Tag: ai

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If I chuck a sickie, can I send in Plato?

Ever since Melania Trump asked us to “imagine a humanoid educator,” I’ve done just that. I’ve wondered to myself: if I chucked a sickie and didn’t go into school, could her new robotic pal, Figure 3 (aka ‘Plato’), take my place? Afterall, she did tell us Plato is “always patient, and always available.” On both […]

Written by mralph0

Let’s talk about AI in education: strategies for teachers

Through a culture of high stakes testing (e.g.: NAPLAN) and the rise of ‘audit culture’ in education, we have created a school climate of standardized, neat conformity. As a result, kids are understandably tempted to produce neat, standardized answers. To achieve this, they are increasingly outsourcing their thinking to AI. Is anyone surprised by this? […]