Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Don’t let yourself be fooled by it! Embrace it but stay vigilant.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Happier learners actively steering their life goals. How to balance between teaching to a test and learning for life.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Never say never, so probably possible one day in the far-far future, but is it really desirable? It is up to us to decide what kind of future we want to build, so let’s plan carefully where technology is best placed!
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Opportunities but hyperbole and, so far, more promise than reality.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Opportunities for students to self-actualise but, if we’re not careful, compromised human relationships.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
For AI to solve problems in education, we need a radical change of trajectory. Today’s AI tools typically do little more than automate poor pedagogic practices. Instead, we need AI that addresses real educational problems, that empowers teachers and students, and that leverages the power of AI to create innovative approaches to teaching and learning.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Global ethical vision; a promise to improve the world; a risk
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
- Opportunity to advance inclusion, diversity, equality, understanding others
- Challenge of addressing the impact on teacher roles and learner agency
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Avoiding discrimination and learning to respect others. The impact that AI has on youth and children not only inside the classroom but outside as it shapes their capacity to learn. Education needs to prepare them to understand these technologies with critical thinking.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
The tossing of numbers, a technology that will take us into space, and a key technology of this century that most of us know nothing about.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
The school of the future knows how to extract and highlight talent from each student.
- Opportunity: Slovenia may be the first to acquaint primary and secondary school students with artificial intelligence tools [we have the necessary knowledge, tools, and skills].
- Challenge: to be the first in this field in the world, and to have the courage to do so.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
We introduce teaching of computer science without a computer (http://vidra.si) into already existing subjects and contents and create examples that enable primary school teachers to introduce such contents. We do the same by introducing knowledge of artificial intelligence tools. We help teachers with summer schools. Instead of systemic change, we focus on schools and groups of teachers who are motivated and show that there is a breakthrough in this area.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
GPT3 is phenomenal. Much easier to cheat: it will write term papers undetectably. We do not know its limits yet.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Integrating how to have well-being with the skills to hold a job in the workplace.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Optimists can take advantage of any positive technological development best. Pessimists flourish at times of retraction.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
AI is: 1. the successor of human intelligence, 2. our most beautiful child, and 3. perhaps our doom.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
I hope that the school of the future will be an institution in which digitalization will not prevail, but will also remain an institution in which students will learn about the importance of face-to-face communication in the real world.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Futurologist Ray Kurzweil argues that the moment of the so-called technological singularity will happen around the year 2045, when humans will load up on some sort of matrix and create a “superman” who will live forever. Yuval Noah Harari thinks similarly, saying that artificial and human intelligence will one day merge to form the Homo Deus. I personally think that both Harari and Kurzweil are partly right, but I am concerned that only the elite will be upgraded, and most of humanity will stay in the dark and watch from afar how a new man, connected to artificial intelligence, is created.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Computers performing tasks and solving problems characteristic for human intelligence.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
- Opportunity: Correcting the equation »cognitive skills lead to career & life success and satisfaction« back to »cognitive + social + emotional + bodily (motor) + spiritual (character) skills lead to career & life success and satisfaction«
- Challenge: Moving from »one size fits all« school programs to individualisation & personalization of school
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Schools need to transform from places where information is memorised to places where children develop critical thinking skills that will help tem distinguish between credible information and untruths, conspiracy theories and fake news. The idea of a teacher as person transmitting the knowledge to passive recipients, should be replaced by an image of an enthusiastic motivator, empowering pupils to become active participants of the learning process, seeking and constructing knowledge by themselves. As people are not only cognitive, but also social, emotional, etc. beings, winners of the future will be schools that focus on well-being of all participants (pupils, teachers, etc.) and aim to equip children better not only with knowledge and competences, but also with key life skills (such as resilience, altruism, optimism, courage, creativity, gratitude) for higher well-being in life.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
The attention economy currently undermines AI’s potential.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Critical source literacy will join reading, writing & counting as an educational right. Time’s short.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Children can be critical thinkers who sort facts, bias and fakes as they navigate alone on fast-evolving apps. What this takes is simple and engaging training, integrated into routine teaching. With such skills, children can mine the digital world’s trove of information to its best potential. Lie Detectors’ work shows this is possible and not hard to do.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Task completion, decision making and future preparedness.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Support innovation by making connections between subject areas (opportunity) and embed this effectively and coherently (challenge).
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Digital transformation can support innovation and entrepreneurship education through providing a forum, medium and testbed for pursuing opportunities and turning ideas into action. It is a means for students to reach out, connect and develop knowledge and real-life resources to support their personal, academic and professional development.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
- Loss of jobs
- Speech recognition
- Personalised medicine
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Global citizens who work together for the greater good of all.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
It will be dependent on how it is used. It has the potential to connect learners and to allow them to learn and imagine together, but children need rounded experiences to be able to imagine in the first place.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
AI does mechanical work instead of humans, who then have more time for creativity and thinking.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
- Opportunity: greater use of information technology to obtain relevant data.
- Challenge: educating a curious, creative and critically thinking student.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
It is a »machine learning« tool that generates development while opening dilemmas about the autonomy of the individual.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
The school of the future is a learning organization, a platform for the optimal development of all the participants – teachers, students, as well as parents and the wider community. The process of transforming a school into a learning organization, however, is an opportunity and a challenge in itself.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
In the hands of a responsible individual, artificial intelligence a tool or an accessory for achieving meaningful goals.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Consideration and agreement on what are the core components of a school that support and build full human potential.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
- Something futuristic that will soon become part of everyday life.
- Digital devices.
- A lot of knowledge is needed to handle it responsibly.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Development of a socially and emotionally competent society.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Automation, free time, universal basic income
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Greater clarity, accessibility and individualization, but on the other hand also the risk of increasing the differences between schools or students in terms of the ability to purchase quality ICT equipment.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to me?
Siri, learning algorithms, immense accuracy and automation.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Personalised learning that will enable equal inclusion and participation of all learners in education and society as such.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to you? Please, write down three things that come to your mind.
Perfectionism, overrated prophecies and myths, Person of Interest (TV Series)
Q2: What will the school of the future bring? Write down an opportunity and a challenge.
- Enhanced learner autonomy for global education
- Conflicting education priorities and lack of competence
Q3: How can we prevent the digital divide from becoming yet another field of inequality?
Education systems should ensure that all citizens
– have equal access to digital technology, including in schools, libraries and public institutions;
– are equipped with basic functional and digital literacy skills;
– are provided with a secure technical infrastructure.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to you? Please, write down three things that come to your mind.
I look at AI as a growing landscape of new technologies and intelligent computing systems and tools, supporting humans in solving complex tasks.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Different future scenarios are possible, and this is our big challenge. However, we can proactively shape a preferred future, one in which schools are empowering and inclusive learning spaces supporting our young people to fulfill their potential and to become the caring, collaborative, engaged and creative citizens that our world needs.
Q3: What will happen if artificial intelligence becomes smarter than humans?
Innovating education is too complex and too critical of a task to be solved by individuals or small groups alone. Hackathons create safe spaces for large scale, inclusive participatory design and experimentation. They are the perfect playground for groundbreaking ideas and fast moving innovations that put the learner, the learning journey and the pedagogical experience at the center.
Q1: What does the artificial intelligence mean to you? Please, write down three things that come to your mind.
Smart assistants. Natural language processing tools. Manufacturing robots.
Q2: What will the school of the future bring?
Global learners, independent from place and time. Students’ collaboration with their peers, teachers, local and global communities. Creative and personalised learning environments.