Teaching artificial intelligence to a million students

The head of the Organization of Non-Governmental Schools and Centers and the Development of People's Partnerships announced the targeting of artificial intelligence and programming education to more than one million students of non-governmental schools in the current academic year.

According to Ambassador Arjan's report, quoted by the Information and Public Relations Center of the Ministry of Education, Ahmad Mahmoudzadeh, in the closing ceremony of the artificial intelligence training course for intermediate teachers of the country's non-governmental schools in Shiraz, referring to the organization's planning for the development of training related to artificial intelligence in non-governmental schools, stated: In the current academic year, artificial intelligence and programming training is targeted for more than one million students of these schools.

Stating that the realization of this goal requires the empowerment of teachers and the creation of a network of specialist forces in schools, he added: In the first stage, artificial intelligence preliminary trainings were held for a large number of non-governmental school teachers in the country's five educational poles, and some of the teachers continued their empowerment by entering advanced and specialized courses.

Mahmoudzadeh continued: After conducting specialized courses, scientific and practical evaluations and conducting expert interviews, a number of capable teachers were selected as leaders and facilitators of artificial intelligence training to play a role in the transfer of knowledge and development of these trainings among non-government school teachers.

Referring to the approach of the organization in the distribution of educational capacities, the Deputy Minister of Education stated: The share of facilitators in each province is determined based on the number of schools and student population, so that the development of artificial intelligence education is pursued with the approach of educational justice and according to the capacities of different regions of the country.

He also announced the continuation of the non-governmental school teacher empowerment program in the current academic year and said: Considering the presence of more than 280,000 teachers in non-governmental schools, the training of other teachers will also be followed in the form of new courses to provide the necessary ground for the transfer of artificial intelligence concepts and skills to students.

Mahmoudzadeh, emphasizing the need to pay attention to skill training and training of capable human resources, considered the school as the most important platform for the formation of the country's future and noted: the progress of the country depends on the training of a capable, creative generation that has the skills needed in the future, and the more scientific, skill and educational training is strengthened in schools, the more the ground for the development and progress of the country will be provided.

The head of the Organization of Non-Governmental Schools and Centers and Development of People's Partnerships noted: The main goal of this program is that after receiving basic and specialized training, teachers will acquire the ability to transfer the concepts of artificial intelligence to students, and the teaching of this technology will become a continuous and effective process in schools.