THE PANEL:
• Lord Jim Knight, Director of Suklaa Ltd and former UK minister for schools, digital and employment
• Professor Rose Luckin, Professor and Founder, UCL and Educate Ventures
• Rowena Chung, Product Director, Education, Goodnotes
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION HOLD FOR FIVE-YEAR OLD BETTY? Professor Rose Luckin: I have absolutely no doubt that AI will transform education. However, we don’t know exactly how it will change. I’m not going to make predictions, but I know what I’d like to see happen for both students and educators if we get things right. I also want to talk about assessments, because that’s a key part of what will drive Betty to a better future. I would like to see Betty as very self-effective. She understands where she wants to go. She knows how she wants to learn and is encouraged to master learning and knowledge. She will have become highly AI-literate and know how to use AI technologies to be the most effective learner that she can be. This will help her understand herself and allow her to build strong meta-cognitive skills to assist her learning but also to improve her understanding of her world. Betty will also be supported by an assessment system that helps her to do all of that. I would like to see the subject
Above: Panellists on the main stage at BETT included Lord Jim Knight, Rowena Chung, Prof Rose Luckin and Minh Ngan Tran
“ Learning to struggle is very important in the world of AI because AI makes everything easier. If things are too easy, we don’t learn anything.”
LORD JIM KNIGHT, DIRECTOR OF SUKLAA LTD AND FORMER UK MINISTER FOR SCHOOLS, DIGITAL AND EMPLOYMENT
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disciplines as the medium through which she gains advanced and sophisticated thinking and learning skills, the kinds of things that AI is not so good at because we don’t want students learning the same things AI is already good at. She needs to be much more sophisticated in her learning and thinking. I see teachers being able to
orchestrate AI and identify the appropriate use of technologies for their students, in particular how these technologies can help Betty become the most effective learner she can be. So AI is very much in the background, supporting that learning process. I want to see teachers and
students being highly AI-literate, so Betty is really set up to be self- effective in the world and is able to prosper in an AI-enhanced world.
WHAT DOES THE CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE LOOK LIKE FOR HER? Lord Jim Knight: I think Betty will really look forward to getting to her classroom. The classroom will be a really special, human-centric place. Betty will have a learning device. We’ll probably have learnt by then that mobile phones and personal devices coming into the classroom doesn’t work but that learning devices are really important. Learning devices will be able to be used far more intuitively and be smartly controlled by teachers and educators to restrict certain types of content. I think the classroom will be a
place where tech does not constantly bother students with notifications and noise but instead acts as a very human and peaceful place. The flipped learning model
will have been fully embedded and Betty will have done her homework at home. Most of the instructional element of her learning will have happened at home, so she’ll come to school knowing what she’s supposed to know, with a teacher there to assess and understand what she has and hasn’t understood and who will leave her to struggle and problem solve. Learning to struggle is very
important in the world of AI because AI makes everything easier. If things are too easy, we don’t learn anything. Struggle is a fundamental part of learning. Teachers will be there to help and guide struggle in a way that feels constructive, social and collaborative and has an element of fun attached to it. Betty now wants to come to school because it’s full of joy and struggle.
WHAT WILL BE ESSENTIAL FOR THE FUTURE CLASSROOM? Rowena Chung: In 15 years from now I have no doubt AI will be well-integrated and embedded in all aspects of our life, whether that’s schools or work.
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