This article covers the first half of this two hour panel session with participants giving responses to questions posed by the British Parliament's Education Committee. The full session is interesting viewing. The panel was sometimes more about industry's role in education than the converse. It also looked at the role of AI in learning technology. And there was a good discussion of the role of technology in supporting students with disadvantages. The most interesting point came from Priya Lakhani as she described the disconnect between the speed of agile technology development and the lag created by randomized control testing.
She also hits the mark (at 10:48) when she lists the things students need that we don't test for: "The education system today is just not fit for purpose... we're forcing our amazing talented teachers to actually teach children into specific mold for tests. If we're going to test, that's all right, but we don't test for adaptability, we don't test for creativity, we don't test for learning agility, we don't test for empathy. With all the issues we know that social media is creating and all the well-being issues that our children are going to face, we don't actually test for any of that... There's so much pressure on teachers to deliver something that no employer is going to sit there and say 'thank you very much, you've memorized all of that, that's what we're employing for today'." Here presentation as a whole is a tour de force and worth taking seriously.
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