I was fortunate last week to catch up via video call with @wernerio who works on open education through the Library of National Congress of Chile. Like many of us, he is trying to make sense of what the wave of change in Artificial Intelligence means for education in Chile.
Just some links he shared that reflect his activity
- What You Need to Know About UNESCO’s new AI competency frameworks for students and teachers - we both agreed we need to catch up on these ourselves!
- International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) – under the auspices of UNESCO - Werner is leaving soon for a 3 week visit to Slovenia, part of which is for an AI conference (forgetting which one??), but hoping he might share highlights here
- Leveraging Transformative AI to Support Curriculum Alignment- this blog post from Learning Equality, creators of the Kolibri Offline First system. This is what Werner has been involved with for providing open educational materials to schools in areas of Chile lacking internet, and work Werner has shared here as Offline OER and the Reusability Paradox. Werner described the 3 month process it took a that time to get the Chilean curricular materials in Kolobri that were aligned with the national curriculum. He shared that in experimenting with the new AI approach, the same thing could be done in 10 minutes! We hope to hear more about that too.
- Werner also shared a link to an Interactive Text version of an OER on Citizenship– making splendid use of the Interactive Book content type from H5P. Werner shared as well that he had been testing the Smart Import features from H5P.com for converting content to H5P. This is an amazing resource (someone should have nominated it for an award!)
Werner, I hope I reported these resources correctly! And we look forward to hearing more of your explorations of and finding meaningful use in AI.