AI in education and machine learning – “the digital inspector”

This is the third in a series of six posts looking at how we might apply aspects of artificial intelligence to the particular case of education. It follows on from posts on predictive analysis and machine learning. In reality, the terms covered all overlap, but I use them in this series separately and distinctively as…

AI in education and deep learning – ‘the digital school art/music/writing room’

This is the second post in a series of six that discuss how we might conceptualise artificial intelligence in terms of education. It follows on from a post about predictive analysis, which I have categorised as 'the digital school bursar'. All the terms in this series overlap to some extent, but I have created intellectual…

AI in education and predictive analysis – “the Digital School Bursar”

This post relates to a presentation I gave during a symposium for the British Educational Research Association in September 2019, and at a similar one at Oxford University in November 2019. There is a related paper due out in a special issue of the London Review of Education in summer 2020. It is the first…

What keeps me awake at night? The convergence of AI and biometrics in education

I recently gave a talk at the Privacy Expert Group meeting of the Biometrics Institute in London, on what keeps me awake at night. For me, it's the rapid convergence of biometrics with artificial intelligence, and its application to education with little or no regulation.  One example is the proliferation of digital school textbooks. There's…