Over the next few months, more than 30 teachers in each of the partner countries (IE, LU, SI) will be testing our innovative learning scenarios, materials, and the free, open-source data analysis tool Orange Data Mining adapted for school use, to bring dataliteracy education to European primary schools (students aged 10-12).

These past few weeks, the team in Slovenia at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Computer and Information Science has been printing, cutting, bundling, packing, and dispatching boxes with the printed materials for about 50 schools all around the country.

At the introductory webinar, team in Slovenia introduced the teachers to the AI and machine learning challenges they will embark on this school year with 10-12-year-old kids from all around the country. They got to know more about our team, found out more practical details about the plan for the activities and the resources we have prepared for them, and got to see the faces of all the other teachers involved in the Slovenian cohort of the project.

In Slovenia, so far:

• 32 primary school teachers have tested our recommender systems activity (Cartoon Recommendation),
• 25 have experimented with Prediction Models (the Gnomes activity),
• 8 have explored data clustering through the Climate Zones activity,
• and 6 have played the Candy Computer game (exploring the real meaning of intelligence).

Teachers tell us they appreciate the prepared video tutorials. Since the start of this phase, we have also organised two online check-ins, where teachers shared their experience, while the team at the answered their questions and addressed their comments related to the implementation.

See more on LinkedIn: Prepairing materials, Introductory webinar, Process and feedback