More than 700 schools have signed up for Thursday’s AI Awareness Day. The bar is deliberately low.
National AI Awareness Day on 4 June asks schools to commit to just one activity. More than 500,000 students are already expected to take part. The idea is simple, yet the problem it is trying to solve, that most schools are stuck between doing nothing and doing too much, is very real.
National AI Awareness Day takes place this Thursday, 4 June, in what its organisers describe as the first nationwide campaign designed to build AI literacy across UK schools. Launched by Mark Martin MBE at the Bett Show in January, the initiative is based around a deliberately low bar: schools commit to running just one activity, whether an assembly, a discussion in tutor group, a lesson starter or a creative challenge. More than 700 schools have signed up, with organisers estimating that more than 500,000 students will take part. It’s hoped the figure will reach one million before the year en