Remember how free broadband was considered pie in the sky magical thinking?
I’ve started training my colleagues on using it, getting it to write multiple choice questions for you is a massive time saver.
I wonder if AI could mark homework? That would make teachers work / life balance a lot better, plus they could check for cheating at the same time.
This is going to do the opposite, as most “ai” is just IFTTT strings.
Isn’t this the same PM who said AI could destroy us last week?
Could we have more natural intelligence in the classroom. More teachers and helpers, smaller classes, more schools etc.
I really hate this move away from humans to computers.
“When a wrong answer is given the classroom assistant SPARK-EE will deploy a cattle prod against the offending student”
Is there any proof AI can teach children, and who’s going to oversee the AI and make sure it provides accurate information? Even the best LLMs like ChatGPT can produce absolute nonsense that sounds right but isn’t.
What I find funny is last month the PM said we need to regulate AI because it can be harmful and yet here he is hamfisting AI into everything.
So we’re replacing teachers with AI instead of paying for more teaching staff?
Well as educators are woke lefties according to the Tories, this comes as no surprise.
Or just scrap the pointless bureaucracy and let teachers get on with teaching. I, like many others, left teaching for many reasons and the amount of my time taken up pointless paperwork was second on my list. Top was the long hours, which would not have happened if all the paperwork done to only appease Ofsted and the SLT did not exist in the first place.
This is what living through the Industrial Revolution must have felt like. “This will be great!” cried the people who will make their money making everyone else jobless.
The stupid idea of somebody with a 5-yr-old’s grasp of what teaching entails.
Why stop there?
Why not have facial recognition class registers and if the kid is late there are automatic fines for parents?
And gaze detection software to scan if a young person stops concentrating on reading their assigned text with automatic fines for parents?
And timed toilet breaks which come out of a monthly ‘quota’ and if children exceed the limit then there is an automatic fine for parents?
And AI license plate detection software so that parents can be monitored dropping their children off to school in a car, and automatically eco-fined?
And a ‘social credit’ system for individual students which if they fall below a certain number, they lose privileges like break time until eventually, you guessed it, automatic fines for parents.
Imagine the improvements to behavior rates!
So because the majority of people are just going “AI BAD”. I listened to the Radio and they said it was going to primarily used to create lesson plans.
My question to you, is this a bad thing? I use AI to create agendas & structure to my workshops at work right now. Why are teachers being tasked to create lesson plans year upon year? Has maths changed since the 1980s they couldn’t use a pre-existing lesson plan?
AI is coming and should be embraced
My god, the bloke is a proper tool isn’t he? I reckon AI could replace him now
Whoops, we accidentally made a pro-tory AI and created pro-tory voters. We would tackle it but it’s labour fault for not letting us tackle it. – Tories.
Love when people who know nothing about the technology involved start throwing around ideas like this.
Giving kids access to “AI” in its current publicly understood and available format would be no more effective than simply letting them Google stuff on their phones, and would also simultaneously remove the benefit of them learning how to find an answer for themselves through research.
Government by buzzword.
“Ooh AI is so hot right now, we must have a policy to use it to show we are modern and relevant, with our fingers on the pulse of the modern world
“No, I don’t know anything about it either, but that doesn’t matter! We just need to look like we ate at the cutting edge!”
Not that long ago it was “blockchain” and “crypto”.
It’s just so pathetic to see.
The moron is just hopping on the latest buzzword isn’t he, it’d be kind of funny if he wasn’t ours.
This is a silly announcement given that you can already have it in your pocket.
Lol. Looking for a way to turn a teacher shortage into an excess of teachers and save money . It’s coming to a lot of jobs…
Anything but pay people a fair wage.
Technology used respectfully and with good sense is a great thing. This is not that.
Ai = bad make (attempt) at tough stance, wait, ai reduce cost = good
Problem will be implementation. For most teachers training consists of a couple hours after school then the instruction of have a fiddle with it to see what you can do. Any other profession I talk to about training when new software or systems is introduced is usually more involved than fiddling
Fuck this shit. Just make teachers do less forms and they will stop killing themselves.
Considering ChatGPT will tell you that the Beatles wrote Stairway To Heaven and gaslight you into believing it. I foresee no problems with using the current generation of AI to teach.
Giving teachers access to AI tools *along with increasing the number of teachers in the country* could really offset the workload. As a long-time lurker of r/Teachers and r/TeachingUK, when GPT-3 was first becoming popular, there were a few posts about teachers using it to generate lesson plans, and homework, for example, spelling tests.
Obviously as you get more complicated tasks it becomes much more difficult to reliably use AI, but even if you save a teacher an hour a week of unpaid lesson planning, that’s still an hour they could spend on a hobby, or interacting with their families, putting back into the economy (if you’re into that) etc.
As it stands at the moment *AI is not capable of replacing teachers,* however, it could definitely be used to lessen the strain on existing teachers, reduce unpaid work, and make the job more desirable.
What’s the betting this will actually be billions of pounds of tax money given to a company with little experience of delivering software solutions, owned by someone with close links to the cabinet?
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Remember how free broadband was considered pie in the sky magical thinking?
I’ve started training my colleagues on using it, getting it to write multiple choice questions for you is a massive time saver.
I wonder if AI could mark homework? That would make teachers work / life balance a lot better, plus they could check for cheating at the same time.
This is going to do the opposite, as most “ai” is just IFTTT strings.
Isn’t this the same PM who said AI could destroy us last week?
Could we have more natural intelligence in the classroom. More teachers and helpers, smaller classes, more schools etc.
I really hate this move away from humans to computers.
“When a wrong answer is given the classroom assistant SPARK-EE will deploy a cattle prod against the offending student”
Is there any proof AI can teach children, and who’s going to oversee the AI and make sure it provides accurate information? Even the best LLMs like ChatGPT can produce absolute nonsense that sounds right but isn’t.
What I find funny is last month the PM said we need to regulate AI because it can be harmful and yet here he is hamfisting AI into everything.
So we’re replacing teachers with AI instead of paying for more teaching staff?
Well as educators are woke lefties according to the Tories, this comes as no surprise.
Or just scrap the pointless bureaucracy and let teachers get on with teaching. I, like many others, left teaching for many reasons and the amount of my time taken up pointless paperwork was second on my list. Top was the long hours, which would not have happened if all the paperwork done to only appease Ofsted and the SLT did not exist in the first place.
This is what living through the Industrial Revolution must have felt like. “This will be great!” cried the people who will make their money making everyone else jobless.
The stupid idea of somebody with a 5-yr-old’s grasp of what teaching entails.
Why stop there?
Why not have facial recognition class registers and if the kid is late there are automatic fines for parents?
And gaze detection software to scan if a young person stops concentrating on reading their assigned text with automatic fines for parents?
And timed toilet breaks which come out of a monthly ‘quota’ and if children exceed the limit then there is an automatic fine for parents?
And AI license plate detection software so that parents can be monitored dropping their children off to school in a car, and automatically eco-fined?
And a ‘social credit’ system for individual students which if they fall below a certain number, they lose privileges like break time until eventually, you guessed it, automatic fines for parents.
Imagine the improvements to behavior rates!
So because the majority of people are just going “AI BAD”. I listened to the Radio and they said it was going to primarily used to create lesson plans.
My question to you, is this a bad thing? I use AI to create agendas & structure to my workshops at work right now. Why are teachers being tasked to create lesson plans year upon year? Has maths changed since the 1980s they couldn’t use a pre-existing lesson plan?
AI is coming and should be embraced
My god, the bloke is a proper tool isn’t he? I reckon AI could replace him now
Whoops, we accidentally made a pro-tory AI and created pro-tory voters. We would tackle it but it’s labour fault for not letting us tackle it. – Tories.
Love when people who know nothing about the technology involved start throwing around ideas like this.
Giving kids access to “AI” in its current publicly understood and available format would be no more effective than simply letting them Google stuff on their phones, and would also simultaneously remove the benefit of them learning how to find an answer for themselves through research.
Government by buzzword.
“Ooh AI is so hot right now, we must have a policy to use it to show we are modern and relevant, with our fingers on the pulse of the modern world
“No, I don’t know anything about it either, but that doesn’t matter! We just need to look like we ate at the cutting edge!”
Not that long ago it was “blockchain” and “crypto”.
It’s just so pathetic to see.
The moron is just hopping on the latest buzzword isn’t he, it’d be kind of funny if he wasn’t ours.
This is a silly announcement given that you can already have it in your pocket.
Lol. Looking for a way to turn a teacher shortage into an excess of teachers and save money . It’s coming to a lot of jobs…
Anything but pay people a fair wage.
Technology used respectfully and with good sense is a great thing. This is not that.
Ai = bad make (attempt) at tough stance, wait, ai reduce cost = good
Problem will be implementation. For most teachers training consists of a couple hours after school then the instruction of have a fiddle with it to see what you can do. Any other profession I talk to about training when new software or systems is introduced is usually more involved than fiddling
Fuck this shit. Just make teachers do less forms and they will stop killing themselves.
Considering ChatGPT will tell you that the Beatles wrote Stairway To Heaven and gaslight you into believing it. I foresee no problems with using the current generation of AI to teach.
Giving teachers access to AI tools *along with increasing the number of teachers in the country* could really offset the workload. As a long-time lurker of r/Teachers and r/TeachingUK, when GPT-3 was first becoming popular, there were a few posts about teachers using it to generate lesson plans, and homework, for example, spelling tests.
Obviously as you get more complicated tasks it becomes much more difficult to reliably use AI, but even if you save a teacher an hour a week of unpaid lesson planning, that’s still an hour they could spend on a hobby, or interacting with their families, putting back into the economy (if you’re into that) etc.
As it stands at the moment *AI is not capable of replacing teachers,* however, it could definitely be used to lessen the strain on existing teachers, reduce unpaid work, and make the job more desirable.
What’s the betting this will actually be billions of pounds of tax money given to a company with little experience of delivering software solutions, owned by someone with close links to the cabinet?