ReadyAI Enters Israel
Pittsburgh (United States) / Tel Aviv (Israel), Feb 5, 2020 — ReadyAI, the first comprehensive teacher-friendly K12 Artificial Intelligence (AI) education company, today announced entering Israel’s secondary education market with Venus SAZ Ltd. Now Israeli students will have access to AI-IN-A-BOX, a comprehensive AI education solution for K12 teachers and students. Designed for users of all experience levels and abilities, It empowers schools and teachers in Israel to provide STEAM and project-based AI education. The unique curriculum teaches six key concepts of AI including visual recognition, facial recognition, object manipulation, landmark-based navigation, speech generation, speech recognition, through a variety of available lesson plans.
“As a start up nation (Israel), we feel that there is a will and desire to receive the most advanced tools from a young age. There is no doubt that this AI program is the right start in order to march our future generations to be leaders in the technological development of the world.” — Sivan Zilber, CEO of Venus SAZ Ltd.
Since 2017, ReadyAI has given children in nearly 40 countries the opportunity to learn and understand about artificial intelligence applications, computational thinking, and programming, as well as innovation and impact through project-based learning.
ReadyAI, in collaboration with Venus SAZ Ltd., has also launched “AI+ME” in Hebrew — free-for-all online experience designed to provide young learners around the world with the basics of Artificial Intelligence.
AI+ME takes less than an hour to complete! It introduces the Five Big Ideas that every student should know.
- Big Idea #1: Computers perceive the world using sensors.
- Big Idea #2: Agents maintain models or representations of the world and use them for reasoning.
- Big Idea #3: Computers can learn from data.
- Big Idea #4: AI developers strive to create agents that interact naturally with humans.
- Big Idea #5: AI can impact society in both positive and negative ways.
Based on guidelines by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) — AI for K-12 Working Group (AI4K12)
AI+ME is ReadyAI’s small contribution to equip young learners around the world with the knowledge and skills to respond to the future of work and empower them to take part in creating a more equal, inclusive and sustainable world.
“In order to build a better future for our children, much more is demanded. At ReadyAI we believe, investing in how the next generation understands and interacts with data and AI is the most vital investment that will pay off in the long run for all of us.” Roozbeh Aliabadi CEO of ReadyAI.
ReadyAI’s student competency framework focuses on three key areas of: Artificial Intelligence Application, Computational Thinking and Programming, and Innovation and Impact. AI competency framework gives educators the tools to assess a student’s AI journey and progress.
About ReadyAI
ReadyAI is the first teacher-friendly K12 AI education company to create a comprehensive, ready out of the box solution for K12 students. ReadyAI empowers K12 teachers to educate students on the key concepts of AI using its unique and proven project-based learning curriculum. ReadyAI is a wholly-owned division of WholeRen Group.
