Where are we going with artificial intelligence in the English classroom?
Jay Doubleyou: the future of ai and english language teaching
How much should we (as teachers and students) be worried about AI?
Jay Doubleyou: controlling ai - part one: the dangers of chatgpt
And how much should we be seeing it as a resource?
Jay Doubleyou: chat gpt in teaching/learning/working with english - the research
The UK government is keen:
AI in schools: What you need to know – The Education Hub
Salman Khan has written a book called "Brave New Words" on the issues.
Here are some views from educators:
Here's a review:
AI could revolutionize the classroom
By Robert Adès
Contemporary philosophy|
Brave New Words by Salman Khan, the founder of the American non-profit online education company Khan Academy, is an advert for its new AI teaching and learning assistant Khanmigo, recently released in the UK. It is a generative AI powered by GPT-4 and prepared specifically for the classroom. If you believe the examples in this book, Khanmigo matches the already mind- boggling power of GPT-4 and may yet foretell a dystopian future. As a teacher, I can’t wait to use it in September.
The last thing this AI will do is write students’ essays for them. It is more likely to render plagiarism irrelevant. If the pupil tries to plagiarize, the bot will realize, probe the pupil’s motivations, then report to the teacher. If that sounds authoritarian, it is: just as a school is meant to be. The AI will then encourage the pupil to work independently, feeding back to the teacher and parents. For the teacher, the AI can make lesson plans, grade pupil work and provide personalized assessments. It can keep parents up to date and suggest tasks to do at home. And, like GPT-4, it has the capacity to mimic creatively: to invent conversations between historical figures, co-author creative writing, reword mathematical theories in terms of each pupil’s hobby. The possibilities are almost limitless.
Khan acknowledges some of AI’s dangers, such as “hallucinations”: factually false outputs. But he does not address the risk of losing the human experience of a student having a meaningful relationship with a good teacher. Part of the acquisition of knowledge derives from the charisma and authority of a teacher standing up and talking with passion. Many teachers leave lasting personal impressions on their charges. In a interview with Bill Gates in 2023, Khan recalled a list of his own inspiring school teachers. My worry is not that the students will cheat more or learn less, but that their opportunities for personal relationships, such as those Khan benefited from, will be reduced.
This loss would be a shame, not a dystopia. But there are dystopias on the horizon. Khan describes our current model of education as a “factory” – a conveyor belt in which a kid who falls behind his cohort stays behind. The AI teaching assistant may solve this problem while turning factories of education into self-checkouts of education. Perhaps a child with a knowledge gap won’t be left behind, but…
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education – review | Impact of Social Sciences
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