Most Australian states initially banned ChatGPT -- and other generative AI tools -- in government schools. But since then -- many jurisdictions have reconsidered their stance -- and schools have started trialling their own AI tools, believing the benefits of AI outweigh the significant risks and challenges. Schools in South Australia were among the first -- beginning their trial towards the end of last year.
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00:00The government developed their own AI tool because of the worries about student privacy
00:08and security.
00:09So about more than a year ago, they developed their own tool called AdChat.
00:15And that tool is being used first in eight schools, then in the second round of trial
00:20in additional eight schools.
00:22And now the last I know is that the government will be expanding the rollout of this tool
00:29to even more schools.
00:31So effectively, the point of this trial was really to learn how to use AI, because honestly,
00:38it's a very new technology.
00:40Nobody knows what's the best way to use it.
00:42So the goal of the initial trial was, let's see what teachers are making use of it, how
00:47it's impacting the learning, what they can do with this, rather than trying to enforce
00:52a very specific way of using the tool before we know what's the best way to do that.
00:57Effectively used in the classroom, first of all, it's used by teachers for a bunch
01:01of different activities to generate materials, to personalize learning, to help them within
01:06time management, all of the things that are very beneficial for them.
01:10Also being used by students as well in different learning activities, to brainstorm ideas,
01:16to stop the roadblock, and also importantly, used while they're home, because the tool
01:23has been available to them 24-7.
01:25So it's very beneficial for them when there are no teachers around at 10 p.m., they can
01:30use the tool and get some feedback, get some support from AI.
01:35The first tool in South Australia would do that, in a sense.
01:39You could ask it to do that, but it's been obviously against the rules.
01:43But the tool itself didn't have limitation on something like that, because it would do
01:50what you're asking him to do.
01:51But obviously, teachers would know that.
01:53So the focus was more on, let's see what we can learn from interaction, rather than try
02:00to limit and make a very specific version of the tool.
02:03New South Wales government did a bit later, earlier this year, they started trialing.
02:09They did another version, they took a different approach, where they actually just built a
02:14tutoring system.
02:15So it's much more restrictive, but of course it took them more time to do that, and technology
02:22changed in the meantime.
02:23The point is, they still can use it at home, even if the department is limiting this one.
02:28Everybody can sign up for ChatterJPT at home and use it for writing their assignments.
02:32So that's really, that's not going to save it anyway.