There are new developments in AI in education every week. Our newsletter is here to keep track of, select and explain what really matters, so that teachers don’t have to do it on their own.
New lesson plan!
In the year that Portugal celebrates 50 years of democracy, teacher Ricardo Carvalho is joining in the celebrations with his Year 9 pupils at the Esgueira School Group (Portugal). He shared with AI goes to school that, as part of the Information and Communication Technology course he teaches, he invited the pupils to create conversational chatbots based on key historical figures who played a part in the 25 April 1974 revolution. The pupils researched, selected and verified information to train an AI model. Finally, their classmates tested the chatbots and provided feedback.
What teachers are saying
I’ve tried AI for things like student feedback and been very surprised.(…) So, I showed it to the students who were very impressed as well. And I said to them that morally I find that a bit weird. I’m not going to use AI grading with them. I want students to know that I’m working for them in terms of building relationships. I don’t want them to think that I just go home, press a button and the work gets marked.
I feel like a really important part of being a teacher is understanding your students and how they learn.(…) (Ben, Geography teacher, Brookdale High School, 30_10_24)
Selwyn, N. (2025, January 2). “The whole point is we’re trying to teach” – Pedagogical reflections on AI grading. Critical Studies of Education & Technology. https://criticaledtech.com/2025/01/02/the-whole-point-is-were-trying-to-teach-pedagogical-reflections-on-ai-grading/
Science
A scientific study reveals that lower AI literacy is associated with a greater propensity to use AI for all tasks, and to view AI as something magical, feeling a sense of wonder at its ability to perform tasks that appear to require exclusively human attributes. Efforts to demystify AI are important for its responsible adoption (Tully et al, 2025).
Tully, S. M., Longoni, C., & Appel, G. (2025). Lower artificial intelligence literacy predicts greater AI receptivity. Journal of Marketing, 89(5), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222429251314491
Events
Next: On 10 April, we’ll be at the Education Summit 2025 in Guimarães, taking part in the Artificial Intelligence panel: Marta Pinto, founder of AI goes to School, alongside Nuno Gomes, CEO of Growappy, and Bruna Neto, Pedagogical Director at Professores do Futuro. Full programme.
Past
Our first keynote of the year 2025 at Jornada Forum Schools & AI, Marta Pinto discussed ethics in AI and how schools can develop ethical approaches to the adoption of AI, involving the whole school community in the debate and promoting critical thinking when adopting AI in the classroom. Watch on YouTube.
We attended the 6th SEaD Conference – Artificial Intelligence and Education – on 11 March 2025, organised by the Distance Learning Section of the Portuguese Society for Educational Sciences. Watch on YouTube.
Marta Pinto was at the 1st Literary Festival of Penacova (Portugal), on February 21st, joining AI goes to School to the stage alongside researchers and school library teachers to reflect on the role of three powerful forms of literacy in the age of AI: information literacy, media literacy and AI literacy.
