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I'm your host, Elise Hugh. No two humans learn in exactly the same way. So what might happen when

machines help us develop better tools to create personalized pathways to learning?

In this talk, AI education entrepreneur Priya Lakani shows us how a one-size-fits-all approach to the classroom

strains teachers and fails students and how, if properly designed, AI could amplify what students and teachers do best

and reveal how irreplaceable we humans truly are.

Twenty years ago, I founded a social enterprise. I wanted to change the world.

And we were funding millions of meals to the

underprivileged. We were providing tens of thousands of vaccines across parts of Africa,

and we were funding schools in the slums of India. Now, I thought that I was doing quite a good job

and having a lot of impact in all of these areas. Until one day, I was working with ministers in the UK,

and they said that 20% of students leave secondary schools in the UK,

and they're not able to read and write well enough.

Now, I thought with brick-and-mortar schools and qualified teachers,

if they're not able to do that in the UK,

then I'm not having the impact

what I wanted to have in those schools in the slums in India. So what's going on? What's the problem?

We need to fix it. So I went to schools. I went to schools and I asked lots of questions,

and I found two critical problems on the front line of education. The first is that they continue to have the one-size-fits-all delivery of education

to a classroom of around 30 to 35 people.

The second, I think you will agree with me,

should be headline news every single day.

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