AI in Education #AIinED

Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority CEO David de Carvalho has written a forthright piece about artificial intelligence as it infiltrates our nation’s schools.

Mr de Carvalho has written that AI is disrupting the society for which schooling is supposed to prepare our children. His is a welcome contribution to this debate.

For too long, our education system has been based on a design from an industrial era.

Education is still primarily about the delivery and assessment of content knowledge: essays, assignments, exams. And it is benchmarked by how Australian students perform in standardised testing.

AI is about to make that focus redundant, yet our nation’s policymakers are taking their time to make meaningful contributions to this issue.