AIDIN, the educational AI that revives Socrates, arrives in Abu Dhabi classrooms

Artificial Intelligence will impact classrooms, but not all are created equal. While generative AI creates content in seconds, educational AI transforms how we learn. The problem? Many people confuse the two, and this misunderstanding has generated rejection in schools and families. From Europe comes AIDIN, the Socratic pedagogical AI from STEAM Future Academy that challenges students with the Socratic method and settles this debate. This innovation debuts in the UAE thanks to The Spanish School of Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi, 20 March 2025 - AIDIN, the first Socratic Educational AI, has been developed by the European STEAM Future Academy. Present in Europe and Latin America, it has made the leap to Abu Dhabi thanks to ‘The Spanish School of Abu Dhabi’, the only Spanish school in the Middle East.

Now, they incorporate educational AI into their classrooms, teaching Science and Programming with AIDIN.

These are group classes, led by teacher David Vílchez with the help of an AI fed with challenges, clues and mysteries from the sciences and trained so that students discover the answers for themselves, without explanations, with a Socratic method of questions and challenges.

David Vílchez recounts the reaction of his students:

"I explained that it was a class with artificial intelligence (AI) and they immediately started saying: ‘ChatGPT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT, ChatGPT’. But I explained that AIDIN would not give them the answers, but would guide them in their learning. In the group part, they really wanted to interact with the artificial intelligence. They were very excited and eager to actively participate."

It is Socratic educational AI that responds to families who want their children to communicate, think critically and be creative.

Student testimonials:

Laura: "The most fun was talking to AIDIN".

Francisco: "The class was fun and exciting".

Ana Victoria: "We learnt a lot about stars, astronomy and the Big Bang".

But many parents also want other things for their children. That's why they also work hard with AIDIN, writing by hand, with pen and paper, and making diagrams.

To make the diagrams, the pupils receive material distributed physically. The difference is that they can send the paper outline to AIDIN, which makes comments and suggestions for improvement and gives them a mark. And if the student wants to raise it, they can repeat all the work until they get an A. But it is better to get it right the first time. Concentration, effort and motivation from the beginning.

Students also develop programming projects tutored by AIDIN and reviewed by their teacher. Computational thinking and programming skills are addressed in this phase. And the students love it.

Antolín García, CEO of STEAM Future Academy and promoter of the Socratic Pedagogical AI AIDIN states that:

"A typical mistake in schools is to use Apps or individual platforms in the classroom. The magic comes from the collective classroom, from the interaction of the children with each other and with the teacher. Individualised APPs kill that magic. The teacher has to be the one who leads the class. If the teacher becomes an add-on to the device, then why does the child go to school?".

There is a debate about whether Europe is lagging behind the US in large Generative AI models. But with this Socratic AI, Europe is taking the lead in Pedagogical AI in this false dilemma between knowledge and emotion, paper or screens, classic or modern, which generates bitter debates in school boardrooms, among families and against teachers and management.

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