Allie K. Miller on LinkedIn: AI is enabling a “school with no teachers”. MacKenzie Price runs Alpha… | 432 comments (2024)

Can this AI powered self-serve learning model work in corporate learning and development? #learninganddevelopment #ai #aiinlearning

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The idea of a "school without teachers" that uses AI to provide personalised instruction is intriguing. It appears to emphasise a combination of technology and human instruction, with an emphasis on practical skills and outdoor activities. The hefty tuition, on the other hand, raises concerns about scalability and accessibility, limiting its potential impact on a larger scale. The future of education may include a combination of AI-driven personalised learning and human-guided experiences, but cost and scalability issues must be overcome before widespread implementation. Great piece, I love this Allie K. Miller 🙌🏻🙌🏻

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Schools with no teachers. I was expecting that, not so soon though. And read carefully please, "teachers assisst students, make $60.000-100.000 a year. It seems te be an average salary for the USA, but out of 4 teachers, probably only one will be employed then. 🤦♀️ 👀 #technology #educationinnovation #educationalleadership #artificialintelligence #ai #teachingenglish #teachingandlearning #teachingjobs #eslteacher #efl #esl #futureinnovation #generativeai

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Personalized education with #AI, while still early, the potential is promising

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Is the future of teaching fully AI based or maybe it’s just one version of the future? Will AI level the playing field for all in eduction or will it be for those that can afford it? Teaching is hard, there’s no doubt about that. It’s also hugely rewarding and nothing is quite like watching a young person grow, learn, reflect and adapt as they progress. Reflection is a key part so students can focus on their individual growth and perhaps this is where AI is most useful. A technology that can track and adapt learning to stretch the known and develop thoroughly the less well known would be a perfect use of AI. It’s what I’m looking forward too and something I would embrace to support my own teaching and the learning of my students.

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The nightmare is AI replacing teaching in school buildings instead of augmenting purpose-driven learning everywhere.Chatbot teachers don't help with student agency—that begins with teens training their AI Agents to represent them for school, work, and life.#AI #education #learningpathmakers

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Love this as a (more than) viable example of reimagining education in an AI world. At its centre it redefines the role of a teacher from content expert to a leader of learning.What are your thoughts?#aiineducation #reimagineeducation #education

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If you read The Gen Z Effect (published in late 2014, but amazingly, still selling 9 years later), you know I'm a big believer that traditional K-12 education systems aren't nearly focused enough on the capabilities and interests of the learners.Adaptive learning, learning of useful, daily skills, working in small and large teams... there is so much potential that's being buried in an avalanche of "that's how we've always done it."You know, the too slow, sometimes too fast, boring way of force-feeding "knowledge" into heads without tying any of it to reality...I came here this morning to drop a note on best practices I stumbled onto today:"I feel like everyone is so obsessed with finding 'best practices' that they never consider all that means is AVERAGE practices."Which came out of Jay Acunzo's lengthy (and awesome) email this morning about becoming a great speaker.That's a great line - and I'd add that today's best practices are very often tomorrow's WORST practices. The useful life of a "best practice" is MUCH MUCH SHORTER than people who tout best practices are willing to admit.Look around at the "best practices" for video calls that existed pre-March 2020 for example. Within a few months, those best practices were clearly... well, a good bit of garbage.Stay hungry for being BETTER than the best of the average!Hat tip to good friend Stephen Shapiro for his book, "Best Practices are Stupid" - which will (I hope) bend your mind even further away from accepting Best Practices as a go to guide to life/work!

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I like the idea of using AI in the classroom as part of instruction.

Reframing this so it’s a way to make the most of AI to increase learning, engagement, and retention and keeping “teacher” instead of calling them “guides” would be less clickbait-y, but just as effective. The sooner schools adopt these tools and make them work within their system (or adapt the system to work with AI), the better off the kids will be. If AI is able to engage kids on an individual level during a class with 30 kids and one teacher, it could be great. It’s so impossible to match the lecture or exercise to all individual student’s levels or preferred learning method simultaneously. If AI can do that, catch some kids up while challenging those who are ready to learn more, the whole class could be engaged. The teacher can manage this process and interact with the entire class on higher-level concepts and discussions. AI would be 1000% better than the worksheet model. Meet the kids where they are on a way that best suits their path to learning and knowledge. They will need to know how to use and interact with AI tools if they are to succeed in the future workplace—in every role, in every sector. For teachers, this could be amazing. And I know, an AI phys ed teacher sounds ridiculous, but even there, think about how many adults have embraced on-demand or connected fitness options and how closely those virtual coaches and pre-configured workouts could evolve into AI-generated workouts specifically configured and constantly adapted for a person’s goals, workout time, physiological response to the exercises and current health status. It’s no longer an “if” scenario. I can easily see this fitting into the current public school system. Even if just in pilot programs at first, evaluated against core curriculum measures. Can’t wait to see where this goes for students and teachers.