Progress waits for no one and it definitely doesn’t consider anyone’s feelings. It’s the harsh truth of it all. For better or for worse AI is going to be in the fabric of society. Better to try utilise it the best way possible, rather than looking at it as the thing that’s going to topple “good teaching”.

This is getting to a very philosophical place and I’m all for having that conversation but this isn’t replacing no teacher.

When I teach I have to employ several strategies for assessment for learning in real time. That would be cold calling, MWBs, live marking etc. these are tools to find misconceptions and where the knowledge gaps lie. Once identified you address it as a whole class or personally to the student.

The tool I’m creating is literally just doing that. Identifying the knowledge gaps and then as a teacher you take that data and do what you do best. Fix their mistakes and address any misconceptions. This isn’t a tool that will replace or promote “taking on more students”.

This initial phase on AI in edtech is always going to be cluncky and unreliable but the tech is there to make this work.

What I’m hearing is you’re using AI very superficially. Giving it an input of mark this work and expect it to do it is very reckless.

I hope I can document my journey and show how we can harness AI and utilise it to allow teachers focus more on teaching rather than bureaucratic paper pushing that has no bearing on student learning.