How artificial intelligence will impact K-12 teachers

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. How artificial intelligence will impact K-12 teachers
Jake Bryant, Christine Heitz, Saurabh Sanghvi, Dilip Wagle, McKinsey, 2020/01/16
This article is a mixture of hoary old truisms (eg., "their role will shift from instructor to facilitator and coach") and generic 'technology will make things better' but which nonetheless reassure educators by saying that not only will tech not replace them, the demand for teachers will actually grow in the future. The premise here is that new technologies will reduce time spent on administrative tasks, allowing teachers to spend more time on teaching tasks (or maybe it will cut down on those 50-hour work weeks - either one would be good). But the link between artificial intelligence and these outcomes is pretty tenuous - it involves things like using AI assistance to grade papers and having AIs fill out forms. There's a lot of talk about AI enabling personalization - but the math doesn't work. If tech is saving 30 percent of a 50 hour work week, the it provides an extra 6 minutes per student per day. More...