Introducing K-12 Students to AI: Lessons from Guatemala

On our last episode, World Bank Senior Education and Technology Specialist Cristobal Cobo spoke with the Director of the MIT-wide Initiative on Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (raise.mit.edu), Cynthia Breazeal, about RAISE and its Day of AI (https://www.dayofai.org), 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. 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.