Introducing K-12 Students to AI: Lessons from Guatemala

<p>On our last episode, World Bank Senior Education and Technology Specialist <a href="https://mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms/certificate-checker?login=false&amp;originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fblogs.worldbank.org.mcas.ms%2Fteam%2Fcristobal-cobo%3FMcasTsid%3D20893&amp;McasCSRF=2719f0a6cc4b70f7fbf488ceb1e36aa4a40cf47b427f429a72c35574df694433">Cristobal Cobo</a>&nbsp;spoke with&nbsp;the&nbsp;Director of the MIT-wide Initiative on Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (raise.mit.edu),&nbsp;Cynthia Breazeal, about RAISE and its Day of AI (<a href="https://mcas-proxyweb.mcas.ms/certificate-checker?login=false&amp;originalUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dayofai.org.mcas.ms%2F%3FMcasTsid%3D20893&amp;McasCSRF=2719f0a6cc4b70f7fbf488ceb1e36aa4a40cf47b427f429a72c35574df694433">https://www.dayofai.org</a>), which seeks to engage K-12 students in a series of freely available hands-on activities designed to introduce them to AI and how it plays a part of their lives today.</p> <p>This week, Cristobal Cobo speaks with Day of AI participant Betzabé Orenos about her experience introducing students to AI in Guatemala. Betzabé is a Google for Education-certified trainer and coach https://geg.gt/index.html and teaches innovation to high schoolers in Guatemala.</p>