Great to be at Jesus College in Cambridge for the HP Cambridge Partnership for Education EdTech Fellowship Residency Week with the Latin American cohort. The session provided a valuable opportunity to share Education Futures’ work on practical AI implementation in education systems, with a particular focus on our approach to addressing the 2025 inflection point where national AI curricula are becoming standard and the field is shifting from AI literacy to meaningful integration across subjects. Hearing about the fellows’ diverse AI projects was particularly illuminating – their initiatives highlighted both the tremendous opportunities emerging in their contexts and the very real implementation challenges they’re grappling with, from infrastructure gaps and connectivity issues to questions around cultural relevance and data sovereignty.
The discussions around Cambridge University Press & Assessment’s AI initiatives sparked productive exchanges, particularly around our three-pillar approach of providing contextually-appropriate training (for teachers, assessment professionals, and ministry leaders), developing purpose-built tools for different resource environments (like our WhatsApp-based support for South African teachers and the Maldives AI lesson planner), and embedding local context into everything we build. The fellows’ feedback on projects like our Kuwait Future Educators Programme and formative assessment workflows was invaluable, and we identified several concrete ways we can support each other going forward – from sharing our frameworks like the 7-Step AI Workflow and CRAFT prompting methodology to exploring how their local curriculum documents and cultural contexts could inform our next generation of tools. These kinds of collaborative conversations are exactly what’s needed as we work to ensure AI in education is implemented thoughtfully and equitably across diverse global contexts.