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For Teachers

With 15 years of teaching experience, we recognise that too many teachers assume they won't know enough about AI to have a meaningful conversation about it with their students. Many would avoid the 'thorny' issue of an ethical discussion at all, for fear of offence. 

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However, it is our duty as teachers to prepare our students for the world they will help create and to help arm them against the risks of the world in which they live. We want to help you with this.

An opportunity for now

We educate to pass on the best of the past to form the best possible future. The students sat in front of us now are the first AI Generation; their world will be shaped by it. We need to give them the tools to understand both their role in this and their responsibilities.

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As a teacher, you perhaps fall into one of two camps: those who are engaging with AI and exploring its capabilities in the classroom, and those who are reacting to it as it appears in student work.

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Do you get your algorithims confused with your machine learning? Your NLP mixed up with your back-prop? For too many teachers, a lack of technical understanding of AI prevents us from discussing the subject with students. The students are much more proficient early-adopters of AI and have been using it increasingly over the last couple of years.

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We are not computer experts. Indeed, one of us is a former Head of English! However, we understand enough about the technology to be able to give you what you need to begin these conversations. 

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Your areas of academic concern for your students will probably centre around:

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  • AI Bias

  • Amplification of prejudice or inaccuracy

  • Over-simplification in search responses

  • Removal of outliers, minority opinion and originality

  • Adversarial AI (how it can be easily misled)

  • Issues of plagiarism

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However, we would argue that you should then be leading your students on to the wider areas of concern posed by AI, perhaps including:

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  • Accountability and transparency

  • Democratic norms

  • Privacy

  • Sustainability

  • The dignity of the human

  • The dignity of work

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For many teachers, this is a daunting task. We provide prompts, lesson plans and suggested activities to support these discussions. Whether they take place in a formal classroom setting, in after hours extension classes, the PSHE curriculum or in pastoral settings, these are the discussions these students need to be having as they prepare for an AI-inflected society. To avoid the topic out of discomfort or uncertainty is to leave them unprepared.

Training Programmes

From INSET to student seminars, after-hours CPD to parent information evenings, we offer AI ethical literacy training for every aspect of school life. Please click below to explore in more detail.

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