Welcome to the AI Lab
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Featuring senior leaders and practitioners from the London and East of England EdTech hub
Event held @ 2nd October 2025
We explored alternative/innovative applications and perspectives on the role of Ai in Schools.
Presenters
Are we there yet?’
Many people make the "magic pill mistake" about AI: believing it must be a perfect, all-in-one solution before they use it.
This leads some to rush in carelessly, and others to delay adopting it entirely.
To move forward, educators and leaders must change their approach, stop asking the wrong questions, and view AI as a skill that must be learned with a clear strategy.
"The AI Revolution: A chance to rewrite the script"
How can tools like 'Google Vids' and 'Gemini Ai' can transform content creation for organisational efficiency?
How can 'Google Vids' help with tasks such as converting slides, generating voiceovers, and editing video by editing the transcript?
How can we use Canva AI to automatically check our webpages?
Academic Technologies Lead
Lift Schools
‘The AI Avalanche: where do you stand?'
The presentation compares AI's arrival to an unstoppable "AI Avalanche".
It encourages schools to stop trying to divert it and instead focus on preparing for the impact.
The core message is to prioritise a Strategic Vision over just tools and cultivate an AI-Ready School Culture by focusing on the problems they want to solve.
Director of Digital
LEO Academy Trust
AI: Superpower or Kryptonite for Leadership?
AI can act as a superpower for leaders, providing insights from data, boosting capacity for admin tasks, enabling better scenario modeling, and unifying diverse voices.
However, it can also is also act as kryptonite due to risks like false confidence, loss of authenticity and trust, and the erosion of ethical oversight. Leaders must ensure AI supports their human vision and values.
Director Of Education
Woodland Academy Trust
Safe use of GEN AI: Putting Safeguards at the foundation of AI use
The video highlights urgent AI safety risks for children, including the creation of Child Sexual Abuse Material, exposure to adult content, dubious chatbot advice, and manipulation leading to unhealthy relationships.
Schools need to implement robust policies, incident management, and tool evaluation to prioritise child welfare and integrate AI literacy into the curriculum.
LGfL Safeguarding lead
AI - Unleashing code for organisational efficiency
AI can be used to streamline a complex CPD programme for a multi-school partnership. Initially, the AI was used for small tasks like scheduling courses, but it rapidly scaled up to manage registration, create calendar entries, build staff groups, generate course leader spreadsheets, and send personalised emails.
Highlights include the importance of persistence and not accepting the first output, highlighting the "competitive" relationship with AI and the need for the user to stay in charge of the process and final text.
Trust Technology and Innovation Lead.
Inspire Partnership
‘Stop asking the wrong questions……
ask the right ones and build your school an Ai strategy around them’
Mark Vickers
Head of Digital Learning & Teacher of Media
The Royal Hospital School
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