Training
Open Educational Resources (OER) & Training Materials
Equipping Educators for the Generative AI Era
To ensure that ethical, culturally grounded AI integration scales beyond a single research project, the RGAI-FCT initiative is committed to radical openness. All of our training materials, workshop guides, and research protocols are published as Open Educational Resources (OERs). Designed with and for teachers operating in fragile, low-resource, and Accelerated Education Programme (AEP) contexts, these resources empower institutions anywhere to replicate our Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology.
The Modular Toolkits
A Scaffolded Journey
We recognize that educators enter the AI landscape with varying levels of digital readiness. Our comprehensive training materials are structured into three distinct, progressive modules, allowing educators to transition confidently from basic AI literacy to advanced educational leadership:
Basic Module
Foundations
Introduces educators to the core components of Generative AI. It focuses on functional, everyday skills, including setting up tools like ChatGPT, designing basic lesson plans, and generating quizzes. Crucially, it introduces the ethical considerations of AI and the RTCC (Role, Task, Context, Constraint) prompt engineering framework.
What you'll learn:
- AI setup and navigation
- Basic lesson plan design
- RTCC framework introduction
- Ethical considerations
Intermediate Module
Enhancing Pedagogy
Moves beyond basic generation to focus on personalized learning paths, project-based learning, and competency-based training. Teachers learn advanced assessment techniques, including AI-assisted peer feedback, assessment data analysis, and the use of AI for synthesizing literature and drafting research.
What you'll learn:
- Personalized learning paths
- AI-assisted assessment
- Data analysis for educators
- Literature synthesis
Advanced Module
Leadership & Innovation
Empowers educators to act as institutional leaders. This toolkit covers AI-driven curriculum development, complex learning analytics, utilizing AI for grant and thesis writing, and strategies for leading GAI-enhanced educational innovation in their communities.
What you'll learn:
- AI-driven curriculum design
- Learning analytics
- Grant and thesis writing
- Educational leadership
Slide Decks & Workshop Guides
Replicate the PAR Methodology
For institutions, NGOs, and policymakers wishing to conduct their own contextualized AI interventions, we provide the complete, open-source facilitator guides and slide decks from our 3-Day Participatory Action Research workshop. These materials allow you to guide your own cohort of teachers from "passive consumers" to "co-designers":
Foundations & Capacity Building
Full day (6 hours)Slide decks covering critical concepts like Datafication, Techno-Determinism, and Extractivism. Includes practical guides for teaching prompt engineering as a "decolonial weapon" to protect local knowledge.
Sessions:
- Introduction to AI in Education
- Identifying Digital Colonialism
- Prompt Engineering as Critical Literacy
- Group Practice: RTCC Framework
Materials:
Slide Deck (PPTX) 12.5 MB Facilitator Guide (PDF) 2.1 MB Handouts & Worksheets 1.8 MBThe Epistemic Audit
Full day (6 hours)Step-by-step guides for recreating the "within-subjects" experiment. Includes access to the 0-4 Output Scoring Rubric so participants can mathematically and qualitatively measure AI platforms for Factual Accuracy, Cultural Appropriateness, Epistemic Integrity, and Hallucination Frequency.
Sessions:
- Experimental Design: Within-Subjects
- Introduction to the 0-4 Rubric
- Testing ChatGPT vs. Gemini
- Analyzing Results: Measuring the Delta
Materials:
Slide Deck (PPTX) 15.2 MB Rubric Templates (PDF) 1.2 MB Data Collection Sheet 0.8 MBSpeculative Co-Design
Full day (6 hours)Facilitator materials for guiding teachers through the "Cursed Futures" scenarios (e.g., The Surveillance Classroom, Language Erasure). Includes structured templates for helping participants brainstorm and build their own Speculative Artifacts and AI-enhanced lesson plans rooted in frameworks like Afrofuturism and Ubuntu.
Sessions:
- Exploring Cursed Futures
- Brainstorming Counter-Narratives
- Creating Speculative Artifacts
- Presentation and Peer Feedback
Materials:
Slide Deck (PPTX) 14.7 MB Cursed Futures Scenarios 1.5 MB Artifact Templates 1.1 MBComplete 3-Day Workshop Package
All slide decks, facilitator guides, handouts, and templates in one downloadable archive.
The "Train-the-Trainer" Model
Scaling Epistemic Solidarity
True digital sovereignty cannot be achieved through top-down mandates; it requires horizontal structures of learning and community ownership. To scale this initiative across Uganda's diverse regions and refugee settlements, we utilize a rigorous Train-the-Trainer (ToT) cascading model.
AI Champion Teachers
Master Trainers & Lead Educators
Peer Training
Teacher-to-Teacher Capacity Building
Regional Coaching Pods
WhatsApp & Telegram Communities
AI Champion Teachers
We identify and equip local champions—Master Trainers, lead teachers, and NGO education officers—providing them with facilitator guides, offline training packs, and prompt playbooks.
The Cascading Impact
Master trainers are tasked with building the capacities of their peers, utilizing a targeted trainer-to-trainee ratio of 1:9. This ensures that the training reaches hundreds of teachers across multiple subjects and refugee camps while maintaining high-quality, localized mentorship.
Regional Peer Coaching Pods
Training is sustained through active, teacher-led communities of practice operating on low-bandwidth hubs like WhatsApp and Telegram. In these continuous coaching pods, educators debug biased AI prompts together, share successful lesson plans, review AI-generated materials, and curate the shared Prompt Library.
Train-the-Trainer Resources
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