Teachers will use “deepfake” technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school
Staff at the Great Schools Trust will create the avatars – which look and sound just like them – using an AI video generator
They will be used to set out content children have missed, for instance after being absent or suspended
This is one that is clearly going to divide opinion - below is an actual ‘deepfake’ video of a real teacher the school made for us
Above is a video the school made for us. Link to story in bio.
What do you think?
Teachers at schools in the north west will use “deepfake” technology to create an AI avatar of themselves to deliver catch-up lessons for pupils who have missed school
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The proportion of top GCSE grades handed out to 16-year-olds in England has dropped by 17 per cent, falling to near the same level as pre-pandemic 2019.
Overall, more than 184,000 fewer 9, 8 and 7 grades were awarded this summer, despite an increase in entries of more than 171,000.
This year, 22.4 per cent of grades issued were between 9 and 7, down from 27 per cent last year.
This summer’s top grades are 25 per cent lower than the peak of 30 per cent in 2021, when teacher assessed grades were awarded due to the pandemic.
The proportion of top grades is now within 0.6 percentage points of pre-pandemic 2019, when 21.8 per cent were at 7 or above.
Across England, 5 per cent of grades issued to 16-year-olds were the highest grade – 9. This is down 26 per cent on last year and 35 per cent lower than the peak in 2021. In pre-pandemic 2019, 4.7 per cent of grades were 9s.
The drop in top grades was expected. Ofqual asked exam boards to return to pre-pandemic grading standards this year. Some GCSE subjects had exam aids such as formulae and equation sheets to help mitigate learning loss.
🗳️As an election eeks closer, political attack lines on education are starting to emerge
Education secretary Gillian Keegan this weekend took aim at Labour’s track record and its plans should it form the next government
As well as criticising the Welsh Labour government and the party’s private school tax plans, Keegan bigged up her party’s own record on teacher numbers and funding
The claims are likely to form an important part of election campaigning on education, but do they stand up to scrutiny?
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😬 Nerves continue their steady upwards ascent as students await the arrival of their A-level and GCSE results. But is exam-anxiety really justified? Or are today’s students simply a bunch of ‘snowflakes’?
These ‘snowflakes students’ are so-called because of their apparent lack of resilience, grit, and good old fashioned stiff upper lip. They are the generation who have endured the greatest disruption to their education in modern peacetime, the largest fall in living standards on record and are set to enter the fastest-changing labour market history has ever known.
Rising rates of mental health conditions among them should not be misconstrued as over-sensitivity. Instead, they should signal the severe detriment these unprecedented pressures have inflicted upon their development and wellbeing. They deserve our empathy, not our stigma.
For the many disadvantaged pupils I have taught, and from my own experience of childhood on a council estate, academic success seems the only clear route to improving your future.
While suggesting students can enjoy exam preparation might be a stretch. I have seen countless times how a focus on technique can instantly placate nerves and restore confidence among even the most seemingly disengaged pupils. Hacking into examiners’ mindsets, they become eager to attempt questions, confident that marks are well within their reach. Regular testing and using the mark scheme as a roadmap reinforces that success is attainable.
It won’t be enough to level the playing field, but at least our disadvantaged students won’t be starting from behind the blocks.
❓Analysis published by the membership organisation for local authorities has claimed council schools outperform academies
But our fact check has found there are some *big* flaws in the main findings picked out by the Local Government Association (LGA), which have been seized on to call for a return of new council schools and to criticise the government’s academy reforms.
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