Session
Subtheme
Organizer 1: Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 1: Amrita Choudhury, Civil Society, Asia-Pacific Group
Speaker 2: Eyob Esatu, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 3: Saba Tiku Beyene, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 2: Eyob Esatu, Civil Society, African Group
Speaker 3: Saba Tiku Beyene, Technical Community, African Group
Format
Classroom
Duration (minutes): 30
Format description: Well-designed classrooms promote positive learning environments. Classroom learning fosters face-to-face interaction, immediate feedback, dynamic discussions, and a sense of community, promoting social interaction, collaboration, and teamwork skills essential for personal and professional growth. This format is preferred over other forms because, the research out put is more of policy advocacy oriented so that enable more participants and would ignite attendees with a kind of lighting talk presentation to immerse the participants. Further, the intended outcome being the policy transformation of fragile states education, this format shall increase the uptake of the theme into future policy debates and trigger wider dialogues among multi-directorial stakeholders in education development innovations in conflict fragile states.
Duration (minutes): 30
Format description: Well-designed classrooms promote positive learning environments. Classroom learning fosters face-to-face interaction, immediate feedback, dynamic discussions, and a sense of community, promoting social interaction, collaboration, and teamwork skills essential for personal and professional growth. This format is preferred over other forms because, the research out put is more of policy advocacy oriented so that enable more participants and would ignite attendees with a kind of lighting talk presentation to immerse the participants. Further, the intended outcome being the policy transformation of fragile states education, this format shall increase the uptake of the theme into future policy debates and trigger wider dialogues among multi-directorial stakeholders in education development innovations in conflict fragile states.
Policy Question(s)
This session responds to three policy questions. These key questions include:
A. How are national and international laws applied in the ethical utilization of AI Innovation Transform Education in Fragile States?
B. How National Partnership in sector development can efficiently support digital transformation in conflict fragile states?
C.What roles can AI Innovation play in tackling sustainability through Digital Collaboration to realize national and regional digital sovereignty in education transformation in Africa?
What will participants gain from attending this session? AI can provide feedback on student learning activities and practice questions, provide recommendations for material that needs to be re-studied like a teacher. This session shall enlighten participants and attendees of the session with skill and policy insights on possibilities and opportunities AI innovations provide in transforming education quality and student -centered learning in fragile states in developing countries. Further, the session shall ignite the creativity mind set of AI professions to look into better AI solutions innovations as learning experiences stimulating expertise in education sector development. More importantly, fragile state participants and digital education professionals shall acquaint themselves with adequate learning experience, meaningful partnership approaches of private and public sector and design methodologies in the field of generative AI application for transforming education in conflict settings and fragile states .
Description:
Learning Poverty’(the inability to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10) had estimated to be 48% of children worldwide and 87 % of children in sub-Saharan Africa are ‘learning poor’ (WB, 2019). Generative AI utilization through strategic public-private partnership can reduce education costs radically while improving the quality of teaching-learning outcomes and thus contributing to the education transformation in Africa.AI tech enabled universal access of this AI generative education program is its implementation by strategic partnership of the government of Oromia Regional Education Bureau and Ethiotelecom which is the largest TeleCloud innovation technology provider in Ethiopia. The government partner only cover the Cloud Service cost and operation cost of the technology delivery has significantly minimized education costs while increasing efficiency, quality, equity and access to education. Artificial intelligence (AI) can support learner–centric education of Africa by automating curriculum and courses, freeing teachers to focus more on teaching and personalized interactions with students, enhancing rather than replacing human-led teaching. Adaptive learning platforms, intelligent tutoring systems, and data-driven insights have been utilized as key components of this transformative approach. The impact of this project is AI innovation education reduced the cost for reconstructing war ruined school infrastructures and now supporting 82 girls’ boarding schools and 13 TVETS in 6 conflict prone zones of Oromia regions of Ethiopia supporting 930,000 conflict affected students who swapped to drop out due to conflicts. AI applications in education must be designed collaboratively and with equity in focus, addressing disparities across various demographics and ensuring accessibility for all students. Beyond using AI tools for educational purposes, it is crucial to educate students about AI itself how to develop AI technologies and understand potential risks. This best practice is being replicated to other armed conflict fragile countries of DRC and Sudan in Africa.
Learning Poverty’(the inability to read and understand a simple text by the age of 10) had estimated to be 48% of children worldwide and 87 % of children in sub-Saharan Africa are ‘learning poor’ (WB, 2019). Generative AI utilization through strategic public-private partnership can reduce education costs radically while improving the quality of teaching-learning outcomes and thus contributing to the education transformation in Africa.AI tech enabled universal access of this AI generative education program is its implementation by strategic partnership of the government of Oromia Regional Education Bureau and Ethiotelecom which is the largest TeleCloud innovation technology provider in Ethiopia. The government partner only cover the Cloud Service cost and operation cost of the technology delivery has significantly minimized education costs while increasing efficiency, quality, equity and access to education. Artificial intelligence (AI) can support learner–centric education of Africa by automating curriculum and courses, freeing teachers to focus more on teaching and personalized interactions with students, enhancing rather than replacing human-led teaching. Adaptive learning platforms, intelligent tutoring systems, and data-driven insights have been utilized as key components of this transformative approach. The impact of this project is AI innovation education reduced the cost for reconstructing war ruined school infrastructures and now supporting 82 girls’ boarding schools and 13 TVETS in 6 conflict prone zones of Oromia regions of Ethiopia supporting 930,000 conflict affected students who swapped to drop out due to conflicts. AI applications in education must be designed collaboratively and with equity in focus, addressing disparities across various demographics and ensuring accessibility for all students. Beyond using AI tools for educational purposes, it is crucial to educate students about AI itself how to develop AI technologies and understand potential risks. This best practice is being replicated to other armed conflict fragile countries of DRC and Sudan in Africa.
Expected Outcomes
This session shall contribute significantly on the emerging knowledge of generative AI utilization for development improving the coding skills and prototyping capability of ICT professionals and education innovators. More importantly, the session shall stimulate education policy to make it more innovative to address societal problems in emergency and conflict settings while saving the national treasure in investing in education in a more efficient way. The session shall add on the current ongoing AI policy dialogues in ethical use of AI technologies in ethical development spheres in the manner it increases trust, reduce risks and promote student centered technology ramification efforts. The session shall provide a learing in fora for the conflict fragile states to adapt best practices in education that can swap drop out of students in conflict settings so as to countries meet the SDG 2030 Goal 4 and the AU Agenda 2063.
Hybrid Format: To facilitate interaction between onsite and online speakers and attendees, use interactive tools like polls, Q&A sessions, and live chats, ensuring both groups can participate equally and engage with the content shall be implemented carefully designed. Pre-designed power point presentations shared with both participants online and onsite so as to be able to network with other participants for more interactions between visitors, partners, speakers, and attendees. The online and onsite moderators shall be assigned to lead the session more successfully using online gadgets and onsite facilitators. We plan to use zoom link to reach more online participants.