School introduces UK's first 'teacherless' classroom using artificial intelligence

this is about to become the UK's first teacher classroom where 20 GCSE students will spend the year being taught by artificial intelligence instead of human

teachers what we're attempting to do is to use AI in key subjects at GCSE the three Sciences maths uh and

English and computer science and possibly geography the platforms learn what each student excels in and what they need more help with and then it adapts their lessons for the term strong

topics are moved to the end of term so they can be revised while weak topics will be tackled more immediately and each student's lesson plan is bespoke to them GCSE students have been testing out

the new tech teachers don't know exactly precisely what I'm unable and able to do where the AI can just figure out just by

a few questions what I'm weak in and what are my strong points and if helps me develop into a much um smarter student although there won't

be teachers in the classroom there will be three learning coaches to help with behavior and softer subjects that AI might struggle with they're not being taught subjects by the Learning coaches

but we are covering soft skills like uh public speaking debate and the really important personal aspects of a person that you really want to bring out and develop and turning young people into

young adults some people disagree and say removing teachers from the equation will harm students in the long run Chris McGovern was a head teacher and an educational adviser to number 10 now he

campaigns against ideas like this children will lose a great deal from that AI experience they need to have teachers they need to interact with other children and that's fundamental the problem with the AI and the computer

screen is that it is a machine and it's inert so you're straight away dehumanizing the process of learning it's a soulless Bleak future if it's

going to be along the AI path only last year the department for Education said teachers are irreplaceable an AI could never be a substitute for teachers professional judgment and the personal

relationship they have with their pupils this school seems to disagree comp there are many excellent teachers out there and we have many here at the college but

um we're all fallible if you really want to know exactly why a child is not learning I think the AI systems can pinpoint that more effectively Mickey

Carol Sky News