AI in education is: - A political project to get even more private tech into schools and universities - Habituating children and students to industry-defined and -demanded "jobs of the future" - Often not actually "AI" ... - ThreadSky

benpatrickwill.bsky.social • 47 days ago

AI in education is:

- A political project to get even more private tech into schools and universities
- Habituating children and students to industry-defined and -demanded "jobs of the future"
- Often not actually "AI" ...

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jelmerevers.com•46 days ago

Have you read the "union of skills" flagship programme of the @ec.europa.eu?

benpatrickwill.bsky.social•47 days ago

AI in education is also about:
- Accustoming students to living, learning and working with Big Tech
- Taking subscription fees from public institutions for private services
- An excuse for privatization and commercialization of education
- Polluting the educational environment with slop ...

benpatrickwill.bsky.social•47 days ago

AI in education is also:

- Extracting data to make even more services to sell back to institutions
- Un-evidenced
- Over-hyped
- Fascism-adjacent
- Under-researched
- Under-regulated
- Likely to increase (not reduce) teacher workload
- Making schools/universities dependent on big tech companies ...

benpatrickwill.bsky.social•47 days ago

And, AI in education is:

- Turning educational institutions into providers of data and content for AI companies that fundamentally don't recognize the public value of education and want to replace it.

It's funky tech no doubt; it's also a disaster for the idea and values of public education.

reinamwilliams.bsky.social•47 days ago

Would it be okay to use a very short quote from your thread in a letter to my son's community college?
(The English Dept. is allowing some teachers to require ChatGTP accounts in a basic course.)

thegurglingcod.bsky.social•46 days ago

Woof I am very to hear this.

alrightyes.bsky.social•46 days ago

i am also very!

jamesfern.bsky.social•45 days ago

Some thought provoking points here, thanks for sharing! I enjoyed your blog from Feb 2024 https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2024/02/22/ai-in-education-is-a-public-problem/ and was wondering if your thinking has changed on any of these points since then?

ChristoFBG.mstdn.plus.ap.brid.gy•46 days ago

@benpatrickwill.bsky.social My wife (with almost 30 years teaching under her belt) had her annual observation and post-observation meeting with her department head this week and was scolded for not incorporating AI into her lesson plan. 🤪

katjathieme.bsky.social•46 days ago

That’s terrible. I’m sorry she has to deal with that.

ehb2013ehb.bsky.social•45 days ago

And it adds significantly to unmining the child's need to remember that exchanging words with a machine is essentially different and inferior to communicating with another human being.

sarahdearing.bsky.social•47 days ago

I suspect it's the only viable business model for all the charlatans: schools (and US gov't) first then students will be forced to subscribe personally. Then as adults they'll be lost without it. It's horrid and alarming. Never been so glad to be in my 60's.

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