Thirty years ago, Estonia launched Tiger Leap, a programme that put computers and the internet in every school and, in many ways, laid the groundwork for a digital society we have come to call e-Estonia.
Today, the country is attempting something just as ambitious with artificial intelligence (AI) in education. But the conditions are different this time.
When Tiger Leap started in 1996, neither the schools nor the students had the technology – everybody had to learn together. Now, the asymmetry runs the other way: the students have leaped, while the education system is catching up.In this episode of the Digital Government Podcast, Ivo Visak, CEO of AI Leap (TI-Hüpe), the national programme integrating artificial intelligence into Estonian high schools, Visak makes the case for why treating AI in schools as an intervention rather than an experiment is the only responsible path forward.
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