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The Headline: 👉 Global learning is at a crossroads: learner outcomes have dropped sharply worldwide, and UNESCO projects a shortage of 44 million teachers by 2030. 👉 AI is positioned as *the* tool to save us from an impending education crisis BUT... 👉 The real "secret weapon" for improving education isn't the tech: it's the learning science we build into it. According to Google, the four biggest opportunities offered by AI in education are: 🔥 Learning Science at Scale – Embed evidence-based methods (retrieval practice, spaced repetition, active feedback) directly into everyday tools. 🔥 Making Anything Learnable – Adjust explanations, examples and complexity to meet each learner where they are. 🔥 Universal Access – Break down language, literacy and disability barriers through AI-powered translation and transformation. 🔥 Empowering Educators – Free up teacher time through AI-assisted lesson planning, resource creation and differentiation. Overall, Google's latest white paper signals an evolving ed-tech culture which centres on a more substantive partnership between ed & tech: 👉 Co-Creation: Google commits to investing in evidence-based approaches to learning design and development and to rigorous evaluation, pilot studies and educator-led research to test and demo impact. 👉 Collaborative Development: Google commits to working with schools, NGOs, researchers and learning scientists to co-design tools for learning. You can read the white paper in full using the link in comments. Happy innovating! Phil 👋 | 26 comments on LinkedIn

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