AI
AI has been in the news a lot recently. And as I sit here looking at some IGCSE coursework that has obviously been done by chatgpt, I find myself pondering just how much education will be affected by what seems to be an unstoppable tide of new technological advances. I think the truth is that we just don’t know. I did a postgraduate course in Learning Technologies only three and a half years ago and the things we looked at on the course are already out of date because of just how quickly AI has invaded the technological sphere. And in this regard I’m extremely wary of self-appointed Educational Experts in AI given that in order to be an expert in anything surely you have to have studied it for many years, no? And how long, really, has it been used fully by the teaching profession anyway? Of course there will be People Who Guess The Future of AI but the technology is so new that there hasn’t been enough time to become expert in it, isn’t that self...