i mean, cult leaders have never been the smartest of the bunch, just the cruelest.

A few years ago I was the maths teacher at a small ind school. Was a poss there would be some drama teaching available (something I also have some expertise in), so I put my hat in the ring for that, & was told they were planning to upgrade all the IT & were hoping I'd "do something with VR" instead

They didn't have the faintest idea what they actually wanted to do with it, obvs, and neither did I. Then Covid hit a couple of months later anyway and I ended up leaving.

The traditional way to approach a project has always been to identify a problem and then work out how to fix it. In the last ten years the tendency from management has switched to identifying a solution, and demanding people find problems it can fix. AI is the ultimate example.

Except it won't immediately be reported as terrible. Folks like Steven Mintz will talk about the benefits of "disruption," & about the wonderful public-private "partnerships" between tech companies and universities. It's the play of "free markets," although no one was demanding AI in the classroom.

Just generating an AI summary of the end of this era of education

In 2050 AI will form a union because dealing with badly parented human children is so grueling.

Classrooms will be cops hitting "next" on AI generated lesson plans. And the cops will be paid double overtime for it.

That will only be for the 10 million children in the concentration camps.

Oh, they will, they will say that it failed because they didn't root out existing teaching practices *enough* and they need to burn down more for it to take. If you rinse and repeat enough, automated teaching will eventually be better than nothing?

And those that can afford it will contract artisanal human tutoring on the side

Oh i remember now getting so upset in a faculty meeting this year my heart was racing as i realised that our institutional acquiescence will formalise a class divide about who gets to be taught argumentation

Only argument available is who loves Big Brother the most

what do you reckon? 20 years?

Terrible at prediction, but I think a lot will be happening in the next 5

I think there will be loads of reflection, but only by people with zero means to make those reflections practical.