The UK plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence to reduce teachers’ workload_Eastern Fortune Network

The British government announced on August 28 local timePlanned investment of £4 million(about 37.6 million RMB),Support technology companies to develop artificial intelligence tools to reduce teachers’ workloadhelp with lesson preparation, homework marking and other matters.

The UK Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Education said in a press release that the government will invest 3 million pounds to create a “content library” containing curriculum guides, teaching materials and teaching assessment materials, and provide special access rights to technology companies, allowing them to use relevant data to train artificial intelligence models to generate “accurate, high-quality content, such as targeted and creative lesson plans and exercise books.” In addition, the government will invest 1 million pounds to reward creative developers. The winners will build artificial intelligence tools by the end of March 2025 to help teachers complete tasks such as marking homework and writing comments.

Science, Innovation and Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said the project was aimed at reducing the administrative burden on teachers.

Press release citationA survey by TeacherTapp, a British teacher survey application, said that nearly half of British teachers already use artificial intelligence tools to help them in their work, but these tools have not received specific training for teaching.Compared to these tools, using targeted teaching data to train AI models can increase accuracy from 67% to 92%, according to a study by the UK Department for Education.

A government-commissioned study on the British public’s attitudes towards artificial intelligence in education found that most parents believe that artificial intelligence can help teachers by freeing up more time for face-to-face communication with students. However, some people are worried that over-reliance on this technology will reduce direct interaction between teachers and students and affect students’ acquisition of important social and technical skills, “leading to some unexpected adverse consequences.”

Pepe Diasio, secretary general of the Association of Secondary School Principals, said that many schools in the UK have found it difficult to recruit and retain enough teachers in recent years due to salary and other issues. Artificial intelligence tools may help reduce the “huge” burden on teachers, but they cannot replace human expertise and the interaction between teachers and students.

(Source: CCTV News)

Source: CCTV News

Original title: The UK plans to promote the use of artificial intelligence to reduce teachers’ workload

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