MTN Foundation has engaged Nigerian educators in a 12-week digital training session that focuses on how to incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and skills into daily classroom delivery and administration. 

The programme, now in its 10th week, is a collaboration between the MTN Foundation, Senator Abiru Innovation Lab (SAIL) and Co-Creation Hub, a leading Nigerian edutech platform. 

The programme’s central goal is to improve teaching and learning and equip Nigerian educators with 21st-century digital and AI skills. It also focuses on helping teachers and professors, school administrators, school counsellors, young instructors, education assistants and tutors understand a variety of skills in the world of learning. 

Particular attention during the 10th week is a session facilitated by Oluwatobi Olayanju, a data scientist and business analyst at Data Science Nigeria. During the virtual training session, the expert focused on AI literacy, responsible technology use and how to integrate the tools into class delivery. 

Olayanju shared with participants several AI tools available to educators, which are believed to polish their skills and enable new teaching methods of imparting knowledge to young Nigerians. 

Such tools mentioned by the expert include chatbots for lesson planning, visual design platforms, text-to-video and text-to-audio converters, and assessment generators for structured drilling of students. 

Olayanju also introduced ditchthattextbook.com to participants, which he described as “a centralised repository that aggregates these essential resources.” He added that the resource helps educators discover and apply modern digital tools in their practice. 

“Educators can leverage these tools for visual design, lesson…