Losing Control: The Fear of AI and the Reality of Ourselves
Maybe it’s time to hit the pause button — not on innovation, but on our own violence.
AI has been the push. Not my focus.
As James Yoonil Auh recently put it in a University World News article, "The real scandal of AI in education is not plagiarism, but pedagogy already too shallow to survive it."
Schoolishness and "Doing School" have run rampant for a while, and have aliented students from their education.
The trick isn't to promote AI in every corner of our classrooms, but to chip away at the transactional model of education that has become entrenched in our educational system.
We need to think about:
We'll need to ask the big -- often uncomfortable -- questions about the dynamics in our classrooms.