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Nate Karren's avatar

Another thought regarding AI and education in poor countries: the World Bank recently reported really cool results from a six week experiment in Nigeria. Students who used AI tutors with careful teacher supervision experienced about two years worth of education gains in English and digital literacy skills. Their full paper isn’t out yet, but their initial report offers some really encouraging findings for AI in education!

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Kevin Patrick Hallinan's avatar

Starting small.

A project through a partnership with "Back to Basics Education" (non-profit in Dayton, Ohio), Synota.io (digital finance company enabling pathway to donations), and Renewvia Energy Africa.

We are starting small with a project in Ozuzu Nigeria. We have obtained donation of money for a microgrid to supply power to a portion of the village including a school and a hospital.

The donation is paying for computers and AI data costs. I will be providing the AI facilitated education technology (accessible on-line). I will have a functioning website today. I am putting the last touches to it. I also have a person on the ground who will be the eyes and ears with the youth (the teacher). I will share with you when it becomes active.

We should be going in two months.

Ultimately the aim is to show that we can lift up youth faster to income, we can enable them to earn incomes and thus have a source of financial return to the project.

If you haven't seen this article, it is startling. 6 weeks of AI education (after school) = 2 years of traditional education

https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/education/From-chalkboards-to-chatbots-Transforming-learning-in-Nigeria

Similar results have been seen in a wealthy school in the US.

https://alpha.school/

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