Three massive Primary ed movements, and a unique Australian example.
- Dane Smale
- 8 hours ago
- 1 min read
A manifesto if you like, depending on how revolutionary you are feeling.
Three things in the last six months have made it impossible to keep treating AI as somebody else's problem in Australian primary schools.
Alpha School in Texas has been demonstrating, with all its flaws, that a two-hour mastery-based academic day on AI tutoring and four hours of life skills is operationally viable.
Estonia launched AI Leap, putting purpose-built educational AI in front of twenty thousand high schoolers and three thousand teachers, with the rare design principle that the AI must ask Socratic questions rather than give answers.
The Castlereagh Statement put a national marker in the sand here about how Australian education needs to restructure for the AI era.
The PrimarAI School is a worked example of what Australian primary school could look like if you took all of them seriously at once.
Read it at www.primarai.com.au/theprimaraischool
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