Educators are increasingly wary of AI’s rapid adoption in education
Sample Educator Conversations:
Educators discuss ways AI is more disruptive to student learning than other technologies.
- “There is something nefarious about how hard and fast people are pushing AI in education. I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but it doesn’t bode well when corporations, not student need, set the pace.”
- “The harder the people around me in my district push [AI], the more resistant I become to it.”
- “90% of our student body relies on [AI] to complete their work. There is near to no originality in their writing.”
- “AI is more dangerous than other technology because of how it does everything for you. It interferes with building important skills that students need.”
Some educators worry that AI’s promised efficiencies could further overburden teachers:
- “If the assumption is that it takes teachers less time to do X, they will then be asked to do Y. And Z. And…”