“There are a dozen HMC schools using AI systems and more that are seriously looking at it,” he said.
#SHOULD SCHOOLS GO PAPERLESS TRIAL#
He said elite private schools could trial new technologies to see what works, and then the model could be rolled out nationally. Mike Buchanan, executive director of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC), which represents 296 of the country's leading private schools including Eton College and Harrow School, said earlier this year that GCSEs can be a “very dry diet” for some students. Wolverhampton Grammar School counts the former governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King and the rocket inventor Sir William Congreve among its former pupils, who are known as “Old Wulfurins”.įounded in 1512 as a school for boys to provide a “good, moral education” for the children of Wolverhampton, it is now fully co-educational.Ī private school chief has predicted that GCSEs could be replaced by artificial intelligence in the future. We need to be looking towards the future.” “But the world has changed and is changing really quickly. Mrs Crewe-Reed said that all schools could benefit from going paperless, adding: “A lot of schools are still delivering education in the same way we received it. It allows users to get used to the technology using familiar materials and start to enhance their lessons at their own pace. But even then, the pages are photographed and stored on the iPads. There is no handing out books or sheets of paper, nothing can get lost.”Įvery student has one “universal exercise book” just in case they wish to write “in the old fashioned way”, the headteacher said. All worksheets are on the iPad at the press of a button. It’s during those months-October, November-that I don't feel the rush to grade by a hard deadline. “Pupils can write digitally or type on their iPads too. By Kerry Gallagher (Columnist) Kerry Gallagher As I close in on the final weeks of the school year, I'm buried in research papers, projects, and data-yet I can't help but feel slightly nostalgic for the early months of the school year. Science experiments and class discussions can be filmed and recorded digitally. “Everything is stored digitally on iPads, nothing is lost. “We are trying to prepare our students for a distant future where, ultimately, writing and reading might be a thing of the past,” Mrs Crewe-Read told The Telegraph. Pupils at Wolverhampton Grammar School aged between nine and 14 now use iPads in every lesson rather than exercise books and textbooks.
Since most offices are now paperless there is no reason why schools should not emulate this approach, she said.
Exercise books are “old fashioned”, a leading headmistress has said as she urges schools to follow her lead and become “paperless”.Ĭhildren need to be “prepared for the future, not for the past”, according to Kathy Crewe-Read, head of the £14,000-a-year Wolverhampton Grammar School.
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