Sofia Education Conference to Discuss Teaching Pupils to Use AI

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The Skills for Innovation in Education national conference will open in Sofia to discuss how schools can teach children to use artificial intelligence (AI), the Centre for Creative Training said on Friday.
The conference will run through Saturday at Inter Expo Center. Figures to be presented at the event show that 94.7% of pupils use AI, but only 6.5% learned to use it at school.
The figures come from a national study by the Bulgarian Association of Software Companies (BASSCOM) and the Ministry of Education and Science, which surveyed more than 12,000 pupils, teachers and school principals. Only one in four pupils knows that their school has rules on AI use, the study found. A separate survey by Yettel and research agency Arbitrage found that 41% of teenagers use AI every day, chiefly for homework and advice. One in four of them shares personal information with AI tools.
The theme this year is how to remain human in a world of algorithms. Deputy Minister of Education and Science Tanya Pancheva and Centre for Creative Training Director Alexander Angelov will open the conference. European Commissioner for Startups, Research and Innovation Ekaterina Zaharieva will address the opening by video. More than 650 education leaders, educators and school principals from across Bulgaria are expected to attend, along with representatives of non-governmental organizations, institutions and businesses.
TED Prize winner Professor Sugata Mitra, who devised the Hole in the Wall experiment, will give a video lecture on learning in the age of AI. Spanish neuroscientist John Paul Pozuelos of the University of Granada will discuss how AI affects cognitive skills and how pupils can develop their ability to concentrate. Pozuelos created Neuromindset, a programme used in more than 40 Bulgarian kindergartens, the organizers said.
The education expo will bring together more than 150 exhibitors, including pupils from across Bulgaria who will present their own projects. Pupils from Shumen will display packaging made from algae and a cane equipped with a sensor to help blind people detect obstacles. Pupils from Varna will demonstrate an AI system that assesses whether water is safe to drink. The Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy and BRAIN++ are co-organizing the conference.

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