October 22, 2025
The Education Laboratory and the Institute of Artificial Intelligence for Education (IA.Edu) have established a partnership to develop a joint agenda of applied research and collaboration focused on teacher training and improving the quality of public education with the support of technology.
The initiative seeks to contribute to the strengthening of basic education, with equity, exploring the role of technology in a critical and responsible way, as a common lever for the work of both organizations. IA.Edu integrates the ecosystem of the Center of Excellence in Social Technologies (NEES) of the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal), and is dedicated to applied research and the development of resources based on artificial intelligence to support pedagogical decision-making and the personalization of learning.
Labedu and NEES are developing a repertoire of materials and tools capable of organizing and guiding the processes necessary to transform the learning context at the grassroots level, considering a specific challenge: the development of reading comprehension throughout schooling.
In this context, the teams are working on a prototype teacher training assistant, designed to support educators in planning activities that strengthen students' reading comprehension. Furthermore, the tool could assist in mapping the complexity of texts read in the classroom and promote increasingly precise interventions, thus facilitating the monitoring and improvement of teaching and learning processes.
For Nicole Paulet, director of Labedu, the collaboration with IA.Edu could contribute to the formulation of strategic uses of artificial intelligence in education, bringing pedagogical intentionality to the forefront. “We believe that technology can be an ally, as long as it is conceived from a pedagogical knowledge perspective. A truly formative tool must go beyond simply delivering activity plans. Our prototype aims precisely to promote back-and-forth processes that support teachers' decision-making, and, based on records of classroom practice, to be a link between formative processes and the experience where this knowledge is consolidated. This partnership invites us to think together about how technology can help broaden the reach and quality of continuing education, always anchored in research and evidence,” says Nicole.
By combining technical knowledge, applied research, and implementation experience, Labedu and IA.Edu seek to build pathways that connect innovation and pedagogical practice, highlighting the potential of partnerships between organizations and universities in producing knowledge relevant to the challenges of Brazilian education. The joint development of pedagogical materials optimized with artificial intelligence also aims to strengthen initiatives in the Brazilian context, contributing to equity and innovation in the educational sector of the Global South.
Alessandra Debone, CEO of IA.Edu, highlighted that the collaboration with Labedu reinforces the role of technology as an ally in building a fairer and more effective public education. “By connecting research and pedagogical practice, we can test and improve artificial intelligence solutions that reach different teaching contexts. This is how we transform technology into concrete results for equitable learning. Our approach starts with applied research and the development of technologies designed for educational purposes, which allows us to generate evidence-based solutions focused on real impact in the classroom.”