Personalised learning at scale: What are we willing to trade?
Written By: Author(s): Francesca de Garis
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FRANCESCA DE GARIS, AI TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT LEAD, ELIZABETH COLLEGE, GUERNSEY
Let’s briefly imagine that a generative AI (GenAI) system was adopted at scale in education and used as personal learning assistants for students. Every student is given full access, and it is used to teach all current subjects. It is trained on the national curriculum and school-own resources with age minimums appropriately adjusted. In this imagined scenario, teachers might be a lot freer and more available to move around the classroom giving one-to-one attention to students, instead of trying to juggle teaching a whole class, concerned that several students will not be seen to in the short time the lesson allows. Student motivation is high, which the teacher can tell by the level of focus and independence. She helps a student with a concept by testing their understanding in dialogue and clarifies some initial uncertainty before asking where they will take their learning next; everything is focused o
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