The kinds of tasks that I hear teachers being encouraged to offload to “AI” — grading, lesson planning, communication with students and parents, design of handouts and other classroom material, IEPs — are actually constitutive of the very work. These tasks — and yes, some of them can be burdensome, time-consuming, annoying as hell — are how you come to know the content, the community, the classroom, yourself and others. Nothing about teaching and learning should be thoughtless or careless the way in which “AI” promises thoughtlessness and carelessness as-a-service. Education isn’t comprised of tasks that should be automated; this isn’t work that needs to be made faster and cheaper. Teaching and learning are not something to be optimized or engineered like machinery, turned into the very “factory model of education” that Silicon Valley has spent decades inventing and positioning against.
via Second Breakfast.
I am still anxious about “AI” arriving at my school in the form of tools for teachers. Students use it obviously and some teachers also do. But it is not there in an official capacity (yet).
The new Muse singles are heavy and good.