The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced a significant expansion of its
Experience AI programme across Latin America, supported by $4.6 million in
funding from Google.org. This major initiative is set to strengthen AI
education in Latin America, with plans to train 24,000 educators and reach 1.25
million students by 2028.
The move reflects the growing importance of digital literacy and
artificial intelligence skills in modern education systems. As AI continues to
influence industries, communication, and daily life, schools across the region
are being equipped to prepare students for an increasingly technology-driven
future.
The programme shall be implemented in Argentina, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay.
This proliferation of AI education in Latin America will be provided by
a network of local education partners via a train-the-trainer model. In this
strategy, educators and education leaders will be trained as specialists and
later transfer the same information to schools and children in their respective
communities.
The given scalable model should also help to expedite the process of
implementing AI literacy in urban and rural schools and colleges and provide
the programme with a wide and diverse range of students.
A central goal of the initiative is to improve AI education in Latin
America by helping students understand how artificial intelligence works in
practical settings.
The Experience AI programme, developed in collaboration with Google
DeepMind, offers free classroom resources, including lesson plans, teaching
guides, and hands-on activities.
Students will learn core AI concepts such as:
In addition to technical understanding, the programme also emphasizes
critical thinking and ethical awareness, encouraging students to examine the
societal impact of AI technologies.
The practical approach to learning is one of the most important things
about the programme.
AI education in Latin America will also entail new opportunities
through which students will be able to develop their own simple AI
applications. This practical learning is set to go beyond the theory and ensure
that young learners are able to acquire practical digital skills.
The initiative will equip the students with the skills of confidence and
creativity to become active participants in the AI ecosystem instead of mere
consumers of technology by introducing project-based learning.
Such a strategy is consistent with the vision of the Foundation,
according to which students should not only have access to AI tools but also
know how to use them.
This initiative is anchored on teacher training.
The Foundation plans to train 24,000 educators in order to establish a
long-term AI education framework in Latin America.
The teachers will be provided with access to the high-quality teaching
resources that can be modified in various subjects and learning environments.
This makes sure that AI concepts can be incorporated in science, technology,
and even in the general classroom discourse of ethics and society.
This emphasis on teachers will have a long-lasting effect long after the
first implementation phase.
The Experience AI programme already enjoys a good international
presence.
It has reached out to 2.9 million youths in the world, trained 30,000
educators, and is used today in over 180 countries in 19 languages.
This effective base gives AI education in Latin America a very powerful
propelling force as the future skills remain in high demand.
The fact that the programme was named one of the laureates of the UNESCO
King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize of the Use of ICT in Education is yet
another confirmation of its credibility and importance to education.
With AI redefining the future of work and learning, this growth may be a
breakthrough move towards equipping Latin America with its next generation to
be digitally empowered.
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