Amazon changed how people act, revolutionized cloud computing and developed popular technologies like Alexa. The company is now bringing its innovation and expertise in vocal -activated artificial intelligence to education.
Take the Alexa Skills Inventor program. The program, which focuses on science, technology, technology and math (STEM), uses Alexa to help students learn about AI. Available via Mits App Inventor, an open source platform for programming smartphone and tablet apps, Alexa Skills Inventor provides students to create their own Alexa applications to help solve math problems or perform tasks such as generating random facts about geology when asked.
By providing a program that encourages creativity and critical thinking, Alexa Skills Inventor is intended to equip a new generation with the technological skills it needs to help shape its future.
“Alexa Skills Inventor lets the students code their own Alexa skills,” said Rohit Prasad, Alexa Senior Vice President and Head Scientist, in opening the note on the day of AI event sponsored by MIT’s Raise (AI for Social Empowerment and Education) Program on 18. ” how to program it. ”
Block -coding conversion text -based code for visual “blocks” that can be drawn and fall to create computer programs.
The day of AI marked the official launch of the Alexa Skills Inventor program. According to Paul Stubbs, the main technical evangelist for Alexa, the skills Inventor program is a significant development in AI education -not least because of its easy access. “Students in the United States who are 14 years old or older can sign up and teachers can deliver it at any time as part of their curricula,” says Stubbs.
Students do not need to provide personal information such as names, addresses or emails to participate and no Amazon device is required. Instead, teachers create an accountant and use randomly generated login so students can code with Alexa in their Internet browsers, an approach that promotes an inclusive and supportive environment that encourages creativity and exploration.
The program is a product of Amazon Future Engineer, Amazon’s Global Philanthropic Education Initiative that gives young people access to computer science learning opportunities. Prasad said it emphasizes Amazon’s commitment “to help educate the next generation of Stem leaders through fun, practical experience.”
In the long run
To elaborate on the impact of the skills Inventor program, Amazon Future Engineer emphasizes Vote Events such as Day of AI and signs the efforts to bring the program to students from underrated and historically underrepreprepreprepreed communities.
My Rays’s Day of AI programming helped introduce Alexa Skills Inventor to thousands of teachers and tens of thousands of students across the globe. Amazon’s contribution also included a $ 25,000 donation to Boston Public Schools to support and encourage AI training initiatives to their students.
The persecution of Inclussivesess supports a Broadian goal Amazon Future Engineer has considered Alexa Skills Inventor, says Victor Reinoso, Global Director of Education Philanthropy at Amazon.
“Computer Science is a rewarding career, but computer science reading skills and basic coding skills will benefit any young person who wants to have an impact in the future look out of their career path,” Reinoso said. “Amazon Future Engineer’s mission emphasizes Amazon’s obligation to make our customers’ lives better – and in the long run.”
In the classroom
A number of students started using the Alexa Skills Inventor program in soft launch late last year. “This program has made me think more about which majors I want to choose,” said a Mississippi student with High Schoon. “I was thinking about making technique, but you know, this computer science and tech part, I’m more in it!”
Fresh from introductory sessions last fall, teachers, we are just as passionate about integrating Alexa Skills Inventor with their lesson plans-one initiative that is related to Stude-Buy-In.
Rebecca Calvert from Algan Michigan said her students described the experience as “an explosion” from start to finish. Kathryn Perry, a teacher at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake High School in New York, said her students grabbed Alexa Skills Inventor after preparatory sessions to lead innovations of their own “Similar number-Guyguer games and jokes.”
This is encouraging response to the program. The program is born of collaboration and rooted in justice and strengthens students while strengthening the concept that inclusive education and technology together can help shape a better future.