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Department for Education
5 developments involving Department for Education in 1 country or body. The most recent is England funds a £3m lesson-plan data store for AI teaching tools, plus £1m in prizes, 28 Aug 2024.
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- England funds a £3m lesson-plan data store for AI teaching tools, plus £1m in prizes
AI firms building tools for English schools get government-approved training data, and teachers get marking tools paid for through prizes.
- UK education department maps which jobs and courses AI is most likely to affect
Colleges, training providers and careers advisers in the UK got official estimates of which courses lead into AI-exposed jobs.
- UK puts up to £2 million into Oak National Academy’s AI lesson tools for teachers
Teachers in England got state-funded AI planning tools aimed at cutting workload, built on a public curriculum dataset that AI developers could use.
- England’s education department asks teachers and experts for evidence on generative AI
Teachers, schools and edtech firms in England fed the government’s later AI-in-education policy and funding decisions through this exercise.
- England’s education department publishes its position on generative AI in schools
Schools and colleges in England got a government reference point on generative AI within four months of ChatGPT’s release, and later DfE guidance and funding built on it.