Category: #AIinEd

Last week we celebrated the kick off of a new AI schools project at our first meeting in Leuven. The project builds on the work we did in AI@School and previous Taccle projects in that we will work with schools, teachers and pupils to co-create curriculum linked resources. AI Ready is an Erasmus+ initiative designed to prepare secondary schools for the digital future by equipping the educational community with the knowledge and skills to understand and use Artificial Intelligence (AI) effectively. Being AI Ready isn’t just about knowing AI—it’s about making informed decisions, understanding its potential, and using it ethically […]

I am very happy to see the launch of the Digital Literacies Network, designed to Digital Literacies Network designed to empower Individuals and Communities and launched by my long time friend Cristina Costa, Associate Professor at Durham University in the UK and her colleague Michaela Oliver. The Digital Literacies Network, they say, “is dedicated to empowering digital citizens through collaborative learning and creative practice in digital culture. We believe that digital literacy is not just about technical skills, but about cultural knowledge, identity, voice, and participation in a diverse, interconnected world. We strive to: • Co-produce knowledge: working with young […]

Its a shorter article this week as I am off to Lueven in Belgium for the kick off meeting of a new project for schools in Europe, AI Ready. I’ll report on that meeting next week. But as I write, the news is buzzing rumours about a market correction, or put more vividly a burst bubble, in the value of AI companies. Its been some time coming. Market prices of companies like OpenAI, Microsoft, Anthropic and of course Nvidia have soared in recent months. Vast sums have been promised for developing the AI infrastructure with limited. justification. Indeed much of […]

Gloria Mendoza / https://betterimagesofai.org / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ollowing on from my last post around co-design, there seems to be an increasing number of experiments with educational institutions developing their own applications, rather than being totally dependent on commercial ed tech providers. One area attracting attention is assessment where teachers and trainers in vocational education are used to working with colleagues, especially from examining bodies, in designing assessment rubrics and processes. Last year, the UK Jisc organisation launched a pilot to explore how AI could help reduce workload around marking and feedback. That work continues this year, they say, with the KEATH, […]

For decades, the story of educational technology has been a one-way street. Technologists built the tools, and educators were persuaded to adopt them. The end-users, the learners themselves, were rarely part of the conversation. This has led to a flood of digital tools focused on efficiency rather than pedagogy, a point that Dr. Philippa Hardman explores in her latest newsletter. The Old Model: Efficiency Over Pedagogy Dr. Hardman argues that the traditional EdTech model has been driven by the wrong questions. Instead of asking, “How do we enable people to learn more effectively?”, the industry has been focused on “What […]

Here is the final part of my series of summaries of the provocative essays published in UNESCOs AI and the Future of Education  The collection argues that education requires more than technical fixes. Education is social, it will take dialogue, reflection, and imagination to co-create an inclusive, ethical, and human-centred educational future. Our stories about AI and education are still being written, and we have a collective responsibility to shape them with care, clarity, and courage. Part one is here And part 2 here Page 98: Compassion by design: Building AI with and for caring educators (Arafeh Karimi) Arafeh Karimi […]

A new joint UNESCO-European Commission project is looking at the intersection of artificial intelligence and education? And they are seeking dedicated researchers to conduct AS-IS and Gap Analyses for the “FutureProof Education: Supporting schools in the AI evolution” project. About the Project The ‘FutureProof Education project’ is a collaborative initiative that brings together six European education systems. Its primary goal is to promote the ethical, meaningful, and safe integration of AI in schools. This will be achieved by developing evidence-based strategies, tools, and guidance for teachers, school leaders, and education authorities. This project is funded by the European Union through […]

Last Tuesday, the electricity for my apartment was cut off from 8.30 until 1430 in order for essential repairs. Deprived of my normal morning browsing the news and using the internet for searching new ideas and publications, I was driven to going through my completely disorder downloads folder. It was somewhat shameful how many papers and documents I had downloaded, neglected to read and failed to properly index and file. But it turned upon some very worthwhile publications. One which I recommend is the recent UNESCO publication, AI and the future of education: Disruptions, dilemmas and directions. The introduction explains […]

Before most people had heard of OpenAI, Pontydysgu coordinated an Erasmus+ schools project to engage teachers in how to teach with and how to teach about AI. It covered the fundamentals; terms, technologies, ethics, and gave practical examples for using AI in the form of a toolkit and scenarios. There’s a curriculum written in a train the trainer style and a short 10 things about AI course too. The AI@School team included a mixture of teachers, teacher trainers, academics and EdTech experts. Many of them started work on the project not knowing the first thing about Artificial Intelligence. They spent […]