Thailand 'AI for Teachers' — Upskilling 160,000 Educators Nationwide
Thailand
Government programme that trained and certified 160,507 Thai educators in ethical AI use, saving 4 hrs/week per teacher, and reaching …
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Free AI-literacy curriculum for students aged 11–14, launched April 2023: 30,000+ educators trained across 180+ countries, reaching an estimated 2.9 million young people; 93% of educators report increased AI knowledge and 89% of students say they better understand AI. UNESCO King
Experience AI, launched in April 2023 by the Raspberry Pi Foundation with Google DeepMind, is a free AI-literacy curriculum for 11-14 year-olds, with lesson plans, classroom activities and educator training in multiple languages.
By 2025, more than 30,000 educators across 180+ countries had completed the training (an estimated 2.9 million young people reached) with 700,000+ resource downloads. Post-programme self-report surveys found 93% of educators said the training increased their AI knowledge and 89% of students said they better understood AI/ML — self-reported figures with no randomised control group. Experience AI was named a 2025 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize laureate.
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Thailand
Government programme that trained and certified 160,507 Thai educators in ethical AI use, saving 4 hrs/week per teacher, and reaching …
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