ChatGPT helped teachers and data scientists this week to write school behaviour policies, produce newsletters for parents – and even explore how it might tailor revision based on a pupil’s answer to mock exam questions.
But it wasn’t for real. The scenarios were part of a government-sponsored “hackathon” in London.
Tech experts and school leaders discussed how large-language AI models could use education, health and care plan data to generate worksheets based on a pupil’s needs, and act as a personal assistant for language students.
Schools Week joined education secretary Gillian Keegan and academies minister Baroness Barran at the event, held at the London headquarters of Faculty AI, to hear about potential solutions to teacher workload.
