UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debate

The Manila Times

UK's first AI classroom without teachers sparks debate  David Game College, a private school in central London, is almost six months into a trial in which students are taught core curriculum subjects by AI platforms. The trial underlines the potential benefits and risks of the UK government's drive to roll out artificial intelligence in education, experts say.  AFP VIDEO  Subscribe to The Manila Times Channel - https://tmt.ph/YTSubscribe   Visit our website at https://www.manilatimes.net   Follow us:  Facebook - https://tmt.ph/facebook  Instagram - https://tmt.ph/instagram  Twitter - https://tmt.ph/twitter  DailyMotion - https://tmt.ph/dailymotion   Subscribe to our Digital Edition - https://tmt.ph/digital   Check out our Podcasts:  Spotify - https://tmt.ph/spotify  Apple Podcasts - https://tmt.ph/applepodcasts  Amazon Music - https://tmt.ph/amazonmusic  Deezer: https://tmt.ph/deezer  Tune In: https://tmt.ph/tunein  #TheManilaTimes #worldnews  #artificialintelligence  #education

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00:00I know right, I know right, it's really bad for adults and they've got nothing for students.

00:15It's actually really efficient. I was unsure at the beginning because it's just natural

00:19to feel unsure and then after actually being with it for a long time now you can see the

00:26evidence right in front of you. Teaching and education will be transformed by AI. There's

00:32no doubt about that and AI is not going away. So you either be agile and adopt it or you

00:41could become later on to some extent a victim of it. So what we're trying to achieve here

00:48and I think many other schools is working with it. I have my intuition, I have my experience

00:53which is worth something but I can't pinpoint it. The AI systems can give you that level

01:02of granularity. They can pinpoint why and they can tell you what the student knows and

01:09what they don't know with a greater degree of accuracy than your average teacher. Anyone

01:14in a teaching capacity is kind of there to make an impact and a change, a positive change

01:19to young people's lives and that's what I get to focus on now because I don't spend

01:23my time teaching lesson content. So I'm really hopeful that for teachers these tools will

01:29enable them to do things they haven't been able to do before, will enable them to have

01:33insights into exactly where a student's struggling and exactly where they can put their help

01:41because there's one thing for sure, we don't want classrooms without teachers. There can

01:45be risks involved with poorly designed artificial intelligence that might give mis- or disinformation

01:50to the student. There are risks related to students inappropriately offloading activities

01:59to AI that would be better done by themselves, allowing them to rely too much on the AI.

02:05So there are a lot of risks that we need to make sure...

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