{"id":205317,"date":"2025-02-03T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/from-chalkboards-to-chatbots-transforming-learning-in-nigeria-one-prompt-at-a-time"},"modified":"2025-02-03T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T14:30:36","slug":"from-chalkboards-to-chatbots-transforming-learning-in-nigeria-one-prompt-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/from-chalkboards-to-chatbots-transforming-learning-in-nigeria-one-prompt-at-a-time","title":{"rendered":"From chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria, one prompt at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/from-chalkboards-to-chatbots-transforming-learning-in-nigeria-one-prompt-at-a-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Students participate in an AI after-school program in Edo, Nigeria. Copyright: SmartEdge\/World Bank<\/i><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI helps us to learn, it can serve as a tutor, it can be anything you want it to be, depending on the prompt you write,\u201d says Omorogbe Uyiosa, known as \u201cUyi\u201d by his friends, a student from the Edo Boys High School, in Benin City, Nigeria. His school was one of the beneficiaries of a pilot that used generative artificial intelligence (AI) to support learning through an after-school program.<\/p>\n<p>A few months ago, we wrote <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.worldbank.org\/en\/education\/From-chalkboards-to-chatbots-in-Nigeria\">a blog<\/a> with some of the lessons from the implementation of this innovative program, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WorldBankAfrica\/videos\/534239749160343\/?ref=embed_video&t=100\">a video<\/a> with voices from beneficiaries, such as Uyi. Back then, we promised that, if you stayed tuned, we would get back with the results of the pilot, which included an impact evaluation. So here we are with three primary findings from the pilot!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students participate in an AI after-school program in Edo, Nigeria. Copyright: SmartEdge\/World Bank \u201cAI helps us to learn, it can serve as a tutor, it can be anything you want it to be, depending on the prompt you write,\u201d says Omorogbe Uyiosa, known as \u201cUyi\u201d by his friends, a student from the Edo Boys High [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}