Estonia eschews phone bans in schools and takes leap into AI

Estonia eschews phone bans in schools and takes leap into AI

Country at top of education charts aims to equip students and teachers with ‘world-class artificial intelligence skills’While many schools in England have banned smartphones, in Estonia – regarded as the new European education powerhouse – students are regularly asked to use their devices in class, and from September they will be given their own AI accounts.The small Baltic country – population 1.4 million – has quietly become Europe’s top perfo…