MIT RAISE

🌟 Big week here at #MIT with the inaugural MIT #AI + #Education Summit! 🌟 It was an absolute joy to connect with new people, reunite with friends, and learn from the brightest minds in AI and education worldwide. The shared optimism and innovative spirit in the room were truly inspiring! 💡 Massachusetts is making significant strides in AI-related economic development, as Yvonne Hao shared, giving me tremendous hope for the future. 🎓 Bo and Lewis provided valuable insights into how LEGO Education The LEGO Foundation and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation approach AI in education as an incredible opportunity for impact, particularly around creativity, math, and AI-powered tutoring. 🌏 The impact of the CoolThink initiative in Hong Kong was incredibly encouraging. Amazing work by Paul and his team at the The Hong Kong Jockey Club, the The Education University of Hong Kong, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology + #AppInventor is certainly a crucial piece in the recipe for success. 📽️ Seeing our students from New England Innovation Academy featured on the big screen in front of 400 participants during the opening keynote was surreal! Francisco and I took so many notes - as we prepare future inventors and entrepreneurs, AI will be a crucial piece that we will pioneer. 👨👩👦👦 My sons joined me for the pitches by App Inventor Foundation's global competition. They were jumping up and down with excitement when the judges announced the "Best Design" award went to the LuoDong middle school team from our hometown, Taiwan! Thanks to Ting-Chia(Ching-Kun) Hsu for making this possible. What a week - so much to digest and so much to look forward to inventing! The future is bright! 🚀✨ Congratulations again to the MIT RAISE team, Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Hal Abelson, and Eric Klopfer on the successful inaugural MIT AI & Education Summit!

To pointer fra Danmark om AI i undervisningen til de 400 deltagere på MIT RAISE Summit i Boston. Play@Heart var særligt indbudt til at præsentere et dansk perspektiv på AI i et grundskoleperspektiv på MIT RAISE Summit i Boston. Vores workshop blev godt modtaget. Deltagerne prøvede kræfter med SkoleGPT og hørte om AI og prøveformer. Her var vores første pointe: - at sprogmodeller skal være sikre, transparente og brugervenlige med stort fokus på GDPR og datasikkerhed, hvis de skal bruges i undervisningen. Anden pointe var: - at undervisning i, om og med AI kræver nye pædagogiske og didaktiske greb samt stærke overvejelser om nytænkning af prøve- og eksamensformer. Og det hele blev naturligvis gjort på bedste legende manér med GPT-prompting af robotter, gåder og musikproduktion. Nu skal de mange indtryk lige vendes og der skal følges op på de mange nye kontakter fra konferencen. Tak for den store indsats Mikkel Aslak, Martin Exner og Andreas Binggeli og særlig tak til vores samarbejdspartnere i Boston. Vi fik vist det danske AI-flag og sat en masse skibe i søen til fremtidige samarbejder. Huge kudos to Rupa Laxmi Shah for organizing and helping! #playatheart #mitraise #skolegpt The LEGO Foundation #playfullearningdk

This week, I had the incredible opportunity to attend all three days of the MIT RAISE #AIEDUSUMMIT2024. The event was packed with discussions on the commercial educational capabilities of Artificial Intelligence and its impact on young people's future careers. AI Literacy, or #AIFluency, was a central theme throughout the summit, and a key takeaway. This was best summarized in the AI and Education Leaders Panel: "AI and education are here to stay. We need to teach students to be responsible users...AI will create new job opportunities, and we must prepare the students of tomorrow to fill these roles." By focusing on educating for AI fluency in K-12 education, we can ensure young people are ready for the future job market, even as technologies continue to rapidly evolve around them. #AIEducation #FutureOfWork #AIFluency #DigitalWellnessLab #MITRAISE #AIEDUSUMMIT2024

Exciting news, LinkedIn community! Our AI Responsible Use Plan (AIRUP) is now available, and it is just in time for the new school year. I'm deeply grateful to our outstanding APS AI Advisory Committee, Carrie Giltner, Efren Ortiz, Serena Taylor, Dusty Burton, Johnnie Lacey, and Natasha Kellogg, for their dedication to refining this document. As the facilitator of this process, I'm thrilled to announce that we're expanding our AI learning ecosystem this year. More updates are coming soon! AIRUP and our PICA framework have already been adopted or adapted by several districts nationwide. If you choose to implement them, please credit and tag us. These tools were built from the ground up with our stakeholders to ensure AI's safe and ethical use in education. I'm writing this from Cambridge, MA, after attending the MIT RAISE AI and Education Summit. Once again, I'm inspired by a community leveraging technology to tackle complex problems. As Ethan Mollick aptly describes, the 'Co-Intelligence' model drives this progress, not technology alone. Meeting university students nationwide who are committed to using AI for Good has reinforced my belief: our 38,000 APS students, and students everywhere, deserve the opportunity to develop these crucial skills and insights. Let's dream big together. Vamos! AV #AIinEducation #AIRUP #EthicalAI

I started the last day of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology AI and Education Summit with an inspiring presentation of FutureMakers powered by MIT RAISE. Dedicated to high school students across the USA, the program provides mentorship and guidance to enable them to unleash AI potential to find solutions to the problems in their communities. Jeff Freilich, it was a privilege to meet you and learn about this incredible learning experience you are curating for the kids. We are feeling encouraged in our endeavours in Romania through the UiPath Foundation initiatives to support young minds from underserved communities to build their sense of possibility around AI and emerging technologies and to harness their power for a better future.

🌟 Excited to attend the MIT RAISE Summit! 🌟 MIT RAISE At PwC’s Acceleration Center in Mexico, we're committed to leveraging AI to drive upskilling, reskilling, and continuous learning for our talent. In today's fast-paced world, AI is pivotal in ensuring our workforce remains agile and future-ready. #MITRAISE #AI #Upskilling #Reskilling #ContinuousLearning #PwC

What happens when you get 400 global innovators in a ballroom in Boston? They share best practice that will change the world. This week I met some amazing people and shared some amazing use cases of how AI is changing the world at the first ever MIT RAISE AI x Edu summit in Boston. A huge thanks to some of the massively inspirational people I met such as Francesca Lazzeri, Ph.D. Mikel Amigot Joseph Wehbe Axel Reitzig Tom Berry and many many more. I cannot wait to work with you all to change the world and embed some of this amazing innovation in my country. #MIT #AI #summit #GenAI #innovate #tech #bigdata #EDU #highered #boston #education

Congratulations to my son Sai Pranav Gandhi and his partner Viraj Marathe for remarkable achievement of presenting Allergy Allay at the prestigious MIT AI + Edu Summit in Boston! Their dedication and innovative spirit have clearly shone through, earning them a spot among the winning project presentations. The experience of interacting with visionaries like Hal Abelson, the founder of MIT App Inventor, has been truly inspiring. The MIT RAISE conference has undoubtedly provided an invaluable platform for these young innovators to showcase their talent, network with experts, and gain insights into the cutting-edge world of AI and education. Their journey exemplifies the immense potential and creativity of Indian students on the global stage.Team Legogoa lauds their accomplishments and look forward to witnessing their continued success in the field of technology. This #IndianInnovation uses #AIinHealthcare to empower #allergy sufferers. #HealthTech #StudentEntrepreneurs #MIT #AppInventor #aiedusummit2024 MIT App Inventor

Today is day three of the AI + Education Summit! If you're here with us, take some time to read about research on GenAI in education from MIT! https://lnkd.in/eFi7_sNN

The results are in for the MIT App Inventor Competition Track at the MIT AI & Education Summit! The winners of App Inventor hackathons across the globe presented their projects at the conference this evening to vie for the top spots. Congratulations to the three winning projects! 🎊 💡 Creative Innovation Prize: Landslide Detection and Prevention System by Felipe Ferraz, Henrique Ambrogi, and João Vitor Battiferro (Brazil) ✨ Best Design Prize: No Waste by Keng-Jui Lin, Yu-Hao Lin, Shih-Chen Yang, and Shih-Ting Yang (Taiwan) 🤝🏼 Community Impact Prize: VIPMOD (Vision Impaired Person’s Moving Object Detector) by Maura Moore-McCune (Ireland)