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The odyssey foundation has trained teachers in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja on the use of Artificial intelligence tools to enhance their teaching skills while building stability and resilience in their work.

The foundation stated that the software introduced to the teachers will teaching and writing lesson notes more easier for them either in hard copy or soft copy format.

Tech women alumni and Founder Odyssey foundation Stella Dennis, while speaking at the training for over 30 teachers in the FCT stated that AI training, is an all inclusive training emphasizing that teaching is not just coming and writing on the board, but about mentoring, understanding the children, looking at
their temperament and a host of others.

“Talking about the use of AI is quite interesting. When you look at the population of students in schools today, I think you just reminded private schools as an opportunity.

“The path of AI we talk today is how a teacher can prepare his lesson notes in one second. And not for you to think or take two hours while you’re trying
to write a lesson note.

She noted that the efficiency of the AI tools is apt as teachers while engaging in social media activities can also get information on the Al teaching tools, save them and use it in the classroom as teaching aid for the students.

One of the beneficiaries of the training, a teacher from Government Day Secondary School (GDSS), Mrs Lawal Bimbo expressed delight on the new teaching aid using AI tool adding that they have seen a very simplified way to enhance their teaching skills.

“I’ve learned a lot. We started with 3D
modeling. And we’re told even how to model, how to be able to create models, to be able to make
our class physical for our children to touch, feel, and whatever we are teaching them.
You know, we still have a long way to go in getting these three modelings to work.

“We’re having the AI training, telling us what’s our
GPT. We learned Microsoft. A lot of apps we’ve downloaded today. And even how to write our lesson plans, which is the most difficult part for every teacher, writing lesson plans.”

Meanwhile, Mrs Lawal noted that teachers should be up and doing while sacrificing their time and data to engage more on AI teaching tools instead of waiting for school authority or government to assist them.

“We have even got to know that
while we are doing this, we can also showcase whatever we’re doing, which can in turn
come as reward for us. So we have to sacrifice first, the school management itself, because when you wait for governments to do everything, then nothing is done.

“So, example, using the AI to teach and all of that, is what a teacher can sacrifice. We us a lot of data on social medias, Instagram. We can also use part of this data to make our lesson notes, to be able to teach our students well and for them to understand well.”