The “Education Platform” project continues to provide managers and teachers from both sides of the Dniester River with the necessary professional training to digitize the instructional-educational process in educational institutions at all levels.

Yesterday, April 3, 2025, the “Classroom of the Future” of the State Pedagogical University “Ion Creanga” in Chisinau hosted a new seminar – “The use of artificial intelligence in digital education: challenges and opportunities”. It was facilitated by Dr. Veaceslav Cunev, expert in systemic thinking and artificial intelligence, President of the Association of private IT companies in Moldova.

The activity aimed to familiarize the 90 participants with several topics: “The main possibilities of ChatGPT”, “Using Gemini and Perplexity in the educational process”, “Prompt engineering” and “Working with AI assistants – capabilities and ways of application”.

Thus, the trainees discussed in detail how to use the ChatGPT platform in lesson planning, in the generation of learning materials and tests, in the development of digital competences and creativity of students. Special attention was paid to the comparative analysis of this platform and two artificial intelligence tools – Gemini and Perplexity, as well as their applicative potential in relation to school practice.

A learning session was dedicated to prompt engineering, or the process of designing the instructions given to an artificial intelligence model, a 21st century skill that enables accurate and useful responses from neural networks, saving time and valuable resources for the endeavors undertaken.

The final seminar sequence focused on working with AI assistants, which can take over routine tasks, automate tasks and support personalized learning. Learners were shown how these technologies can ease teacher workload and improve the quality of education.

Studying the possibilities of artificial intelligence is becoming a necessary part of the professional development of the modern educator. Technology is changing day by day. Therefore, in order to keep up with it, to make education more flexible, effective and interesting for students, teachers need to continuously develop their digital skills.

The activity is part of the “Education Platform” project of the European Union program “Confidence Building Measures”, implemented by UNDP Moldova, in partnership with the Educational Center PRO DIDACTICA and the Educational Center RAZVITIE, Tiraspol.