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MIT Technology Review is a media company founded at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1899. Through a seemingly well resourced portfolio of web sites, print, newsletter, media and live events, MIT Technology Review says they aim to explain the newest technologies and their commercial, social, and political impacts. Their mission, they say, is to empower our audience with credible insights to understand what’s coming next in emerging technology, and why it matters. I have been subscribed to their free newsletter on AI for the last three years. And it has extensively covered the rise of Generative AI from a […]

Graham and I were discussing what personalised learning actually means in terms of the promises made by ed tech companies to use AI to offer differentiated and personalised learning. Graham introduced me to the idea of ants following predefined pathways as a metaphor for learners following AI predictions of what to study next. The more ants following the same pathway, the more that pathway becomes used, the more likely the AI is to suggest it. The pathway is never truly personalised, just branching options of a choose your own adventure story where the endings are pre-defined. I had always assumed […]

Maria Perifanou has announced the Call for Papers for a Special Issue in the Educational Technology Research and Development (ETRD) Journal on Generative AI and the Future of K–12 Education.The issut aims to advance research, theory, and practice on the responsible, sustainable, and ethical use of GenAI in K-12 education, promoting the significance of human agency within GenAI implementations. It invites contributions that explore and discuss the ethical equity and policy dimensions of GenAI adoption in K-12 educational contexts. Submissions may include theoretical reviews discussing frameworks, theoretical and conceptual analyses, ethical implications, empirical studies, and critical reviews. Collectively, these contributions […]

There is no shortage of noise about Artificial Intelligence in education. We are bombarded with daily announcements of new tools and bold predictions, swinging from utopian visions of personalized learning to dystopian fears of teacher redundancy. It can be difficult to find a signal in the noise. A a new white paper by Tom Chatfield, “AI and the Future of Pedagogy,” is a welcome intervention. It cuts through the hype and grounds the conversation not on the technology itself, but on the principles of how humans learn. For those of us in vocational education and training (VET) across Europe who […]

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 […]