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AI that helps students learn and teachers teach, especially where schools have the least. What works, what is still a pilot, and what nobody has proven yet.

6 stories · 5 countries · Updated November 9, 2026

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A wide, sandy dry riverbed with boulders and eroded banks, lined with acacia trees and green shrubs under a pale sky.

Education · Kenya

Can AI help Kenyan teachers meet every child at their reading level? A pilot in Kitui County

Nyansapo AI's phone app listens to a child read aloud and helps teachers group a class by level. Literacy results rose in a 2025 pilot, by the company's own report, and no comparison group is described.

Pilot · 7 min read

$The courtyard of a two-story school building in Tamale, Ghana, painted lilac, with red, yellow and green railings along the upper walkway and staircase, wall paintings of a kite, a mango and a bell, and a paved yard and green gate in the foreground.$

Education · Ghana

Students in five Ghanaian schools learned more math with a WhatsApp tutor. A 100-school trial is now checking.

Rori, a free AI math tutor from the education network Rising Academies, runs on WhatsApp on basic phones. A small 2023 experiment in Ghana found students gained more than classmates without it. A larger outside trial in government schools began in September 2026.

Deployed · 6 min read

An empty South Korean classroom with rows of wooden desks and chairs, a green chalkboard, a whiteboard of notices and a Korean flag above the board.

Education · South Korea

An AI tutor built to hold back answers: how Codle works in Korean classrooms

Korean startup Team Monolith designed its classroom AI to reply to students with questions, inside topics their teachers choose. Its Codle platform is used in hundreds of Korean schools. Whether students learn more is still untested.

Scaled · From the ITU 2026 report · 6 min read

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A long single-story school building with white walls, a green metal roof and a blue double door, seen across an empty concrete schoolyard with patches of snow and bare trees.

Education · Mongolia

Nearly 4,000 Mongolian teachers applied to learn AI. Graduates are due to teach it this school year.

A national campaign led by AI Academy Asia trained about 500 ordinary school teachers in 2026, with support from a Mongolian bank. The numbers come from the sponsor's side, and there is no word yet from the classroom.

Deployed · 5 min read

A finger touches raised braille dots on a blue metal sign in South Korea, next to printed Korean text listing station exits.

Education · South Korea

Korean students make picture books and songs with AI, in camps built to include disabled learners

Hanshin University in South Korea teaches school students to create with everyday generative AI tools through a state-funded camp program. Its 2026 courses include two made with blind and disabled learners in mind. Most results come from the university itself.

Scaled · From the ITU 2026 report · 5 min read

Wide panorama of the Islamic University of Gaza campus buildings in 2012.

Education · Palestine

How Gaza's universities keep teaching, and an offline AI idea for blackouts

With most campuses damaged or destroyed, Gaza's universities moved classes online and into temporary learning spaces. Al-Aqsa University has also proposed an offline AI tutor on solar-powered mini servers, a design still looking for partners.

Concept · From the ITU 2025 report · 6 min read