The Fourth Education Revolution: Will Artificial Intelligence liberate or infantilise humanity? - Softcover

Seldon, Anthony; Abidoye, Oladimeji

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190868495X ISBN 13: 9781908684950

Publisher: University of Buckingham Press, 2018

Synopsis

Nothing matters more than education if we are to see AI liberate, not infantilise humanity.

Highly respected British educational scholar, Sir Anthony Seldon, explores the most important issue facing education (and humanity at large): the fast approaching revolution in Artificial Intelligence or AI. This book is a call to educators everywhere to open their eyes so that we can begin shaping the future of education around the world.

Britain and the US have an excellent education system in their schools and universities... but it is tailored to the twentieth century. The factory mass teaching methods of the last educational era have failed to conquer enduring problems of inequity and unfairness. Students have to make progress at a set rate which can demotivates and bore some. Will the AI revolution be able to remedy these problems?

This extended thesis explores the history of education, the many different styles of education (with a particular focus on Britain and the USA), and the different types of intelligence for which current teaching methods are unable to provide any support.

The final part of the book covers the possibilities for how we can adapt our methods to new technologies, using Sir Anthony's innovative ten-part model of education as a framework.

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Review

Sir Anthony Seldon comprehensively demonstrates how AI and other new technologies can be introduced into the education sector to deliver a much more personalised education responsive to student needs and fit for the future. For all of us, whether in Secondary, Further or Higher Education he has set us the challenge and we now need to rise to it. --Tim Clement-Jones

I have just finished my second reading of your latest book and there is so much red underlining that it looks as if I ve haemorrhaged over it. I am astounded by your breadth of vision and you cover it so well, with such imagination and such care, while every now and then a short, simple sentence jumps off the page in its simplicity and importance. I wish that everyone in Britain could - and would - read this book. --Shirley Conran

I have finished your book on AI . It is really a wonderful book and opened my mind. I think the book will be a great service to education and understanding AI, especially because you made it accessible for all to read. Very best wishes Yours in utilitarian friendship :) --Robert Halfon

About the Author

Currently Vice-Chancellor of Buckingham University, Sir Anthony Seldon is a former head of a leading independent school. He is regarded as one of the most authoritative high profile commentators on education and his views are frequently sought by the government and political parties. A champion of digital learning and of bridging the divide between state and independent sectors, he is also a pre-eminent political biographer and contemporary historian.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Buckingham Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190868495X
• ISBN 13: 9781908684950
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 370