A form two Visual Arts student at Ghana Senior High School (GHANASS) in Koforidua, Eastern Region, has developed the country’s first web-based Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform trained entirely on the Ghana Education Service (GES) Standards-Based Curriculum (SBC).
The platform, Learnbridge, generates SBC-aligned lesson plans that integrate National Values, 21st Century Skills, cross-cutting issues, and the National Teacher Standards.
It provides creative starter and closure ideas, assessment questions with ready-made rubrics, and automatically builds a Table of Specification for the semester.
The tool also includes a learner portal that guides students step by step through the curriculum. The platform is accessible at [www.learnbridgedu.com] (http://www.learnbridgedu.com).
Seventeen-year-old developer Joshua Segu said he created the platform after noticing a lack of resources for the new curriculum.
“After introduction of the new curriculum I noticed there were not enough resources for both teachers and learners… So I went and built Learnbridge mid-March,” he explained.
Joshua Segu described how the system works, “We upload the curriculum to the system… when you are hard-pressed and you need a plan, you can just get onto Learnbridge, enter your strand, your substrand, your content standard and then the system searches into the resources and then puts together a plan that you can use. Teachers can also use it for assessment.”
His curiosity with AI began in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, when online learning exposed him to coding through YouTube tutorials.
“My journey started back in 2020… I went to YouTube and learned how to code from a few code camp learning projects,” Joshua said.
Teachers at GHANASS have praised the platform. Samuel Ohene Sarfo, Joshua’s Visual Arts teacher and mentor, noted that Learnbridge allows teachers to generate lesson plans and assessments based on the Depth of Knowledge (DoK) levels introduced by GES, improving teaching efficiency and creativity.
The school’s headmistress, Mrs. Diana Akosua Mintah, highlighted the student’s innovation beyond Learnbridge, noting that he also developed an electronic voting system for prefect elections.
“Recently we had a voting… he developed software that allowed votes to be counted in real time, and we could declare results immediately,” she said.
Assistant Headmaster Felix Pascal Duhoe added that both teachers and students can access the platform, improving lesson planning and learning outcomes. The school has called on government and private sector partners to invest in scaling the platform nationwide.
Joshua Segu has also appealed for scholarships to pursue Computer Science and AI studies at Stanford University, aiming to further develop solutions for Ghana’s educational challenges.
Source: Starrfm.com.gh
