A delegation from the committee for work with the gifted at Al-Mabarrat schools, represented by the director of Al-Rahma Secondary School Ms. Sulaf Hashem and the director of Al-Jawad Secondary School Ms. Souad Marah, took part in the sixteenth Arab academic conference, “Giftedness, Excellence and Artificial Intelligence in Education: Future Visions”, held at Petra University in Jordan at the invitation of the Arab Council for the Gifted,
under the patronage of the former Jordanian prime minister Adnan Badran, senior adviser to Petra University and its board of trustees, and attended by leading Arab and international academic figures in the education of the gifted and high-achieving.
The conference aimed to introduce the most important modern international programmes in educating the gifted, to exchange expertise and experiences in the field of artificial intelligence applications, to review many Arab experiences, and to look at the opportunities available for incorporating artificial intelligence into the curricula, from the early teaching stages through to higher education.
Ms. Souad Marah presented an action research study entitled “The Benefits of Applying Artificial Intelligence in Educating the Gifted”, carried out at Imam Al-Jawad Secondary School - gifted section. Ms. Sulaf Hashem presented a paper entitled “Artificial Intelligence for the Gifted and High-Achieving in Learning and Teaching: Wide Hopes and Many Fears”.
