2024-09-24 08:37:35
British school to start classes with Artificial Intelligence despite critics who point to a dehumanization of the educational process.
For the next one Monday, September 23 The start of is planned a pilot program at David Game College in London, England, through which Artificial Intelligence (AI) will replace the teachers of one of the subjects taught at the exclusive establishment.
According to media reports in that country, at the beginning This will apply to students between 15 and 17 years oldwith the aim of allowing them to follow classes from a room without teachers and through screens and virtual reality lenses.
However, during the implementation of the program, schoolchildren They will be able to resort to so-called “learning tutors”who are teachers who will support students with any difficulties they encounter, but who will not teach classes.
According to the project’s developers, AI will be able to create personalized study plans for each student, reinforcing the subjects that the student needs to improve his academic performance.
In an interview with the Spanish newspaper La Vanguardia, the deputy director of David Game College, John Dalton, said that even if human teachers try, they do not have the capacity to offer students the same level of personalization that AI delivers.
Critical voices against classes with artificial intelligence in schools
While the British school highlights the option of Artificial Intelligence as an alternative to the growing lack of teachers in the country, there are critical voices that point to “a real education”which is the name of a campaign started by Chris McGovern.
According to him, the school not only instructs, but also educates, so replacing teachers with new technology “dehumanizes” the learning process.
On the other hand, in 2022, a work by Stanford University showed that Students who spent more time interacting with screens showed lower academic performance than those who received traditional education.
In 2023, UNESCO expressed concern about the excessive use of technology in classrooms and called for preventing schoolchildren’s education from depending solely on AI.