Education experts stress importance of human emotions before classroom AI at WISE 12

Doha, Qatar:Education experts have stressed the need to put human emotions in classrooms before building technology for children and teachers. They...

Doha, Qatar: Education experts have stressed the need to put human emotions in classrooms before building technology for children and teachers.

They noted that Artificial Intelligence, AI, is regarded as a knowledge accelerator, catalyst and partnership builder in education, that acknowledge personalised learning, enables teachers to spend more time teaching and less time creating lesson plans as well as measure learning outcomes better and more efficiently.

This call was made yesterday at an interactive workshop on the theme “Responsible AI in Education: The Evidence we need to build, scale and trust it – led by the Gates Foundation and Global Schools” at The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE), a Qatar Foundation initiative.

The two-day summit held under the theme ‘Humanity.io: Human Values at the Heart of Education’ is on at Qatar National Convention Centre.

Edtech and AI lead at Gates Foundation, Jawad Ashgar opined that there is an urgent need to accelerate learning as there are millions of students who are not able to perform at the level that they are expected to.