The UNESCO Courier
The living legacy of the Villa Ocampo
Special edition - November 2023
Built at the end of the 19th century in San Isidro, north of Buenos Aires, Villa Ocampo is much more than just a bourgeois Belle Époque house. It still reverberates with the conversations of the many artists who stayed there at the invitation of the legendary mistress of the house – Victoria Ocampo. Bequeathed to UNESCO in 1973, this house is now a cultural centre open to all.
Education in the age of artificial intelligence
Whether lauded or decried, technologies are increasingly part of the school landscape, at least in industrialized countries.Yet no matter how sophisticated they may be, they have not challenged the founding principle of a teacher giving a class simultaneously to a group of students. Artificial intelligence could be a game-changer. Does the arrival of content-generating tools like ChatGPT and intelligent tutorials mean the oft-heralded revolution has started?