The Saint Augustine High School of the Augustinian Recollects in Valladolid, Spain, has once again become a focal point in its local community due to its ongoing educational innovation. The newspaper Tribuna de Valladolid has highlighted the school’s work in the field of AI applied to education.
Andrés M. Marcos Mateo, Director of Secondary and Baccalaureate at Colegio San Agustín, and Ibán de la Horra, Coordinator of Information and Communication Technologies at the school, have explained how AI, metaverse and extended reality tools have been integrated into the teaching and learning process.
Saint Augustine High School has adopted a model where technology doesn’t replace the student, but rather helps them think, understand, and learn. Students work with generative and conversational AI, immersive metaverse experiences, assisted programming, and 3D visual resources to facilitate learning.
AI is invaluable for understanding complex concepts in mathematics, technology, and computer science; it facilitates a visual approach to the human body in anatomy and allows for language learning without the need for a native speaker. Learning becomes more visual, participatory, and meaningful, increasing motivation and skills development.
Saint Augustine High School‘s educational project, within its comprehensive and values-based approach, is the responsible use of artificial intelligence. The priority is for students to learn to use these tools ethically, responsibly, and with critical thinking.
Students learn to compare information, verify sources, detect errors, argue their ideas, and build their own knowledge, focusing not so much on finding quick answers, but on finding appropriate and relevant ones. In this case, technology is used to encourage critical thinking, not to eliminate or silence a person’s own abilities.
Tribuna de Valladolid newspaper has been dedicating a special section to technology and Artificial Intelligence for some time. The fact that Saint Augustine High School has been chosen to share its experience in these pages makes it an educational benchmark within the local community and highlights the work carried out daily in its classrooms.
This Augustinian Recollect educational philosophy has the ultimate goal of preparing students for the world to come, focusing on human development, values, and holistic education so that each student becomes a responsible adult, building a just, supportive society centered on progress and the common good.
