What is Artec Intelligence?

Artec Intelligence is a programming platform which lets you use generative AI to control robots and systems.
Write your instructions using natural language and the AI will make your program.
Finding the most effective way to write these instructions is a key part of
cultivativing a child's ability to think logically.

The Features

Feature ①

Program your Core Unit's onboard sensors and display and external parts.

Feature ②

Use written prompts in addition to images and voice to make instructions.

Supported Hardware

Details
Details
★ Support for the BBC micro:bit is in the works.
Kazuo Tenra Former instructor at Hibiya High School in Tokyo and project professor at Tokyo Gakugei University
The growth of generative AI means big changes for the world of programming education. Artec Intelligence is a new kind of programming platform which fosters logical thinking in children by allowing them to use this technology to control robots. Writing instructions to generate code makes it easy to start programming, even for beginners. This makes it a perfect tool for developing the ability to ask the right questions and prompt literacy needed in the age to come.
With recent developments allowing generative AI to create code, all eyes are on its applications in programming education. This is especially true when it comes to allowing complete beginners to create working algorithms without needing in-depth programming knowledge. This also applies to the programmatic thinking defined by Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology. Thinking like a programmer has less to do with learning programming languages than envisioning how programs work as you create a series of logical steps. The age of AI places an increasing amount of importance in formulating accurate prompts for the model. This is what we might call your ability to ask the right questions, or prompt literacy.
Artec Intelligence is a tool which lets you develop your ability to think like a programmer, ask questions, and develop prompts not just on the screen, but for a real microcontroller. Leveraging generative AI requires both logic and accurate prompts. Moving through this process allows the learner to level up in terms of expressing intent and navigating the problem they need to solve. Reviewing and debugging generated code can also help cultivate judgment and critical thinking. Sussing out the errors which can appear in this code teaches us to discern the accuracy and validity of an answer rather than taking it at face value. Learning through interactions with generative AI also goes beyond acquiring knowledge, helping us to train our faculties to think, judge, and express as well as improve our attitudes towards learning in a way official curricula deems critical. With generative AI taking a role in education, education demands instructors who support every learner's path towards creativity and autonomy.
Artec Intelligence works as both a pragmatic way to introduce generative AI into real classrooms and survive the age of AI.