How many AI Literacy Frameworks do we need?
Michael Harvey reported in LinkedIn on the ASEF conference […]
Looking South: What Australia’s New AI Statement Means for European VET
It is easy to assume that the challenges facing Vocational Education and Training in the age of Artificial Intelligence are uniquely European. We spend considerable time debating how to balance the agility of dual systems with the coherence of centralised curricula, or how to implement the ambitious goals of the European Digital Education Action Plan across diverse national contexts. Yet, a look beyond our borders reveals that these structural tensions are remarkably consistent across advanced economies. A major new intervention from Australia, the Castlereagh Statement, raises issues similar to those of. Europe, particularly in its diagnosis of how educational systems […]
Making Sense of the European Approach to AI in Education
It is not surprising that there is growing confusion and even open anxiety about Artificial Intelligence in education. The rapid adoption of Generative AI, at least by students if not always by educational institutions, has raised basic questions about the future direction of teaching and learning. But while the headlines are often dominated by the latest releases from a limited number of large, mainly American technology companies, a different kind of development has been quietly unfolding closer to home. Over the past decade, the European Union has been constructing a comprehensive approach to AI policy, culminating in a framework that […]
Let’s talk about Learning
It is not surprising that there is growing scepticism and even open opposition to AI in education. Even if the latest release of Large Language Models have shown a marked improvement Generative AI remains problematic on a number of levels including so called hallucinations, ongoing biases, limited provision in many languages and so on. Perhaps most problematic is the control asserted by a very limited number of large manly American companies all of whom have tried to hype. The value of their products for education. All of which is true but is just a continuation of the trend to over […]
Learning to think in the age of AI: lessons for vocational education from the new UNESCO Courier
The latest issue of the UNESCO Courier asks a deceptively simple question: do we still need to think? At one level, the answer is obvious. Of course we do. Yet the fact that the question now has to be posed tells us something important about the moment we are in. Generative AI has arrived in education not simply as another digital tool, but as a technology that appears to challenge some of the core purposes of teaching and learning. It can generate essays, summaries, lesson materials, quiz questions, code, translations and feedback at speed. In doing so, it encourages a […]
Researching Futures in Education and Training: Reflections on the Social Life of AI and Troubled Times
The rapid adoption of Generative AI – at least […]
Trained to stop learning?
A new report from the UK-based higher education think […]
Podcast: Teachers, Trust and AI in VET
A couple of weeks ago I greatly enjoyed being interview by Michael Hallissy for Teachnet Ireland. We covered a lot of ground but being honest I didn’t want it to stop. Anyway here is their report on the podcast and you can listen to the podcast on their website. In the latest edition of the TeachNet podcast, Dr. Michael Hallissy is joined by Dr. Graham Attwell, a researcher and practitioner in vocational education and training (VET), and a leading voice in digital learning and artificial intelligence in VET. Drawing on over four decades of experience, Graham offers a critical and […]
The Gap Between AI Theory and Practice: A New Look at Labour Market Impacts
The debate over artificial intelligence and its effect on employment often feels like a pendulum swinging between utopian promises and dystopian fears. It is a discourse in need of data. A new report from Anthropic, titled “Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence” [1] attempts to ground the conversation in reality. The authors have developed a new metric—observed exposure—that moves beyond theoretical speculation by combining AI’s potential capabilities with data on its actual, real-world usage. The report contains a chart that tells a far more interesting and complex story than a simple narrative of job destruction […]
New EU Digital Education Guidelines
George Bekiaridis and Graham Attwell from AI Pioneers were […]
