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AI and the future of education: disruptions, dilemmas and directions : Shared by Niloufar Pourzand


AI and the Future of Education: Disruptions, Dilemmas and Directions

UNESCO

Summary
This 2025 UNESCO anthology, launched during Digital Learning Week, gathers 21 think pieces on how AI is disrupting education. It highlights both promise and peril: AI can personalize learning and reshape assessment, but risks deepening inequality with one-third of humanity still offline. The book emphasizes keeping teachers central, embedding ethics and human rights in design, and fostering global dialogue to ensure AI serves equity and inclusion. The publication is available through UNESCO’s portal.

Quotes

  • “AI is entering education not quietly, but as a disruptive force, stirring hope, unease and tension.”

  • “Access to the most cutting-edge AI models is reserved for those with subscriptions, infrastructure and linguistic advantage.”

  • “Building a new social contract for education … places the transformative agency of human learners and teachers at the centre.”

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