AI for Education

AI can support personalized learning by adapting content, surfacing practice opportunities, and helping educators identify where students may need additional support. It can also reduce administrative workload around routine educational processes.

Benefits of AI in Learning

Educators remain responsible for instruction, context, and student well-being. Effective systems should be transparent, accessible, and designed to augment teaching rather than replace human relationships.

Use a teacher-reviewed practice workflow

A practical pilot is to help a teacher prepare optional practice exercises for a specific lesson. The system uses approved learning objectives and materials to draft exercises, then the teacher checks correctness, accessibility, and suitability before sharing them. Keep the pilot separate from grading or decisions about student progression.

A practical pilot

  1. Choose one topic and define what a correct, age-appropriate exercise should contain.

  2. Review generated questions and explanations against the source material. Test ambiguous prompts and incorrect answers.

  3. Collect feedback from teachers and students, including whether the exercises actually address misunderstandings.

Controls and limitations

Minimize student information in prompts and provide an equivalent way to participate without the AI tool. A polished answer can still be wrong. Teachers should be able to edit or reject output and explain when assistance was used.

What to measure

Measure preparation time, correction frequency, accessibility issues, and evidence of learning against an existing approach. More generated exercises alone is not a useful success measure.

Explore custom AI workflows.

Further reading

UNESCO guidance on generative AI in education and research.