Post by @Research_FTW@sciences.social

@Research_FTW@sciences.social 54 min. ago

UK gov changes structure of education to embed AI. Talk about the cart leading the horse!
"Importantly, this respecification of pedagogic practice requires a reshaping of educational materials and documentation into standardised forms to meet the limitations of AI training programmes. This is shown in the proof of concept technical report, which specifies the need for ‘codification of the National Curriculum’ into ‘AI-friendly structures’:"
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767724.2026.2720476#d1e459

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14767724.2026.2720476#d1e459

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Helen LH

@Research_FTW@sciences.social 52 min. ago

"The classrooms in these tests become modified automatable spaces, augmented by AI-edtech prototypes; teacher subjects become redeployed to subsidiary roles as AI is positioned to take on significant portions of their workload; and students are treated as testable subjects whose learning is to be observed, analysed and influenced by AI applications administered by AI companies." Devaluing teachers and their social role in service to AI tech bro vision.
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Helen LH

@Research_FTW@sciences.social 50 min. ago

"piloting and testing activities are designed to scale one possible future of schooling, while foreclosing alternative futures.....
A lack of ethical oversight of testing functionality may violate the rights of both students and teachers, and testing procedures may overlook ‘uncertainties and unknowns that are inherent in social changes induced by technological development’ (Dekker et al. Citation2025, 2979). "
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Helen LH

@Research_FTW@sciences.social 48 min. ago

In other words the government does not care about or understand education, and is quite willing to sell kids down the river for some tech money and to push unethical and unproven technology that has no basis in pedagogy. /4