A few months have passed since the signing of the memorandum of understanding that saw the Ammagamma and theIstituto Comprensivo 3 of Modena "Mattarella" give birth to LUCYthe first experimental artificial intelligence school for secondary schools.
Given the success of this first experience, which was positive in all respects for the more than one hundred students who took part, Ammagamma and Istituto Mattarella have decided to launch the next phase of the project. The aim is to educate adults as well to understand and use AI data and technologies in a conscious and responsible way, i.e. to train first-cycle teachers (primary and secondary schools) of other schools in Italy, so that they can replicate Lucy's educational programme and lay the foundations to create a community on good practice in AI education.
"With the Lucy project we have created the first curricular experiment in artificial intelligence teaching for secondary schools, dedicated not only to students but also to teachers," commented Daniele Barca, Headmaster ofIC3 Mattarella in Modena. "This one-year experience, carried out for the third grade students of IC3 Modena, has led us to build a multidisciplinary and laboratory course aimed at discovering the mechanisms of AI functioning and imagining the implications and new uses of intelligent technologies".
Educating about artificial intelligence does not only mean becoming aware of what 'intelligent' tools are, but also, and above all, it means understanding how they work in order to scale down the 'magical' perception and dystopian vision of what its impact might be in the future.
"Educating to think is a real didactic format that we have designed to respond to the theme of the critical approach to digital and is based on the concepts expressed in the white paper on the didactics of artificial intelligence "De Arte Intelligendi", drafted and promoted by Amm agamma," added Pietro Monari, head of Education projects at Ammagamma. "A multidisciplinary approach is needed to fully understand AI. This is the ambition of our school and the educational vision of Ammagamma."
The course, which will take place between the Comprehensive Institute and the Ursuline nuns' convent where Ammagamma is based, will take participants on a journey through the technological evolution of artificial intelligence and Modena's cultural history, through workshops linking history, literature, magic and imagination with IT, robotics, nature and mathematics.
The course is accredited by S.O.F.I.A., with the code 60473, will give the right to training credits and will be held at the future lab spazio Leo of IC3 in Modena (Scuola medie Mattarella, Viale Piersanti Mattarella, 145).
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