.

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