The CEO of schoolai.com seems to have it right: "If AI just gives the student the answer, we’ve failed—the point of teaching is to coach and to keep them engaged in the work."
There's no undo command for AI, it's not going away, and the only task we have as parents and educators is to live with it and continue to understand it. Unfortunately, collateral damage to outcomes is inevitable, as AI adoption is reaching new highs within k12 and higher ed -- and the answer is far too easy to procure without the requisite understanding. Yet it's incumbent on all involved (teachers, educators, and big tech) to figure out how the JOURNEY to the answer becomes the substrate on which student leverage AI, not the answer itself. It's a very challenging task, but in the end i think we'll be much better off with this technology than without.
The CEO of schoolai.com seems to have it right: "If AI just gives the student the answer, we’ve failed—the point of teaching is to coach and to keep them engaged in the work."
There's no undo command for AI, it's not going away, and the only task we have as parents and educators is to live with it and continue to understand it. Unfortunately, collateral damage to outcomes is inevitable, as AI adoption is reaching new highs within k12 and higher ed -- and the answer is far too easy to procure without the requisite understanding. Yet it's incumbent on all involved (teachers, educators, and big tech) to figure out how the JOURNEY to the answer becomes the substrate on which student leverage AI, not the answer itself. It's a very challenging task, but in the end i think we'll be much better off with this technology than without.