Teachers struggling with AI in the classroom.
AI is no longer a future issue in education. It is already sitting in the classroom, in students’ homework, and in teachers’ planning. This thoughtful article follows one trainee teacher as he wrestles with a question many educators now face: is AI undermining learning, or forcing schools to rethink what good teaching really looks like? It is an honest, timely read for anyone trying to make sense of the new uncertainty.
Some takeaways from the article:
- If students can generate fluent essays in seconds, what exactly are we now assessing: writing ability, thinking ability, or prompt-writing ability?
- What happens to teaching when a teacher spends less time responding to student thinking and more time trying to work out whether the work is even theirs?
- Could AI be a useful tutor for struggling writers, or is it simply the fastest route to dependency?
- Before students use AI to “supercharge” their thinking, do they first need sustained practice in thinking without it?
- Perhaps the most urgent classroom task is not simply deciding whether to allow AI, but teaching students to question the systems behind it..
I was a newcomer, negotiating all of the usual classroom difficulties for the first time. Throwing AI into the mix felt like downing a coffee in the middle of a panic attack. Peter C Baker
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