Teachers use AI for planning and marking, says report

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Teachers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to save time by “automating tasks”, says a government report first seen by the BBC. Adapting the reading age of texts, making handouts, and writing emails to parents were cited as popular uses, with a “small number” saying they used it for grading and feedback. Teachers said it gave them more time to do “more impactful” work. But the report also warned that AI can produce unreliable or biased content.

The Department for Education (DfE) report is based on 567 responses to a call for evidence about AI in education, including schools, over the summer. Most submissions were from England. It found that most respondents were “broadly optimistic” about the use of AI in education, but almost all had some hesitations. They worried about AI producing false information including when marking assessments, for example. The report will inform future policy on AI, the DfE said - adding that the government was already helping to “realise the potential of AI in education”.

According to the survey tool Teacher Tapp, four in 10 teachers are already using AI in their schoolwork. Prof Becky Allen, the app’s co-founder and chief analyst, said some teachers found it easier to use AI to cut down on work than others. “It’s really quite normal now as a maths teacher, that you don’t mark maths homework any more,” she said - adding that this was becoming the case even before widespread access to AI tools. One of the reasons why we’re OK with it in maths is because we have such chronic shortages of maths teachers that you know nobody really feels aggrieved."

Teachers use AI to set the tasks, pupils use AI to respond, teachers use AI to mark the results … :man_shrugging:

Automation has started … what next … :question:

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well from many centuries gone bye - many new discoveries and productions have sometimes been identified as the work of the devil. And this may of course be true? if you believe in all those supernatural phenomena? The christiann churches and the Muslim mosques usually preach positive messages of helping our fellowpersons whenever we can. Caring for the homeless and the orphans etc etc. and then the opposite view of satanic forces and sometimes soft and crafty elements of life that persuade us to be dishonest and commit various crimes of the evil side of life with which we struggle on a small scale and sometimes larger. I think computers and the internet and now AI and of course the robotic people the Japanese have started developing and indeed already using in hotels to deal with incoming guests can be seen as the work of the ‘devil’ , But surely it is how we use all these things whether selfishly or caring that matters and defines the man/woman?

So despite great technologies and weird and wonderful apparatii - there are still all the basic human instincts that we have cultivated and use for good or evil? these are still all around despite the technologies which we can of course use for good or evil?

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That does seem a little pointless. What are they actually learning? And is it necessary considering how easy it is to get access to a computer?

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sounds like a ’ cheating game’ to me?

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Coming soon - the AI PC:

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The rise of consumer-focused artificial intelligence applications (like AI art and ChatGPT) was the most dynamic trend of 2022. But don’t get too excited quite yet — buying new laptops from AMD and Intel with AI functions built in aren’t worth you opening your wallet.

Given the breakneck pace of AI development, though, they may very well be come next year’s CES.

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