AprendoEnCasa Conecta helps teachers develop the skills to mediate learning using AI, focusing on core competencies and collaborating with key stakeholders to meet local educational needs across Latin America.
Organization’s Background and Achievements
This project is one of the 2024-2025 WISE Prize for Education finalists.
Fundación Reimagina, founded by Ana Maria Raad, emerged during the pandemic as a response to the educational challenges faced across Latin America. AprendoEnCasa was born as a partnership with the Harvard Regional office of Latin America from a collaborative effort to address the needs of communities when schools were inaccessible.
Key achievements include:
- Impacting 780 schools across Latin America
- Establishing over 80 collaborative partnerships in 8 countries
- Creating more than 750 free educational resources for teachers
- Building a network of 15,000 active members
- Reaching 1,800,000 educational platform users
New Solution: AprendoEnCasa Conecta
AprendoEnCasa Conecta is an innovative platform that builds upon the success of its predecessor. It aims to help children and youth thrive in an increasingly digital society by focusing on teachers’ skill development and leveraging AI for learning. The platform collaborates with key stakeholders to meet local educational needs, crowdsources and curates high-quality educational content, and adapts this content to match the specific demands of local communities.
Key features of the platform include:
- AI-mediated learning skills development for teachers
- Focus on core competencies essential for the digital age
- Collaboration with key stakeholders to meet local needs
- Crowdsourcing and curation of high-quality educational content
- Adaptation of content to match specific local demands
The platform’s unique strength lies in its collaborative nature. By identifying local community needs and crowdsourcing resources through its partner ecosystem, AprendoEnCasa Conecta ensures that its implementation remains relevant and sustainable.
Future Impact and Prospects
Fundación Reimagina has set ambitious goals for AprendoEnCasa Conecta. Within five years, they aim to scale to at least 500,000 active users on the new platform and expand operations to at least 5 countries. The organization plans to continue fostering a collaborative spirit through technology among traditionally excluded groups and adapt to the new reality of hybrid learning. Ultimately, the organization envisions AprendoEnCasa Conecta as an agile and adaptable platform, constantly evolving to meet the changing needs of local communities across Latin America.
Addressing WISE Prize for Education Challenges
AprendoEnCasa Conecta addresses the following WISE Prize challenges:
- Artificial Intelligence in Education ☑️
- Teaching of Arabic Language
- Foundational Literacies
The solution has the purpose of ensuring students thrive in a digital society, so AI doesn’t exacerbate existing gaps in the classroom. AprendoEnCasa Conecta helps teachers develop AI-mediated learning skills and focuses on core competencies essential for foundational literacy in a digital society.
CONTACT US
- Websites: aprendoencasa.org – fundacionreimagina.org
- Social platforms: Instagram – X – Facebook – LinkedIn – YouTube