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A License to Teach: Why Sri Lanka's Educators Should Be Excited

For as long as I can remember, teaching in Sri Lanka has run on trust and reputation. A tutor builds a name, word spreads through the neighbourhood and the parent WhatsApp groups, and slowly a class fills up. It has worked for years. But if I am honest, something has always been missing. We never had one clear mark that simply says, this person is a qualified and verified educator. That is finally starting to change. A teaching license for Sri Lankan tutors and teachers is one of the quietest but most powerful shifts I have seen in our education system. So let me walk you through what it actually is, and why I think every educator in this country should be glad it is coming. What is a teaching license? A teaching license is an official credential that confirms a person is qualified, checked, and recognised to teach. Think of how we already trust a licensed doctor, a chartered accountant, or a registered engineer. It is a stamp that separates a professional from someone who is just givi...
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AI Can Improve Student Performance. But Are Students Learning?

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Generative AI can help a student write a better essay, solve a difficult problem, improve an explanation, or complete an assignment faster. But there is a question educators need to ask more often: Did the student actually learn anything? The OECD Digital Education Outlook 2026 raises an important distinction between performance and learning . Emerging evidence reviewed by the OECD suggests that access to general-purpose generative AI can improve the quality of students’ work while they are using it. But better AI-assisted performance does not automatically translate into better independent performance later. That distinction matters enormously. A student can produce an excellent answer with AI while developing surprisingly little ability to produce, explain, or evaluate that answer independently. The illusion of understanding Imagine two students trying to solve the same physics problem. The first student struggles. They draw a diagram. They choose the wrong equation. The...
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