Dan and Ray have been keeping an eye on how the press write about AI in education, and this week they talk about how the media write about AI for education projects, and discuss their personal perspective on the stories themselves, as well as the way that the media cover it. From "fears teachers could be replaced by robots" and "could robots do your job" to "exams could be replaced by AI in the future", there's plenty of headlines designed to get you to click and read, and in the podcast we're going deeper than the headline.

 

The articles discussed are:

• Under digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of kidshttps://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle
• Under AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter Studentshttps://www.wsj.com/video/under-ais-watchful-eye-china-wants-to-raise-smarter-students/C4294BAB-A76B-4569-8D09-32E9F2B62D19.html
• Exams could be replaced by artificial intelligence in the future, private school chief predictshttps://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/04/exams-could-replaced-artificial-intelligence-future-private/
• Artificial intelligence in Schools: An Ethical Storm is Brewinghttps://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=4325
• 'Software never has a day off sick': fears teachers could be replaced by robotshttps://www.smh.com.au/education/software-never-has-a-day-off-sick-fears-teachers-could-be-replaced-by-robots-20190905-p52ocn.html
• Could a robot do your job?https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/could-a-robot-do-your-job-artificial-intelligence/8782174
• Where exactly are we with AI in higher education?https://www.studyinternational.com/news/ai-higher-education-2019/