Four trips into AI challenge
In Slovenia 38 schools took part and succeeded in a challenge designed for upper basic school kids and their teachers, called it Four Trips into AI.
The challenge consisted four data literacy activities, developed in the project: Cartoons Recommender System, What do Gnomes Do?, Climate Zones and Candy Computer.
In the practical, engaging activities, students learn about some key concepts, applications, and techniques from machine learning, data analytics, and AI, such as recommender systems, classification, clustering, and reinforcement learning.
52 teachers took on the challenge, studied the materials, and implemented them in their classrooms all around the country. To complete it, their students needed to successfully finish at least three out of the four activities. More than 1100 students successfully completed the challenge.
Throughout the challenge, DALI4US team members were in touch with the teachers both in person and online, and received many exciting reports, photos, and feedback. To celebrate the fantastic work in schools all around the country, we decided to reward the teachers and students with custom-designed hoodies and T-shirts.
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Teacher training Slovenia: Workshops with innovative pedagogy
In Slovenia, we brought together teachers from another project that develops and promotes innovative approaches.
The goal was to showcase, experiment with, and discuss with the teachers effective ways to teach AI and data literacy through a set of exploratory activities we have designed to bring the principles of data exploration and machine learning approaches closer to basic school children.
The tour started in Muta, where we were welcomed by our largest group of participants, around 60 teachers. In Črenšovci and Šentjur, we worked with groups of around 30 teachers.
In the workshops, we put teachers in the role of students and guided them through several fun and engaging learning activities, both unplugged and with Orange Data Mining. The teachers feedback and ideas included suggestions to improve instructions for teachers and helped further develop the Animal Tree activity.
You can find all the mentioned learning activities on https://gairdin.eu/
