But LLMs do a terrible job at all these things, because none of that is what they are designed to do. Why would you use it to do this, when it has no concept of your students and even a novice teacher can create better resources?
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My point is that the ed tech being pushed on teachers is part of a project to deprofessionalize teaching, reduce students to data sets, using it as an excuse to decrease teacher's decision-making power and increase teacher workload. The AI part exacerbates this with the promise of simulating humans.
I have not seen a single demo of educational content being created by one of these tools that did not have serious problems. This is in addition to the problem of teachers' cognitive offloading of tasks that improve their practice and foster connection with students.
It seems like we are on different paths right now. This whole process of seeing how AI will impact in education will be a journey. We will see where this all leads us.
It's going to 'lead' us where we choose to follow. If we accept or even facilitate the increasing role of tech companies in making important decisions about student education in the classroom, we'll eventually lose the ability to make that choice for ourselves.
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