Improving skills and competences of VET teachers and trainers in the age of Artificial Intelligence
A Smart Factory model was also built at the TBZ Bremen. The project was implemented in cooperation with the Future Workshop of the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen. Mechatronics trainees took part. The Smart Factory plant The trainees developed a project
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The Taccle AI project sought examples of whether and how AI is used in vocational schools. In Germany, there is a tendency to orientate oneself towards Industry 4.0. AI is usually not taught directly, but dealing with the latest Industry
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The UK based Nesta organisation has published a new report on Artificial Intelligence. “In The Future of Minds and Machines,”they say, “we introduce an emerging framework for thinking about how groups of people interface with AI and map out the different ways that AI can add value to collective human intelligence and vice versa. The framework has, in large part, been developed through analysis of inspiring projects and organisations that are testing out opportunities for combining AI & CI in areas ranging from farming to monitoring human rights […]
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UNESCO have recently published a document on AI and Education aimed as guidance for policy makers. This report discusses the promise of the benefits of AI, which are of course inextricable from AI’s implications and risks. So, first of all, what are the benefits that AI promises according to UNESCO? To begin with, AI technologies are increasingly being used to facilitate the management and delivery of education. Rather than supporting teaching or learning directly, these system-facing applications are designed to automate aspects of school administration, including admissions, timetabling, attendance and homework monitoring, and school inspections. However, it is the use […]
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Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being used for assessment in education. But from a tweet by Ben Williamson – @benpatriickwill – on Twitter: Use of AI for “assessing students” in educational and vocational institutions is on the “high risk” list of this new leaked EU doc.
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