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The UK has begun trialing 'teacherless' GCSE classes, using artificial intelligence instead of human teachers. David Game College, a £27,000 per year private school, will have 20 students using AI and virtual reality headsets. The platform will learn what the student performs well at and schedule

Two state secondary schools in England are equipping teachers with body cameras that will monitor students' behaviour. The trial technology is being promoted by Reveal, a company that supplies body cameras to police forces and hospitals. One school in Hampshire, Reveal claimed, said that the

Children's experience of technology could be at risk of significant change due to their interaction with chatbots, UNICEF has said, due to their global availability, persuasive power, and greater sycophancy compared to humans. While AI chatbots could be used for learning or as entertainment, they

Udemy has begun using instructor-created courses to train its generative AI, automatically enrolling teachers following a brief opt-out period. That window has now closed, leaving many unable to withdraw consent, sparking anger over Udemy's processes. Some instructors, including long-time

Popular educational apps have access to reams of private data that could result in privacy and security violations, a new study has found. 25 apps were tested, with many found to request access to the users’ camera, calendar, location, contacts, and the ability to record audio, among other

Public documents show that US school districts have for years been buying phone cracking tools from companies like Cellebrite and Oxygen Forensics. The equipment enables school district employees to search students’ personal devices. In one example, the Los Angeles Unified School District says its

The Delhi government is expected to introduce facial recognition in schools in order to improve attendance, which is hovering at 65-70%. The government also proposes to provide parents with monthly attendance reports and introduce monthly and weekly tests in order to keep students engaged. Educators

With the use of ChatGPT already well established among students technology companies are coaching teachers on using AI tools to save substantial time on tasks such as grading, providing student feedback, and planning lessons, which reports say take up to 50 hours a week. Teachers are uncertain

A new report finds that monitoring software is in wide use in US K-12 schools, and that teachers, parents, and students generally believe the benefits outweigh the risks while still expressing some privacy and equity concerns. The authors recommend transparency, data minimisation, and mitigation of

An investigation finds that using search tools provided by the College Board, the organisation that administers SATs and Advanced Placement exams for university-bound students, prompts it to send details of SAT scores, grade point averages, and other data to Facebook, TikTik, and other companies via

A student in Minneapolis was outed when their parents were contacted by school administrators when surveillance software found LGBTQ keywords in their writing on a school-supplied laptop. The risk of many more such cases is increasing as the use of edtech spread, fuelled by the pandemic, and

An administrative court in Montreil, France issued a preliminary ruling ordering the Paris-based Distance Learning Institute to suspend its use of the e-proctoring platform TestWe, which uses facial recognition and algorithmic analysis to monitor students.Video and sound analysis track students' eye

An app used by more than 100 Bristol schools has raised concern among criminal justice and anti-racism campaigners that the easy access it gives safeguarding leads to pupils' and their families' contacts with police, child protection, and welfare services risks increasing discrimination against

UK government ministers are seeking to ensure schools benefit financially from any future use of pupils’ data by large language models such as those behind ChatGPT and Google Bard. Data from the national pupil database is already available to third-party organisations. The BCS head of education

The UK's Behavioural Insights ("Nudge") Unit has trialled machine learning models to help automate some decisions made by regulators such as Ofsted (schools), and the Care Quality Commission (health and social care in England). The resulting algorithm uses data such as the number of children are on

The UK’s education watchdog, Ofsted, is considering checking pupils’ and parents’ social media pages to ensure that schools maintain their standards. Privacy campaigners oppose the plan as overreach, while representatives of teachers’ unions warned the information would be unreliable. https://inews