No Need Rushing for AI in Education

The AI pitch looks suspiciously like the same education technology song and dance bombarding schools for more than a century, writes Thomas Ultican. Quite right. But let's analyze this. From a business standpoint, schools (and education generally) represents a huge pool of money, especially when the market is approached at the district or the state/province level. Fortunes can be made. Companies will promise anything. We never see results because none of these products changes anything about that model of education - that's the last thing the companies want to change, because then the huge pools of money become harder to access. So most product results in money being spent on technology to do the same thing as before. I would advise: let's not do that this time. But it's not a popular message - the companies don't like it, obviously, and neither do the schools, because what they want is to keep doing the same thing they've always done. Web: [Direct Link] [This Post]