With more than 500 registrants, on Saturday, June 1, the extension course “Tools to Explore Biases and Stereotypes of Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom” (RCD 205/2024 – FAMAF) was launched, organized by the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics, and Computing (FAMAF), the Vía Libre Foundation, and the Ministry of Education of the Province of Córdoba.

Despite being held in the provincial capital, 34.1% of the registered teachers are from outside the provincial capital. Additionally, 55.6% acknowledge that they have never used tools with artificial intelligence.

Opening of the Extension Course

The opening was led by Juan Gabriel Daniel Scarano Tessadri, Director of Technology of the Ministry of Education of the Province of Córdoba, Patricia Silvetti, Dean of FAMAF, and Beatriz Busaniche, President of the Vía Libre Foundation.

After this presentation, Luciana Benotti and Emilia Echeveste started the course. They introduced the teaching team and those who will be responsible for tutoring.

“The topics to be addressed range from practical applications that can facilitate teaching work using AI critically, to interacting with AI technologies without disguises to clearly see the risks,” said Luciana Benotti.

Dialogue Table

The meeting and first class included a Dialogue Table: “Exercising Citizenship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” with experts in the field: Jocelyn Dunstan, Rafael Calvo, Marcos Gómez, Laura Alonso Alemany, and with Beatriz Busaniche, President of Vía Libre, as moderator.

“Artificial Intelligence is an actor that will inevitably enter the classroom, which is why it is so important that this course is developed,” said Rafael Calvo.

With Us

During the course, we will work with #EDIA, a tool created by Vía Libre, which operates in San Francisco, Córdoba, and is mainly developed on open AI models but also compares models from CohereForAI.

🔗 You can learn more about the project by visiting the site https://ia.vialibre.org.ar/

This would not be possible without the support of the Mozilla Foundation and F<A+i>r #Mozilla #Aplusalliance

And the team behind this immense work: Luciana Benotti, Beatriz Busaniche, Laura Alonso Alemany, Emilia Echeveste, Marcos Gómez, Guido Ivetta, Hernán Maina, and Nair Carolina Mazzeo.

Photos: @julito.ph.95 / Fundación Vía Libre
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