OSLO, Norway \u2014 Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI \u200btools by elementary school pupils while also restricting their use in the education of older children to prevent a negative impact \u200con learning, the country’s prime minister said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Facing a broad decline in education test scores, \u2060the government in 2024 banned smartphones \u200bfrom schools and has given \u2060teachers back more powers to enforce discipline in the classroom.<\/p>\n
Using AI increases \u200cthe risk that young \u200cchildren skip important steps in their education, Prime Minister Jonas \u2060Gahr Stoere told a press conference on \u2060Friday.<\/p>\n
“The most important thing in school is that our children learn to read, write and do mathematics,” Stoere said, adding that the new standards will be imposed from the new school year beginning in late August.<\/p>\n
Pupils from first through seventh grade, aged 6 to 13, \u200cshould as a general rule not be using \u200bAI, while those in lower secondary school, aged 14 to 16, can cautiously adopt tools under teachers’ supervision, the government said.<\/p>\n
In upper secondary education, from ages 17 to 19, students should learn to use AI appropriately so that they are prepared for further education and work, it added.<\/p>\n
Norway began adopting computers in classrooms in the 1990s and tablets \u200bafter the introduction of the iPad from 2010 onward, reducing the reliance on \u200cbooks and handwriting.<\/p>\n
But \u200cin a \u2060related statement on Friday the government also said it will propose legislation to fund the use of more books in classrooms, reversing the trend toward computer tablets.<\/p>\n
The Norwegian government in April also announced plans to ban children \u200cfrom using social media \u200buntil they turn 16, following a trend \u200cpioneered by Australia and \u2060some other \u200bnations to reduce young people’s use of electronic devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OSLO, Norway \u2014 Norway is imposing a near ban on the use of generative AI \u200btools by elementary…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,1302,3811,526,97,3812,134,3729,3,111,3813,3814,99,74,1505,2987,3324,2986],"class_list":["post-716582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-education","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-technology","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}