Ben Garside – Noise https://noise.getoto.net The collective thoughts of the interwebz Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:03:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 Raspberry Pi Foundation joins UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition https://noise.getoto.net/2025/04/10/raspberry-pi-foundation-joins-unescos-global-education-coalition/ Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:03:31 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=89785 Introduction We are thrilled to announce that the Raspberry Pi Foundation (RPF) has been accepted as a member of UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition (GEC).  Initiated during the COVID-19 pandemic, when 1.6 billion learners were shut out of the classroom, the GEC aimed to provide continuity of education in times of crisis. Since then, the Coalition…

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]]> UNESCO’s International Day of Education 2025: AI and the future of education https://noise.getoto.net/2025/02/07/unescos-international-day-of-education-2025-ai-and-the-future-of-education/ Fri, 07 Feb 2025 09:03:24 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=89400 Recently, our Chief Learning Officer Rachel Arthur and I had the opportunity to attend UNESCO’s International Day of Education 2025, which focused on the role of education in helping people “understand and steer AI to better ensure that they retain control over this new class of technology and are able to direct it towards desired…

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]]> Exploring how well Experience AI maps to UNESCO’s AI competency framework for students https://noise.getoto.net/2024/11/12/exploring-how-well-experience-ai-maps-to-unescos-ai-competency-framework-for-students/ Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:42:52 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=88868 During this year’s annual Digital Learning Week conference in September, UNESCO launched their AI competency frameworks for students and teachers.  What is the AI competency framework for students?  The UNESCO competency framework for students serves as a guide for education systems across the world to help students develop the necessary skills in AI literacy and…

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]]> Experience AI at UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week https://noise.getoto.net/2024/09/10/experience-ai-at-unescos-digital-learning-week/ Tue, 10 Sep 2024 10:50:43 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=88222 Last week, we were honoured to attend UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week conference to present our free Experience AI resources and how they can help teachers demystify AI for their learners.   The conference drew a worldwide audience in-person and online to hear about the work educators and policy makers are doing to support teachers’ use of…

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]]> Why we’re taking a problem-first approach to the development of AI systems https://noise.getoto.net/2024/08/06/why-were-taking-a-problem-first-approach-to-the-development-of-ai-systems/ Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:02:05 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=87923 If you are into tech, keeping up with the latest updates can be tough, particularly when it comes to artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI (GenAI). Sometimes I admit to feeling this way myself, however, there was one update recently that really caught my attention. OpenAI launched their latest iteration of ChatGPT, this time adding…

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]]> New guide on using generative AI for teachers and schools https://noise.getoto.net/2024/07/19/new-guide-on-using-generative-ai-for-teachers-and-schools/ Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:32:42 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=87834 The world of education is loud with discussions about the uses and risks of generative AI — tools for outputting human-seeming media content such as text, images, audio, and video. In answer, there’s a new practical guide on using generative AI aimed at Computing teachers (and others), written by a group of classroom teachers and…

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]]> Localising AI education: Adapting Experience AI for global impact https://noise.getoto.net/2024/04/09/localising-ai-education-adapting-experience-ai-for-global-impact/ Tue, 09 Apr 2024 08:31:07 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=86765 It’s been almost a year since we launched our first set of Experience AI resources in the UK, and we’re now working with partner organisations to bring AI literacy to teachers and students all over the world. Developed by the Raspberry Pi Foundation and Google DeepMind, Experience AI provides everything that teachers need to confidently…

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]]> Experience AI: Teach about AI, chatbots, and biology https://noise.getoto.net/2023/09/12/experience-ai-teach-about-ai-chatbots-and-biology/ Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:20:27 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=84755 New artificial intelligence (AI) tools have had a profound impact on many areas of our lives in the past twelve months, including on education. Teachers and schools have been exploring how AI tools can transform their work, and how they can teach their learners about this rapidly developing technology. As enabling all schools and teachers…

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]]> How anthropomorphism hinders AI education https://noise.getoto.net/2023/04/13/how-anthropomorphism-hinders-ai-education/ Thu, 13 Apr 2023 14:59:33 +0000 https://www.raspberrypi.org/?p=83648 In the 1950s, Alan Turing explored the central question of artificial intelligence (AI). He thought that the original question, “Can machines think?”, would not provide useful answers because the terms “machine” and “think” are hard to define. Instead, he proposed changing the question to something more provable: “Can a computer imitate intelligent behaviour well enough…

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