AI “critical” for South African learners, says Centennial Schools [Video]

Traditional education in South Africa has deteriorated in its hesitance to transform for far too long and this has created a schooling system that churns out “largely unemployable matriculants who lack the essential skills needed for today’s economy,” says founder of Sandton-based Centennial Schools, entrepreneur Shaun Fuchs.

Despite schools across the country benefitting from “fourth industrial revolution” ready centers and technologies like personal computers and the internet and being exposed to topics like artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and coding, among others, seldom are they taught how to use these technologies or how they can create solutions.

Fuchs has made AI one of the most important aspects of the curriculum at centennial schools.

“Centennial Schools has taken on the challenge of introducing learners to the ever-evolving technological advancements and preparing students for the working world by including AI as a central point of its curriculum,” he explains.

“They are taught …