By Jacinta Nwachukwu
The Secretary General, Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC), Manssour Bin-Mussallam, has called on education authorities to redesign school curriculum to shift from problem solving to problem posing in Africa.
Bin-Mussallam said this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Thursday.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that problem posing is an educational strategy where learners create or reformulate questions from given situations or existing problems.
It also serves as a teaching tool to assess understanding or as an instructional strategy to develop students’ ability to analyse information and generate their own meaningful problems.
The OSC scribe said: “We should impart to our youth the ability, not to answer a question, but to articulate the right questions, to analyse their society and problematise the issues to resolve them.
According to him, a curriculum that is focused on problem solving is bound to enter into crisis in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI).
“I propose that we move our education systems from problem solving to problem posing.
“In AI today, we’ve all played around with ChatGPT, I suppose, and you look at ChatGPT, two people can ask for the same thing from ChatGPT, and they get very different results.
“One gets a relatively abysmal result, and another gets something that is actually quite good. Why? One knew how to problematise the issues so that the AI responded better,’’ Bin-Mussallam said.
According to him, today’s artificial intelligence, unfortunately, does not reflect the context of our reality.
He explained that AI data is biased; hence artificial intelligence today is excellent at translating automatically between French and English languages.
“But to translate into any of our languages, it becomes abysmal, because it was not trained to do that,’’ he added.
He said the curriculum development should not just prepare the youth to develop AI that responds to the realities, but it should be designed to shift from problem solving to problem posing in the age of AI.
He noted that preparing the youth to lead the transformation of intelligence through AI that reflects the realities could take a long term.
The Organisation of Southern Cooperation (OSC) is an intergovernmental organisation established to promote balanced and inclusive education and foster cooperation among countries in the Global South. (NAN)(www.nannews.ng)
Edited by Deji Abdulwahab
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