Pupils attending a class at a children's computer coding training centre in Beijing. Apps infused with AI are being marketed to schools across the world and governments are rushing to embrace the technology, despite experts raising serious doubts. China is a huge booster of AI in the classroom and has a national strategy for digitising education, its centrepiece being a national education platform of tools and online courses. — AFP
PARIS: Apps infused with AI are being marketed to schools across the world and governments are rushing to embrace the technology, despite experts raising serious doubts.
The sector known as Ed Tech exploded during the Covid pandemic as schools closed to stop the spread of infection and millions of children were forced to learn in front of screens at home.
