AI ‘biggest thing to hit education in 100 years’, historian says
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the biggest thing to hit education in 100 years and will change the design of schools within three decades, a historian and author has said. Sir Anthony Seldon, a former private school headteacher and co-founder of AI in Education said technology could mean that more of the “heavy lifting of learning” will be done by a pupil individually, rather than in a classroom.
It comes after Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said harnessing technology in schools can help to tackle the “crisis of belonging” among pupils and help to reduce teacher shortages. Speaking at tech event The British Educational Training and Technology (Bett) Show in London on Wednesday, Ms Phillipson set out plans to use technology as a “positive, radical, modernising force” and spoke of a system where teachers are “set free” by AI, meaning “less marking, less planning and less form planning”.
Sir Anthony praised her “very strong and brave intervention”, saying her comments were a “landmark”. AI in Education, which he co-founded, advises schools on which AI developments are likely to be beneficial, and which may be damaging. Sir Anthony told the PA news agency: “It will be such a different world because the heavy lifting and a lot of the learning can be done on the screen, sometimes in a lesson where you’ve got all the kids on a screen, sometimes in smaller spaces.
