Parents Want AI in Schools: Navigating AI in Education

AI in Education: A Pedagogical Perspective ———————————————————————- If a teacher is allowed to use Dola, Copilot, ChatGPT, or any other AI tools that you can name in their teaching practice, why is a student not allowed to use AI tools to do their work in the classroom? I don’t know if anyone has already adopted this practice of allowing learners to use these tools. Unfortunately, I haven’t tried it yet in any of my lessons. Students are strictly following the classroom rules, where they are not allowed to use mobiles during the lesson, let alone copying or cheating with ChatGPT or any other tool. Now, the progression of AI is simply unstoppable. Every single day, it is opening a new chapter. It is introducing a new era for modern humanity. Therefore, the question that haunts us is: will AI outbeat us and take over the control of everything? Will it gain consciousness and take control from a conscious being? Why would you not think that the education system is its prime target, where the learners are its main source of energy?

Teachers are using AI weekly. Almost none have been told how. A September 2026 IBM study found that 76% of middle school educators and 73% of high school educators use AI weekly. Yet only 20% have received substantial training, while 82% work without formal school guidance. Stanford’s AI Index reports that just 6% of teachers say their school’s AI policy is clear. This is not a teacher problem. It is a leadership one. The tool arrived before the policy. Education leaders need to: Define what AI use is permitted and encouraged. Provide meaningful, ongoing training, not a one-off session. Keep a human accountable for decisions affecting learning. Protect student and staff data by design. Review guidance as evidence, risks and practice evolve. The advantage will go to the organisation people trust to use AI wisely, not simply the organisation that adopts it first. School, nursery and education SME leaders: what is the biggest gap in your organisation right now, policy, training or confidence?

One of the most important questions around AI in education is not what the technology can do. It's what teachers need to do their jobs better with it. AI adoption will be strongest when it augments professional judgement rather than undermining it. #AI #Education #Leadership #FutureOfWork

62% of students use AI for homework. 67% of them think it's making them worse at thinking. They use it anyway. RAND surveyed over 1,000 students earlier this year. The numbers are striking — not because students don't know what's happening, but because knowing doesn't change the behavior. So if awareness isn't the answer, what is? A study published last month gives a clue. Researchers ran a randomized experiment with 6,000 middle school students in Tennessee. They tested what happens when you combine an AI tutor with mastery learning — a simple rule: make a mistake, and you have to answer the same type of question correctly three times before you can move on. Results: scores went up. Not dramatically — about 3 points. But the gap between AI alone and AI with structure was clear. The AI tutor didn't help by giving students answers. It helped by making them slow down, work through the mistake, and stay with the problem longer. Remove the structure, and the advantage disappears. This is the design decision most institutions miss. They ask: "Should we allow AI?" They should be asking: "What does the system require the student to actually do?" AI that answers - isn't teaching or helping students. AI that makes you earn the next step - might be.

AI should outsource the doing, not the thinking! One of the reasons I am excited about AI in education is not because it can do more work for teachers. It is because, used thoughtfully, it can give teachers more time to do the work that matters most. AI can help draft a lesson. Differentiate a resource. Generate ideas. Adapt a text. Create a first draft. But the teacher still needs to ask: Is this appropriate for my learners? Is it pedagogically sound? Does it align with my objective? What needs to change? What does my professional judgement tell me? That distinction matters. The goal should not be to make teachers less involved in teaching. It should be to reduce the amount of time they spend on repetitive tasks so they can spend more time thinking, designing, responding, connecting and teaching. In other words: Let AI help with the doing. Let educators remain responsible for the thinking. That, to me, is a much healthier starting point for conversations about AI in education. Because the future of education should not be AI instead of teachers. It should be AI helping good teachers do even more meaningful work. #AIinEducation #Education #EdTech #TeacherDevelopment #ArtificialIntelligence #FutureOfEducation

Are Future Teachers Ready for AI? Artificial intelligence is quickly becoming part of everyday education. Yet one important question still hangs in the air: Are the teachers of tomorrow actually prepared to use it well and responsibly? Just having access to tools like ChatGPT, Gemini or other AI applications doesn’t automatically mean a teacher knows how to use them in a meaningful way in the classroom. Digital competence helps teachers navigate technology, but AI raises a different set of questions. How do we evaluate the information AI produces? How do we protect students’ privacy? How do we use AI without weakening critical thinking? And how can AI support real learning instead of simply making tasks easier? These questions point to something I find genuinely important: the relationship between teachers’ digital competence and their readiness to bring AI into teaching in thoughtful, pedagogical ways. As AI continues to develop, teacher education may need to go further than teaching future teachers how to use digital tools. It should also help them understand when, why and how AI should be used and when it shouldn’t. This is an area I’m particularly interested in exploring as part of my academic journey in Higher Education. The question I keep coming back to is this: If we are preparing teachers for the future, are we preparing them for an education system shaped by AI?

AI in the Classroom — more than just a technology conversation I recently spent some time exploring the AI in the Classroom discussions at the National Education Summit and one thing really stood out to me. The conversation around AI in education shouldn't simply be “Should we use AI?” The more important question is: How do we use it responsibly and meaningfully to improve teaching and learning? AI has the potential to support teachers in many practical ways — from reducing repetitive administrative work, to helping create more personalised learning experiences and providing students with additional support when they need it. But I believe the biggest opportunity is not about replacing teachers. It is about giving teachers better tools so they can spend more time doing what technology cannot replace — understanding their students, mentoring them, encouraging them, building relationships and creating meaningful learning experiences. At the same time, schools need to think carefully about privacy, ethics, equity, teacher capability and responsible use of AI. Giving people access to AI without the right understanding and guidance can create as many challenges as opportunities. For me, the real challenge for educational leaders is therefore not simply adopting AI. It is about building the right culture, policies, skills and safeguards around it. Our students are going to enter a world where AI will be part of everyday life and work. Education has an important role in preparing them not just to use AI, but to think critically about it, question it, verify information and use it responsibly. The future of AI in education is not AI replacing people. It is people using AI thoughtfully to enhance education. #AIinEducation #ArtificialIntelligence #Education #FutureOfEducation #EducationalLeadership #DigitalLearning #EdTech #AIintheClassroom

“The AI education gap isn't between students.” It may be between students and teachers. Students are already experimenting with AI. But are educators getting the same opportunity? Recent 2026 research from Instructure found that 90% of students surveyed use AI, while fewer than half of educators reported formal AI training. That creates an interesting problem. Students are learning with AI. Teachers are still figuring out how to teach with AI. The solution isn't to keep AI away from classrooms. It may be to make sure teachers understand it deeply enough to guide its use. Because the future of AI in education won't be built only by technologists. It will be built by teachers who know how learning actually works. #adhyaapak.ai #caayushahuja #ai #education #students #teachers

In our latest blog, Co-Founder Alex Russell explores why AI literacy should become an educational entitlement for every pupil. With technological advancements already changing the lives of young people, it's crucial schools and trusts integrate AI literacy into their curriculum. At AiEd, we believe that educational response to AI must be more ambitious than either permission or prohibition. We need an AI education that allows pupils to safely use AI and truly understand its nuances and impact so that they are prepared for the future. 👉 Read the full blog here: https://lnkd.in/eG96g8WK

Every boardroom is talking about AI literacy, training and safety. Now we need every classroom to do the same. Inspiring morning with these brilliant young people at The British Library hearing their hopes and fears about AI in education. They're excited to embrace AI, experiment and innovate. If used well, AI can accelerate their learning. It's an extraordinary personal tutor and intellectual sparring partner. But they're also worried about AI replacing critical thinking, bullying via deepfakes, chatbots as friends and a lack of any classroom guidance. They're asking for rules of the road. Just this week More in Common UK and the team at Wellington College Education published polling showing that a majority of parents and young people want national guidance for AI in education. Currently there's no clear framework for AI use in schools. And the UK is not alone. This is a global issue. We’re spending so much time in the corporate world deploying AI and learning how to use it well. Their big question back to me: why aren't we doing this at lightning speed in our classrooms? #AI #AIliteracy #education #schools