Dr Theocharis Kyriacou, who is associate professor of AI at York St John University, explained government guidelines on the use of AI in schools were only produced a year ago.<\/p>\n
The Department for Education made it clear teachers could use AI but they needed to use their professional judgement to check anything generated was accurate and appropriate.<\/p>\n
“The final responsibility always rests with them and their school or college,” a DfE spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
“It’s still in its very early adoption phase, so there is interest and experimentation from schools, and that’s rising rapidly,” Kyriacou said.<\/p>\n
“But deployment and use is patchy and uneven at the moment, it’s still only used for low stakes tasks, such as drafting feedback, quizzes or resource creation.”<\/p>\n
According to the professor, pupils would benefit from consistent marking and faster feedback with AI but it could also be a game changer for teachers. <\/p>\n
“It’s very widely accepted that teachers are overworked. (They work) about 50 hours plus a week and that’s unsustainable,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It’s time at the end of the day, it saves them time producing extensive and detailed feedback and personalised feedback for their students.”<\/p>\n
However, he warned completely outsourcing marking would not be a good use of AI, as it would take the skill out of the hands of teachers.<\/p>\n
“On the other side of how the student perceives being marked by AI, I’ve looked at some conversations on different forums and I can see that there’s this distrust and dislike about being marked by AI,” Kyriacou added.<\/p>\n
“There can be distrust from parents if they don’t understand how these things are used.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Theocharis Kyriacou, who is associate professor of AI at York St John University, explained government guidelines on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":517204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-517203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}