GREEN LEARNING aims to bring students and teachers closer to Artificial Intelligence through innovative educational workshops, which make use of new technologies and performing arts, to stimulate new awareness to climate change.
Dance and Artificial intelligence at school
The artist Masako Matsushita, collaborating with Creative Technologist Andrea Zaninello and Adriano Mancini, researcher at the Università Politecnica delle Marche, developed a collaborative workshop experimenting creative thinking on Artificial Intelligence.
The result is an Artificial Intelligence model capable of interacting with artistic dance practice by reprocessing data provided by Italia che cambia database. It contains more than 100 video interviews that the newspaper produced in ten years travelling across the country to cover stories of change. The performance has been presented in schools in Bassano del Grappa and Ancona to run workshop with students for increasing their knowledge on AI tools.
AI tools and journalists to empower teenagers
The project combines performance practice with the experimentation of a pilot teaching activity, which responds to the need to include new technologies in educational experiences. In particular, the project uses artificial intelligence to make learning a more interesting and engaging experience.
Two workshops, addressed to students from the project’s partner schools in Ancona and Bassano del Grappa, will focus on environmental sustainability and the possibility of narrating new positive experiences. The challenge will be to transform the sometimes catastrophic view of climate change into a key that enables young people to perceive themselves as active participants in a change that is already taking place.
A chatbot to browse stories of change
The final result, in collaboration with the Marche Polytechnic University, is an artificial intelligence tool (a content filtering software called recommender system) capable of guiding the user to discover new sustainability stories. Starting from these motivations, people participating in the training course explore sustainability stories and produce new stories on Italian good practices, which will continue to feed the Italia che cambia website.
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Credits
GREEN LEARNING is a project of Sineglossa, carried out with the support of Fondazione Cariverona, with the support of Municipality of Bassano del Grappa, by Italia che cambia and of the UNIVPM Polytechnic University of Marche. Two schools in Bassano del Grappa (Highter Education Institute G. B. Brocchi and Higher Education Institute A. Scotton) and two schools in Ancona (Highter Education Institute L. Cambi – D. Serrani and Higher Education institute Savoia Benincasa) are partners in the project.
