The framework, revised by the national AI taskforce, was unanimously adopted at an education ministers meeting on Thursday. It will be released in the coming weeks.“We’ve got to learn how to use it,” he said. “Private schools are using it now. Kids are using it right across the country. They’re using it to do their homework … we’re playing catch-up, to be honest, here.
But in a communique released on Friday morning, ministers confirmed that state and territories and non-government schooling sectors would work with their own education systems to implement the framework from term 1 next year. Clare told the Today show that while legitimate concerns remained, the system risked becoming inequitable if use was restricted to the independent and Catholic sector.
It warned countries needed to set their own terms for how technology was designed and used in education amid rapid developments in artificial intelligence. “The question will be how do we operationalise [the taskforce] and support teachers and schools to deal with the challenges.”