Recording new AI courses for school leaders and managers in development at E-Wise

Today was one of those days that stays with you for a while.

Camera on. Lights on. And then talking. For hours. In total, some 7 hours of recordings for two courses on AI, for school leaders in primary education and managers in secondary education.

And somewhere halfway through you notice that it is no longer really just about AI.

We started with a question that is becoming ever more relevant: what does AI actually mean for leadership in education? Not as a tool, not as hype, but as something that is already right in the middle of practice. In pupils’ texts, in apps, in systems that increasingly think along.

From there, the next layers followed naturally. The questions schools run into every day. What is allowed and what isn’t? What about privacy? What does the AI Act really mean for us? But also: when does something still feel responsible, and when does it actually no longer?

And perhaps even more important: what do we actually want?

Not just whether something is possible, but whether we want it, and not just how we use AI, but what role it gets in learning, in thinking, in assessing.

That is what most of the day was about.

About vision. About making choices. About the realisation that without direction everything becomes fragmented, and that this is precisely where you make the difference as a school leader or manager.

And then came the translation step.

From vision to policy.

From policy to practice.

And above all, how do you bring people along?

Because in the end, implementation is not about systems, but about trust. About room. About the conversation within the school.

What stays with me most from today is that AI actually sharpens everything. It forces you to take a fresh look at your education, at what you consider important.

And at that one question that keeps coming back: What do we want pupils and teachers to keep doing themselves?

That is where it lies for me.

And somewhere, at the end of the day, everything came together in something that is perhaps even bigger than education alone:

The art of living (and surviving) together with AI 🙂

Many thanks to Elice and Daan Funken of E-WISE for the excellent work today. Really well done.

Now time to recharge after an intense but truly wonderful day.