Most things a human teacher can do, AI can mimic. If we cannot identify and prioritize what human teachers bring to the classroom, we risk replacement. We must research the impact of human ingenuity, creativity, and relationships. Can AI tools really replace human teachers? I don’t think so, but the point of this provocation is…
There is no such thing as AI-proof. Be it assessments, careers, or anything else, the ubiquity of AI and pace of growth means AI-proof is a problematically alluring impossibility. The arrival of GenAI left educators in the stressful situation of dealing with a new and rapidly changing situation and left many wishing there was a…
Our assessments were broken before AI. We need to rethink how we understand and implement assessment including an emphasis on developing and implementing valid assessments in pre-service teacher programs. Patrick Whipple, the Director of Professional Learning Services at Genesee Valley BOCES, teaches a course at Niagara University on assessment for pre-service teachers. At the convening…
We can be agents of validity or victims of cheating. We cannot control cheating and focusing on it will lead to an adversarial relationship with students; where we have agency is in how we engage students with more meaningful tasks that lead to an accurate understanding of student learning. I am not someone who deals…
There is no AI problem. Education itself is a wicked problem; assuming there is an AI-in-education problem risks us thinking there is an AI solution. AI arrived in our world and our schools in late 2022, and we have been talking about it since then. Too often, though, the conversation has focused solely on the…