#279 – Can We Trust in AI for Education? (AI in Ed Miniseries)
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What’s in this episode?
Coming to the fifth and final episode of our miniseries on AI for education, host Professor Rose Luckin is joined by Timo Hannay, Founder of SchoolDash, and Lord David Puttnam, Independent Producer, Chair of Atticus Education, and former member of the UK parliament’s House of Lords. This episode and our series have been generously sponsored by Nord Anglia Education.
Today we’re going to look ahead to the near and far future of AI in education, and ask what might be on the horizon that we can’t even predict, and what we can do as humans to proof ourselves against disruptions and innovations that have, like the Covid pandemic and ChatGPT’s meteoric rise, rocked our education systems, and demanded we do things differently.
Guests:
- Lord David Puttnam, Independent Producer, Chair, Atticus Education
- Timo Hannay, Founder, SchoolDash
Talking points and questions include:
- Slow Reaction to AI: Despite generative AI’s decade-long presence and EdTech’s rise, the education sector’s response to tools like ChatGPT has been surprisingly delayed. Why?
- Learning from Our AI Response: Can our current reaction to generative AI serve as a case study for adapting to future tech shifts? It’s a test of our educational system’s resilience
- AI’s Double-Edged Sword: With ChatGPT’s rapid rise, are EdTech companies risking harm by using AI without fully understanding it? Think Facebook’s data misuse in the Rohingya massacre
- Equipping Teachers for AI: Who can educators trust for AI knowledge? We need frameworks to guide them, as AI literacy is now as crucial as internet literacy
- Digital Natives ≠ AI-Ready: Today’s youth grew up online, but does that prepare them for sophisticated, accessible AI? Not necessarily
Guest
David Puttnam is a British film producer, educator and environmentalist. He is Chair of Atticus Education, an online education company founded in 2012 that delivers audio-visual seminars to students around the world. Until his retirement in October 2021, he was a member of the House of Lords for 24 years. Most recently, he sat on the Select Committee for the Environment and Climate Change, tasked with exploring cross-Government action on COP15 and progress on COP26
- Timo Hannay, Founder, SchoolDash
SchoolDash helps people and organisations to understand education through data. We work with leading consultancies, charities and companies to enable them to better serve individual schools and the wider education system. We also conduct occasional pro bono work for the public sector. Our founder, Timo Hannay, was the founding managing director of Digital Science, a research software business. Before that he was variously director of nature.com, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, a writer for The Economist and a research neurophysiologist at the University of Oxford and Waseda University in Tokyo. He is a non-executive director of SAGE Publishing and Arden University, and a governor of The Henrietta Barnett School. He is also an advisor to Ada Lovelace Day and Maths4Girls
Host
Rose Luckin – Professor of Learner Centred Design, UCL, Founder, EDUCATE Ventures Research
Rosemary (Rose) Luckin is a Professor at University College London and Founder of EDUCATE Ventures Research (EVR) who has spent over 30 years developing and studying AI for Education. She is renowned for her research into the design and evaluation of educational technology and AI. She was named as one of the 20 most influential people in education in the Seldon List in 2017, the only non-US winner of the ISTE Impact Award, and one of Computer Weekly’s top 50 most influential women in technology for 2023. Rose regularly provides expert evidence to policymakers like the UK Parliament’s House of Lords and House of Commons select committees and the European Commission. Rose has published widely in academic journals, at international conferences, through books, and in news media (TV, radio, newspapers, and magazines). Her 2018 book, Machine Learning and Human Intelligence: The Future of Education for the 21st Century, has been translated into Mandarin and influenced many of China’s leading AI companies. Her most recent book, AI for School Teachers (2022), is an essential and accessible guide to AI for anyone in education.
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Sponsorship
Thank you so much to this series’ sponsor: Nord Anglia Education, the world’s leading premium international schools organisation. They make every moment of your child’s education count. Their strong academic foundations combine world-class teaching and curricula with cutting-edge technology and facilities, to create learning experiences like no other. Inside and outside of the classroom, Nord Anglia Education inspires their students to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
“Along with great academic results, a Nord Anglia education means having the confidence, resilience and creativity to succeed at whatever you choose to do or be in life.” – Dr Elise Ecoff, Chief Education Officer, Nord Anglia Education
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