- AI optimists - Students develop creativity and higher order thinking while supported by AI. Teachers can focus on personal interactions. AI pessimists - Students use to bypass cognition and cheat. Teachers waste time on digital surveillance. - Lot of pessimists are worried about over adoption in resource constrained settings reducing the teacher workforce and increasing existing divides. - "Arrival" technologies like Generative AI can't be ignored. Unlike laptops or tablets their presence in schools is not the result of policy but by students using it regardless of policy. - We also need to think of the context of when AI is coming in. We're just recovering from a pandemic and there's high levels of burnout and turnover in teachers. Students as well have been away from schools for a few years. There's little time and energy for experimentation. - Particularly English teachers have been impacted by ChatGPT. The concerns about academic integrity issues are really high and they just haven't been able to overcome that initial feeling. - 60% of teachers have experimented with integrating chat GPT. A few of the approaches they have taken - Curriculum generation and personalisation - creating homework, instructions for experiments or add pop culture references. - Rapid prototyping - teachers can ask students to use generative AI technology as starting points or prototypes that they can iterate from there - Tutoring/study buddy - students can use it as a study partner or tutor - Engaging students - teachers and students alike can have fun with it and generate funny and weird content - Education is a social endeavour - for many students learning is social: maintaining relationships and earning esteem. It's important to consider learning technology through this lens as well. - Critical thinking, problem solving are going to matter more and more in the future. - Students will need to learn how to make and create. The world runs on creativity and it's important to foster this. We need students to create not just consume. ---- Klopfer, Eric, Justin Reich, Hal Abelson, and Cynthia Breazeal. 2024. “Generative AI and K-12 Education: An MIT Perspective.” An MIT Exploration of Generative AI, March. - [Link](https://mit-genai.pubpub.org/pub/4k9msp17/release/1)