High Schools Begin Using

AI to Replace Teachers

 

 

 

 

“We are not seeing anything that could replace a quality educator.”

Despite experts’ warnings that AI tools are a poor substitute for human teachers, a high school in London, UK, will allow students, starting at age 15, to utilise them before standardising tests the following year.

According to Business Insider, David Game College’s pilot program aims to support students who are falling behind and those who are performing significantly better than the others.

“Students will benefit enormously from AI-powered adaptive learning, which allows every student to learn at their own pace rather than having to keep pace with a class,” co-principal John Dalton told Business Insider, “which often progresses too quickly for some students and too slowly for others.”

According to material made public by the LA Times last month, Grabow referred All Here, the business that created the chatbot and notified educational institutions of its “financial collapse” (despite getting millions of dollars in public support).

 Regarding limitations, the chatbot that went online in March regularly advised users to “ask your teacher.”

Stated differently, we find it hard to believe Dalton’s assertions that the college has “humanised the AI learning process by creating a holistic and engaging educational experience.”

Fortunately, the college will not rely solely on AI technologies. Students in the pilot program will receive assistance from three full-time learning coaches.

Using well-worn talking lines, Dalton justified the initiative by asserting that AI tools will enhance student learning and free up teachers. There have been eerily similar arguments made about companies trying to replace workers with AI.

The use of AI in the classroom is not exclusive to David Game College. Harvard launched an AI teacher to instruct a well-liked beginning coding course. Children in Silicon Valley’s private schools are also receiving instruction from an AI-powered tutor.

Teachers and students alike are using ChatGPT and other similar programs extensively for writing and grading papers, respectively.

Students have already been wrongly accused of employing artificial intelligence (AI), leaving a significant problem in its wake. Furthermore, this is a major mistake, particularly in the context of education the technology is far from flawless and is currently unable to distinguish fact from fiction.

The college’s AI instructor experiment has drawn criticism for going too far.

According to Hadida Grabow, director of educational consultancy Higher, “AI can be a valuable supplement to live teachers, but it cannot replace them entirely,” she told BI.

 “We are not seeing anything that could replace a quality educator.”

“Regrettably, the technology just isn’t there yet we’ve seen that with the high-profile failure of the Los Angeles Unified School District’s AI chatbot,” she said.

According to material made public by the LA Times last month, Grabow referred AllHere, the business that created the chatbot and notified educational institutions of its “financial collapse” (despite getting millions of dollars in public support).

 Regarding limitations, the chatbot that went online in March regularly advised users to “ask your teacher.”

Stated differently, we find it hard to believe Dalton’s assertions that the college has “humanised the AI learning process by creating a holistic and engaging educational experience.”

“The system does not judge students,” he said, BI was informed. “Instead, it allows them to learn at their own pace in a safe environment.”

It’s unclear, though, if these efforts will be successful or worsen the already severe teacher shortage in the UK.

 

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