Tomorrow, Tuesday 26 May, from 2.50 pm to 5.50 pm, the Giuseppe Armellini secondary school in Rome is hosting an in-person training session dedicated to the Experience AI programme, the free course promoted in Italy by the Fondazione Mondo Digitale, a partner of the Raspberry Pi Foundation as part of the programme co-developed with Google DeepMind and funded by Google.org. The aim is to strengthen the skills of teachers and students in artificial intelligence, using practical, inclusive teaching methods geared towards the responsible use of technology.
The three-hour training session is aimed at the school’s teachers and is led by Lara Forgione, a trainer from the Fondazione Mondo Digitale. The session provides an initial framework for understanding what artificial intelligence is, how it works and why AI literacy is now a fundamental skill for teachers.
The course begins with examples closest to everyday experience, from chatbots to generative tools, before moving on to key concepts: the difference between rule-based and data-driven systems, the role of training data, how predictive models work, and the issue of bias, with a focus on the distortions that can arise from both the data and the social contexts in which technologies are developed and used.
Part of the session is dedicated to machine learning, with a focus on the different types of machine learning — supervised, unsupervised and reinforcement learning — and on practical activities to understand the classification process. Through examples and short exercises, teachers explore concepts such as labels, classes, training and decision trees, translating technical elements into accessible teaching tools.
The training also addresses the ethical dimension of AI, with reference to the principles of fairness, accountability, transparency, privacy and security. The guided mini-workshop, in the form of a creathon, invites participants to design prompts and educational activities whilst taking into account risks, biases and the importance of avoiding anthropomorphism, distinguishing artificial intelligence as a tool from the characteristics of human intelligence.
To conclude, teachers are guided through the free resources of Experience AI, available for designing lessons and classroom activities: units on the fundamentals of AI, language models, AI ecosystems and security. The programme provides teaching materials, videos, guides and presentations to support educators’ daily work.
With this new in-person initiative, Experience AI continues to bring practical tools into schools to address artificial intelligence not merely as a technological topic, but as an environment for learning, citizenship and educational responsibility.
