New Delhi: As the world grapples with the rise of Artificial Intelligence and its ripple effects across fields, Norway has announced a near complete ban on the technology for its younger populace effective from the upcoming academic year starting late August.
“The uncritical use of AI causes students to skip important learning steps,” Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said in a press conference Friday, announcing his government’s plan to come up with national recommendations on age guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in schools.A Nordic country, Norway is known for its strong emphasis on education with schools placing emphasis on values such as equality, inclusion, and sustainability. Its education system is universally recognised for being highly inclusive and free of charge.
The new move is in contrast to India, where policymakers are systematically integrating AI into school education.According to the new Norwegian basic framework, students from grade 1 through 7, aged from 6 to 13, should, ‘as a general principle’, not be using AI at all. AI tools can be used, with caution, by lower secondary school students, aged 14 to 16, under the supervision of their teachers. Only in the senior grades should students learn the use of AI so as to prepare them for further education and work.“The most important thing in school is that our children learn to read, write and do mathematics,” Stoere said.he AI ban is not the only educational reform being introduced by Norway in the new school year. Teachers are being reinstated with greater authority “to manage teaching and behaviour”.The use of computers and tablets, in use in Norwegian classrooms since the 1990s, will be reduced, with the government announcing plans to fund the use of more books and physical aids.Indian approach
