Headline, January 25 2025/ LEAP : ''' TEACHERS STUDENTS TELEPATHY ''''

LEAP : 

''' TEACHERS STUDENTS

 TELEPATHY '''

! FIRST AND FOREMOST ! : THE GLOBAL FOUNDER FRAMERS of !WOW! welcome the Students, Professors, Teachers and Parents of Estonia and Iceland and convey to them our blessed good wishes.

THE BALTIC NATION OF ESTONIA has beautifully figured a unique approach - with a broad new national Artificial Intelligence  initiative called : '' A.I. LEAP. ''

The program was prepared partly by a recent poll showing that more than 90 percent of the nation's high schoolers were already using  popular chatbots like ChatGPT for schoolwork, leading to worries that some students were beginning to delegate school assignments to A.I.

ESTONIA then pressed U.S. tech giants to adapt  their A.I. to local educational needs and priorities. Researchers at the University of Tartu worked with OpenAI to modify the company's  Estonian-language service for schools so it would respond to students' queries with questions rather than produce direct answers.

Introduced this school year, the '' A.I. Leap ''  program aims to teach educators and students about the uses, limits, biases and risks of A.I. tools. In its pilot phase, teachers and students in Estonia received training on OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini chatbots.

'' It's critical A.I. literacy,'' said Ivo Visak, the chief executive of the A.I. Leap Foundation, the Estonian nonprofit organisation that is helping to manage the national education program.

'' It's having a very clear understanding that these tools can be useful - but at the same time these tools can do a lot of harm.''

Estonia also recently held a national training day for students at some high schools. Some of those students are now using the bots for tasks like generating questions to help them prepare for school tests, Mr. Visak said.

'' If these companies would put their effort not only in pushing A.I. products, but also doing the products together with the educational systems of the world, then some of these products could be really useful,'' Mr. Visak added.

This school year, Iceland started its own national A.I. pilot in schools. Now, several hundred teachers across the country are experimenting with Google's Gemini chatbot or Anthropic's Claude for tasks like lesson planning, as they aim to find helpful uses and to pinpoint drawbacks.

Researchers at the University of Iceland will then study how educators used the chatbots.

Students won't use the chatbots for now, partly out of concerns that relying on classroom bots would diminish important elements of teaching and learning.

''If you're using less of your brain power or critical thinking - or whatever makes us more human - it is definitely not what we want ,'' said Thordis Sigurdardottir, the director of Iceland's Directorate of School Education and School Services.

Tinna Arnardottir and Frida Gylfadottir, two teachers participating in the pilot at a high school outside Reykjavik, say the A.I. tools have helped them create engaging lessons more quickly.

Ms. Arnardottir, a business and entrepreneurship teacher, recently used  Claude to make a career exploration game to help her students figure out whether they were more suited to jobs in sales, marketing or management.

Ms. Gylfadottir, who teaches English, said she had uploaded some vocabulary lists and then used the chatbot to help create exercises for her students.

''I have fill-in-the-blank word games and speed challenge games,'' Ms. Gylfadottir said.

Ms. Gylfadottir added that she was concerned about chatbots producing misinformation, so she vetted the A.I. created games and lessons for accuracy before asking her students to try them.

Ms. Gylfadottir and Ms. Arnardottir said they also worried that some students might already be growing dependent on - or overly trusting of - AI tools outside the school.

The Honour and Serving of the Latest Global Operational Research on AI Schools, Students, and Forward Integration, continues. The World Students Society thanks Natasha Singer.

With most respectful dedication to the Global Founder Framers of The World Students Society, Leaders, Parents, and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

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