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.
I'm not concerned about any particular technologies as such. I'm concerned about 'AI' as a marketing tool that explicitly tries to blur the line between human intelligence and technological tools, because (1) it makes it harder for people to critically analyze specific technologies and their 1/2
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