What do you envision the AI usage to look like in the next 1, 5, 10 years?

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AI has the potential to fail in the same way. It will fail in schools that treat it as a product to roll out rather than a capability to develop. It will fail when administrators mandate it rather than model it. It will fail when professional development focuses on platforms rather than practice. It will fail when equity is treated as a downstream consideration rather than the organizing...

What a great question. So hard to predict, but here's my opinion on things.I think over the next year we will see AI usage grow quite rapidly within schools while people experiment with new tools, find different ways of working with AI, and try to find the best ways in which AI aligns with their own way of teaching. I think this will mostly be driven by trying to find ways to make the current...

That is such an important question. I do not think the future of AI in education will be about handing learning over to machines. I think it will be about becoming much clearer on what is worth protecting in education and what can be productively supported. From my perspective, AI will increasingly sit in the background of classrooms and schools as a tool that helps with planning,...

Excellent points. I think that's true that educators must step out with courage and try new things. Mistakes are the way. If we think about it, we fall until we walk, we miss the hoop until we make it, we crash the bike until we learn to ride. I think much about the high expectations we place on educators shows that we're expecting a human to always get it right, to always have that "silver...

I believe there is a positive potential for AI in the classroom, but there is still a lack of literacy amongst educators, from my experience. I believe that we must start to go beyond "use-cases" and start to tackle how AI can be leveraged to better achieve learning objectives, re-evaluate how we assess our students and what we are assessing in our classrooms, and have more conversations about...

I appreciate your view and your comments. Let's keep working for the betterment of students and teachers.

It is difficult, but I think if schools are willing to make this a priority, then it can become manageable. The prescriptive answer is Professional Development should be tailored more towards these conversations, PLC's, etc. I think it requires a fundamental shift in our thinking regarding assessment, learning objectives, and the role of the teacher in the classroom. This thought process is...

I envision AI making classrooms more human, not less: handling the routine work so teachers have more time for relationships, feedback, creativity, and truly responsive learning.

Absolutely.

I think those are important and relevant ideas. How do you think we might get more AI literacy amongst educators without taking more unpaid time or putting more on their professional plate? I know that's always the difficulty- finding time for educators to learn and practice new ways of teaching.