Schools are using ChatGPT and Claude for lesson planning. The DfE now has the data to prove it.
New government research into what schools use, rather than what is sold to them, finds rapid take up of general-purpose AI tools sitting alongside established platforms such as Arbor MIS, Kerboodle and CPOMS. Management systems get used every day. Personalised learning tools get used alone, outside school hours.
The Department for Education’s updated EdTech market assessment, published this month and based on research by the consultancy PUBLIC, includes the most detailed publicly available picture of how schools actually use technology day to day. The demand-side analysis draws on granular usage data from EdTech Impact across a sample of schools within a large multi-academy trust and is supplemented by interviews with 20 schools. Management and administrative technologies show the highest and most consistent usage of any category, reflecting their role as core operational infrastructure rather than op