AI education in Finland: Enhancing children’s understanding, critical thinking and creativity through collaborative designing of AI apps
Children and young people’s understanding of artificial intelligence and AI technologies improved when the basics of AI were taught in school through hands-on activities supported by new educational technology, a recent study among more than 200 Finnish 4[th] and 7[th] graders shows. The study explored how children’s understanding and explanations of AI evolved as they engaged in collaborative designing of AI apps and explored the impact and ethics of AI. AI technologies are an integral part of our daily lives, even if we don’t notice their existence. For instance, AI algorithms give us