How This Teacher Feels About All This AI Stuff

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Author: Marcus Luther from The Important Work
Full Title: How This Teacher Feels About All This AI Stuff
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Summary:: Marcus Luther, a high school English teacher, shares his mixed feelings about the impact of AI on education. He feels curious yet overwhelmed and frustrated by the rapid changes and inconsistent expectations surrounding AI use in the classroom. Ultimately, he believes that the future of education requires imagination and a focus on what classrooms can become, rather than just efficiency.

mean, to be honest, despite the significant amount of hours I’ve invested on my own time to try and get a better grasp of all things artificial intelligence and its potential in the classroom, I haven’t figured out much at all. (View Highlight)
- Note: I think all the thinking and researching in the world IS no substitute for trying it and seeing how it lands.
are having to dodge landmines at every turn. This is a landscape we’ve created for them as educators, and the consequences are very much on us. (View Highlight)
I am also frustrated with the way “maximizing efficiency” has somehow been elevated to the paramount value in many conversations. Learning is messy and, as Josh Brake noted recently, “There is no salvation to be found in efficiency.” Nevertheless, the proliferation of AI in pursuit of increased productivity has come to feel like our 21st-century Gold Rush in education, metaphorically and, at times, quite literally. (View Highlight)
- Note: For whom, though? Teachers, students, or both?
There is a story of hope and potential that we can tell about our classrooms, yet so much of this AI discussion seems to operate with a deficit mindset around our students and what our current classrooms are capable of—led too often by folks outside the classroom who have lost sight of what is possible with a classroom community. (View Highlight)
- Note: Makes me wonder how I can create community in our education class.