About
“Dear Future” Dream, Engage, Act and Re-act 4 the Future, co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme of the European Union, KA202 – Strategic Partnerships in school education.
The project aims at fostering AI education in preschool education to improve our students, teachers, educators, and skills in preparing them for the future. In doing so, “Dear Future” will create a novel, digital and inclusive digital education package for the pre-school teachers, students and schools to develop a high-quality early childhood education and care system in AI education. Parallel to this, the project will educate pre-school teachers, school leaders, and other teaching professions on how to demonstrate and engage kids in AI.
Duration: 01/03/2022 – 31/12/2024
Project ID: 2021-2-PL01-KA220-SCH-000048581
General objectives:
1.To create, test and pilot a digital and innovative education package in pre-school education in teaching and learning artificial intelligence through a game-based interactive storytelling approach;
2.To educate and strengthen the profiles of pre-primary school teachers on how to teach AI through an innovative approach ‘’Teach AI through game-based interactive storytelling’’;
3.To teach pre-school children (3-6 years old) how to understand AI through an innovative approach ‘’Learn AI through game-based interactive storytelling”;
4.To cooperate with international actors to build the capacities of the participating organizations in the field of AI to promote artificial intelligence in pre-school education across the partner countries through an innovative approach;
5.To raise awareness of the importance of AI in early childhood education;
6.To cooperate and network with associations representing pre-schools, education entities, universities’ pre-school and pedagogy departments, and NGOs linked to pre-school education to create a more modern, dynamic, commitment, future-related AI education.3
Target groups:
- Pre-school teachers;
- Pre-school kids (3-6 years old)
- Policy makers, curricula developers, IT professionals and educators
- Parents of the pre-schools teachers
