AI in Education & MIS Directions

[Aftab_Ahmed]

With the recent announcement by Govt ministers at BETT upon the direction that they are proposing on digital strategies upon schools, I found this really useful overview schema put together by Brendan O'Keefe which summarises the main focus points of the agenda.

It will be very interesting in the MIS world, how this is going to be implemented and how prepared schools really are to adopt this type of technology given it is a shift change from historical practices.

What are your thoughts on this and the preparation involved to overcome those challenges mentioned in the document as it would certainly be interesting in what schools will be doing going forward - given we all play a vital role in this.

BOK's AI In Education Summary.pdf

[sigma]

I think it misses the nuances of the actual announcement. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/generative-artificial-intelligence-in-education/generative-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-education

[RogerBromcom]

I think AI is being overused and my worry is that people are becoming reliant on it.  This does nothing to promote independent thinking and also many people will take the output from AI as accurate and correct.  This is often not the case.  We have to remember that we are working with actual real young people here and not in a artificial setting.  How does AI know that little Jonnys rabbit died so is displaying uncharacteristic behaviours or has lower test scores than his work would suggest because of this.  AI does not understand emotions that we all know run wild in our young  people, so we need to find the happy medium.  

 

Using AI to speed up tasks that may require multiple pieces of information from different areas may be a way that we can do this.  An example would be finding year 11 students who are just missing a level 4 in Maths and English, then looking where they all have lessons that could be replaced by additional E&M and which rooms and teachers are free to take them.  This currently is a enormous task where you may have 30 timetables printed out in front of you trying to find the common link.  This is something AI could do easily so this is where it should be promoted

[Lunar77]

AI in education offers great potential for personalized learning and administrative efficiency, especially with tools like EduWriter that help generate and improve educational content. However, it also carries risks like algorithmic bias and over-reliance by students. Responsible integration should include teacher training, transparent data policies, and clear guidelines on when AI should complement—not replace—human instruction.

Edited November 14, 2025 by Lunar77