Fully agree. The latency is largely due to the way we have to assess & examine, however. While the grades that students attain are very high stakes and impact their life chances, educators do not have full freedom to be able to experiment. The exams are built to fit a 1940s paradigm, and it’s beyond frustrating that we have to teach students to jump through an extremely outdated hoop. Yes, AI can help in some ways, but it’s new to all of us. We are not engineers and the pressure from Silicon Valley to keep up is intense, as well as profit-driven. The students need their grades. Their parents’ taxes or wages are paying for that, and we do them a disservice if we jeopardise that. That said, many of us certainly are using AI to teach with & about and we are introducing some elements to students as age-appropriate.
Nevertheless I 100% agree that the entire thing needs to change. It has needed to change for a very long time.
We desperately need the government to have the courage to move things on, right now!
Fully agree. The latency is largely due to the way we have to assess & examine, however. While the grades that students attain are very high stakes and impact their life chances, educators do not have full freedom to be able to experiment. The exams are built to fit a 1940s paradigm, and it’s beyond frustrating that we have to teach students to jump through an extremely outdated hoop. Yes, AI can help in some ways, but it’s new to all of us. We are not engineers and the pressure from Silicon Valley to keep up is intense, as well as profit-driven. The students need their grades. Their parents’ taxes or wages are paying for that, and we do them a disservice if we jeopardise that. That said, many of us certainly are using AI to teach with & about and we are introducing some elements to students as age-appropriate.
Nevertheless I 100% agree that the entire thing needs to change. It has needed to change for a very long time.
We desperately need the government to have the courage to move things on, right now!