If you ban something in schools it will only incentivise students to use it. There are teachers using AI for awesome education experiences. Why not start a conversation here about how to productively use AI productively in the classroom
That’s true, banning it will bring the students in, but a bit of a block list and it’d be basically gone for good.
My AI dillemnas sit mostly with student data, and that’s not something one can put back into the bottle, so in the short term I’d ban it - then productive uses can be workshopped in the short hiatus.
Because the conversation about how to use it creatively is happening in spades. Go find a learning designer at an elite private school and follow their linkedin/blog. If you take what you know about public schooling, equity, staffing shortages, teacher burnout, and what high stakes assessment does to promising new ideas, and look at uptake of AI in schools through that lens, more will be revealed.
The 'limited and scattered attentions of beuracracy', nail on the head. There have been no incentives for most teachers, for decades, to seriously invest attention in digital pedagogies or critical digital literacies. If you are a teacher or school that has managed to be ready to teach in this environment, clap clap for you (us). But most teachers 'still only use Facebook' and 'don't want another app to think about'. Why aren't folks grasping the professional learning gap we're looking at here? Why do the excited ones wish such immediate and total chaos on others?
If you ban something in schools it will only incentivise students to use it. There are teachers using AI for awesome education experiences. Why not start a conversation here about how to productively use AI productively in the classroom
That’s true, banning it will bring the students in, but a bit of a block list and it’d be basically gone for good.
My AI dillemnas sit mostly with student data, and that’s not something one can put back into the bottle, so in the short term I’d ban it - then productive uses can be workshopped in the short hiatus.
I reckon
Because the conversation about how to use it creatively is happening in spades. Go find a learning designer at an elite private school and follow their linkedin/blog. If you take what you know about public schooling, equity, staffing shortages, teacher burnout, and what high stakes assessment does to promising new ideas, and look at uptake of AI in schools through that lens, more will be revealed.
Oh true true! Very good points!
The 'limited and scattered attentions of beuracracy', nail on the head. There have been no incentives for most teachers, for decades, to seriously invest attention in digital pedagogies or critical digital literacies. If you are a teacher or school that has managed to be ready to teach in this environment, clap clap for you (us). But most teachers 'still only use Facebook' and 'don't want another app to think about'. Why aren't folks grasping the professional learning gap we're looking at here? Why do the excited ones wish such immediate and total chaos on others?