Your section regarding some educators being concerned about the diminishment of student-teacher relationships is well-founded. One of my daughters has been a grade school teacher and special ed specialist for about 25 years and a good friend has been a professor of computer science for decades. The common denominator is their steadfast shunning of AI-based edtech. Neither are open to discussing the topic. Not even out of curiosity. I’ve asked both why the avoidance. Both responded that “teaching” must be done first person: period, full stop. My lay observation is that there is a fundamental difference between teaching and educating. Teaching is predicated on human delivery of course material to less educated persons, on a one-size-fits-all basis. Educating, on the other hand, delivers knowledge to students by the most effective means required by the individual’s unique learning capabilities. The latter being more effectively realized via a hybrid team of human and machine. Until our universities and unions recognize that human-machine collaboration is an essential evolutionary mandate, yet another generation of students will be left behind by “educational” malfeasance.
Bechem,
Your section regarding some educators being concerned about the diminishment of student-teacher relationships is well-founded. One of my daughters has been a grade school teacher and special ed specialist for about 25 years and a good friend has been a professor of computer science for decades. The common denominator is their steadfast shunning of AI-based edtech. Neither are open to discussing the topic. Not even out of curiosity. I’ve asked both why the avoidance. Both responded that “teaching” must be done first person: period, full stop. My lay observation is that there is a fundamental difference between teaching and educating. Teaching is predicated on human delivery of course material to less educated persons, on a one-size-fits-all basis. Educating, on the other hand, delivers knowledge to students by the most effective means required by the individual’s unique learning capabilities. The latter being more effectively realized via a hybrid team of human and machine. Until our universities and unions recognize that human-machine collaboration is an essential evolutionary mandate, yet another generation of students will be left behind by “educational” malfeasance.