Dubai scales responsible AI learning across private schools

A new initiative is set to expand artificial intelligence education across Dubai’s private schools, aiming to equip students with essential AI skills for the future.

The multi‑year collaboration has been launched by DP World Foundation, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) programme.

Running until February 2030, the initiative will build a foundational understanding of responsible AI for students in Grades 6 to 8, while also providing teachers with professional development, classroom tools and assessments to integrate AI learning across core subjects.

The programme is expected to reach more than 80,000 students and around 3,600 teachers through a phased rollout.

The first phase will focus on co‑designing the curriculum with educators from selected schools, followed by classroom pilots and teacher training, before expanding across Dubai’s private school system.

Students will take part in short, practical AI modules across six subjects, including Maths, Science, Computing, Art, English and Arabic, learning how artificial intelligence works, how to assess its outputs, and how to use AI tools responsibly in everyday classroom learning.

Teachers will be supported with classroom‑ready resources, structured training and supervised access to age‑appropriate AI tools, designed to encourage safe and responsible use.

The programme also includes an AI enrichment component for high‑school students, based on MIT’s Future Builders model.

Delivered during school breaks, it combines online learning with in‑person sessions, mentorship, team projects and pitch‑style presentations.

The programme includes two components:

• AI Literacy for Dubai Private Schools (Grades 6–8 / Years 7-9): a cross-subject, short-format programme including curriculum, teacher professional development and assessments.
• AI Enrichment for High School Students (FutureBuilders-style): a hybrid programme during school breaks adapted from MIT’s Future Makers/Builders model.
  • It runs for four weeks online and one week in person, featuring mentorship, team capstones and entrepreneurial pitch-style presentations.
  • It will serve 40–100 students per session and will include completion certificates and formative evaluation of student learning and programme quality.

DP World Foundation, the Knowledge and Human Development Authority (KHDA), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Responsible AI for Social Empowerment and Education (RAISE) launch a multi-year collaboration to scale AI literacy education across Dubai’s private… pic.twitter.com/5aQcerUGce

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