Martín De Simone
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Martín De Simone
@desimonemartin.bsky.social
De 🇦🇷. Especialista en Educación del Banco Mundial. Ma. en Políticas Públicas de Princeton.
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They used Microsoft Copilot and teachers provided guidance and initial prompts. No working paper yet, but the results and experiment are written up here: blogs.worldbank.org/en/education...
From chalkboards to chatbots: Transforming learning in Nigeria, one prompt at a time
"AI 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," says Omorogbe Uyiosa, known as "Uyi" by his friends, a student from the Edo Bo...
blogs.worldbank.org
January 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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New randomized, controlled trial by the World Bank of students using GPT-4 as a tutor in Nigeria. Six weeks of after-school AI tutoring = 2 years of typical learning gains, outperforming 80% of other educational interventions.

And it helped all students, especially girls who were initially behind.
January 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM