Artificial intelligence has the power to transform teachers’ everyday lives, the Secretary of Education said in a speech today (Wednesday, March 29).
AI technology offers many cutting-edge opportunities, and some schools are already capitalizing on that potential. Other schools are learning and understanding the full capabilities of AI to help teach tomorrow’s lessons.
Gillian Keegan speaks at the Bett Show in London, laying out AI’s enormous potential for the education and tech sector, and calling on governments to maximize its potential and manage its risks.
The Secretary of Education’s speech coincided with the release of the Department of Education’s statement outlining the opportunities and risks associated with AI for education.
The Secretary of Education is expected to say:
AI has the power to transform teachers’ daily work. I’ve seen people using it to write lesson plans and some interesting experiments with grading.
Can we do those things now to the standards we need? Should I sacrifice the quality of skilled teachers to save time? Absolutely not.
But will it actually significantly reduce teacher time-wasting tasks?
Getting to that point is a journey that we in this room must go on together. use.
The ministry is also announcing further support to ensure schools have a safe, secure and trustworthy foundation in place before they consider using more powerful technology.
The additions to the department’s digital and technology standards, which cover cloud technology, servers and storage, filtering and monitoring, will help schools save money and create a safe learning environment.
Support also includes new digital services to help senior leaders with technology planning.
The tool benchmarks technology against digital standards, suggests areas for improvement, and provides actionable steps and self-service resources to implement these recommendations.
The service will be piloted in partnership with schools in Blackpool and Portsmouth in September 2023. Both of these are priority education investment areas, which are then rolled out across the country.
These new announcements build on the Spring 2022 Schools White Paper to “fix the basics” of school technology, aiming to ensure high-speed broadband internet connectivity and targeted classrooms in all schools by 2025. continue to deliver on the commitments made by the government in Connection upgrade.
