There are so many discussions about AI and Education. Last week I participated in an AI Round Table Discussion for our consortium of schools. We are all doing different things.
I found this article helpful. (New Tools. Old Complaints. "Why AI Won’t Kill Education or Fix it" by Vicki Davis )
Key Points:
Homework alone as verification of knowledge is out. To entirely depend on homework completion as a measure of knowledge is a mistake.
Formative Assessment is in. Now, I can't just have students “do” homework. Homework is practice for knowing how to do the work in class. Formative assessment the moment students come to class, checks for understanding.
Passive lecture is out. If you have a class where kids can coast and not engage, sad to say, many of them will. They'll sleep in class. They'll check out. This is an old complaint. (Bueller?)
Active learning and teaching is in. Students engaged in active learning, projects, and work in class is part of what we can do ... Students need to be doing right there in class, in front of everyone. Part of the learning.
Authentic mutual engagement is in. But if you are a teacher actively engaged in learning and teaching – not from a gotcha perspective but from a perspective of authentic mutual engagement..
Gotcha is out. Sure, we want students to know that we know if they are learning.
Relationships are in.
Any “tool” to solve all our problems in education is out. ... If a student is struggling, one of the only things that has ever overcome the lack of inertia is an engaged teacher with a positive relationship with that student to help them move towards learning and engage.
The teacher is in. Teaching isn't easy. It never has been. We have new challenges and old excuses.
