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The wrong way to teach: A teacher overseeing 300 AI-tutored students
Teachers ‘somewhere in the system’ is not the same as putting them in charge of learning.
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Teachers are not there merely to check AI outputs. They exercise judgment on when to introduce AI, when to withhold it, and when to deliberately slow things down so students wrestle with complexity rather than outsource it.
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Audrey Cheong
In the last few years, as artificial intelligence entered classrooms and staffrooms,
It sounds responsible. It suggests that as long as a teacher is somewhere in the system, learners are safe and learning is preserved. But this framing repositions humans in a supervisory role around machines, rather than in a leadership role over the entire learning endeavour.
