The AI era ban is over — SA schools must embrace the leapfrog generation
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The AI era ban is over — SA schools must embrace the leapfrog generation Banning AI only drives it underground. By bringing it into the classroom, pupils from both rich and poor backgrounds can benefit. By Anton Botha 28 Jul 2026 Anton Botha is an adjunct professor of industrial-organisational psychology at the University of Cape Town.
- ▪The AI era ban is over — SA schools must embrace the leapfrog generation Banning AI only drives it underground.
- ▪By bringing it into the classroom, pupils from both rich and poor backgrounds can benefit.
- ▪By Anton Botha 28 Jul 2026 Anton Botha is an adjunct professor of industrial-organisational psychology at the University of Cape Town.
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| Publication time | Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:47:00 GMT |
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The AI era ban is over — SA schools must embrace the leapfrog generation Banning AI only drives it underground. By bringing it into the classroom, pupils from both rich and poor backgrounds can benefit. By Anton Botha 28 Jul 2026 Anton Botha is an adjunct professor of industrial-organisational psychology at the University of Cape Town. Dive Deeper Speed Read Listen Dive Deeper Education in South Africa is at an inflection point. Pupils are using AI the way previous generations used calculators and the internet, except the results are faster and almost impossible to trace. Evidence is emerging that this has significant development risks. On the other hand, teachers are using AI for everything from drafting lesson plans to summarising long reading lists, and designing whole courses.
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