The challenge is not to beat AI to your own game. It is to ensure that school remains human enough for students to learn to be human – together.
The online school in Arizona adopts a entirely taught study program for 2025
An online school in Arizona fully gives teaching tasks to artificial intelligence with a virtual academy.
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- The author, a university professor, pleads against letting AI define education, stressing the importance of human interaction and collaboration.
- He saw first -hand how AI can carry out complex missions, which questions traditional teaching methods.
- As such, he thinks that schools should prioritize students to live how to live and participate in a democracy, the tasks that AI cannot reproduce.
At the end of the 2025 school year, one thing that teachers, parents and the wider public know with certainty is that AI is there, and it assumes more responsibilities that were previously left to the human brain.
The AI ​​can now kill students at their own pace, deliver personalized content and even ACE exams, including the one I did for my own course. Although a little scary, this part does not bother me. Of course, machines can process information faster than us.
What bothers me is that we seem ready to let the machines and political dissatisfaction define the purpose of education.
Children are disengaged at school; Ai does not help
A recent Brooking report have found that one in three students is actively engaged in school. This follows what I saw myself as a former high school teacher and current teacher.
Many students are verified, deriving quietly in the movements while teachers juggle several crises. They try to shoot some students at the school level and simply hope that others do not slip back. It is more a sorting than teaching.
I tested one of my own final exams in Chatgpt. He marked 90% the first time and 100% the next time. Colleagues tell me that their students submit tests written by AI. A teacher I know abandoned and returned to handwritten trials for his final exam. We are in 2025 and we are back to blue books.
I recently questioned and interviewed teachers of social studies of secondary school across the country for a study on democratic education. Each of them said they had trouble conceiving assignments, AI cannot finish.
These are not multiple choice quizs or summaries with five paragraphs. These are book analyzes, historical criticism and political arguments – real cognitive work that required original thought. NOW? A chatbot can imitate it well enough to get out of it.
So what are we doing? Double vocational training? This is what I fear. A large part of today's education policy seems to focus on the production of workers for an economy already in constant evolution.
But the AI ​​will reshape the labor market, whether or not it is. To pretend that we can go beyond our way through this is a wishful wish.
School should teach children to live in the world, not just to work there
John Dewey, the pragmatist at the beginning of the 20th century, had the answer over 100 years ago. He reminded us that school is never only a pipeline for employment. It is a place to learn to live in a democracy. Not only memorize facts about it, but participate. Build it. Challenge it.
Schools are not about the world; they are The world – just with adult and peer advice, and more likely to fail safely … Hopefully.
In the Dewey model, teachers are not content frames. These are guides and facilitators of meaning. These are people who help students understand how to live together, how to discuss without tearing themselves apart, how to give meaning to the world and their place, how to find their goal and work with peers to solve problems.
This is not something that AI can do. And frankly, this is not something that our education system obsessed with employment does, tests and that does, either. Parents and members of the community also play an important role in training this type of education, which would lead to a healthier and more robust democracy for the call.
If we let AI define the limits of teaching, we will dig it. Of course, students can learn more effective means of taking content. But they will miss the disorderly human work of collaboration, curiosity, disagreement and creation. And in a world increasingly shaped by machines, it may be the most important thing we can teach.
The challenge is not to beat AI to your own game. It is to ensure that school remains human enough for students to learn to be human – together.
Dustin Hornbeck, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of educational leadership and political studies. His opinion does not represent that of the university for which he works.
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