Originality in the time of plagiarism
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has highlighted the issue of plagiarism, with Large Language Models (LLM) overwhelming education at all levels as the incessant AI cheating versus detection battle rages on.
Author: Mike Douse
Enjoyment or employment: Third Millennium education’s paramount objective
More and more, across the world, education is being geared to employment. The workplace is rapidly colonising the classroom. Enjoyment is being outlawed in favour of relevance.
Forbidding the fundamental: the futile absurdity of banning smartphones from classrooms
Countries across the world (and international agencies that should know better) are calling for the outlawing of smartphones from schools. In this UKFIET Blog, Mike Douse explains how, in the Digital Age, this is the very opposite of what should be happening.
Education and Artificial Intelligence: Four conferences and acute myopia
Numerous dignitaries, academics and salespeople (but thus far no robots) are flocking to copious conferences, sundry seminars and voluminous workshops focussed on Education and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
Speaking about education: The need to foster communication skills
Schools give specific support to children with speech difficulties and they pay particular attention to students who will enter public speaking and debating contests, thereby bringing glory to their institutions. But, for the vast majority in the middle, spoken communication is not on the curriculum and, across the world, the…
Artificial Intelligence University: The University of the Cyber Age
Growing numbers of universities worldwide are offering programmes in Artificial Intelligence. In this UKFIET Blog, Mike Douse describes a very different kind of higher educational institution: one that is based upon and applies AI in all of its actions.
Longtermism versus Third Millennium Education
This UKFIET Blog is contributed by Mike Douse who accepts that scanning the far horizon sensibly can be a valuable means of keeping immediate challenges in perspective, yet calls upon teachers, learners and planners to be healthily sceptical about all mega-philosophies, and believes that education, as currently evolving, will be…
Teachers in 2040: Far fewer but much more effective and substantially better rewarded
This article, based on a recent conference presentation, is contributed by Mike Douse, who explores how education’s forthcoming fundamental transformation will result in far fewer teachers worldwide, with each of them facilitating learning much more effectively, and all deserving and hopefully receiving substantially greater remuneration and intangible rewards than in…