David TrussWant to learn a complex concept? AI will do two things for you. First it will curate your learning for you. And secondly it will be adaptive to your learning needs. Want to learn a complex mathematical concept? AI will be your teacher. Got stuck on one particular concept? AI will realize what mistake you are making and change how it teaches you that concept to better meet your leaning needs, and pace.
It’s like having content area specialists at your finger tips.
Source: Micro-learning in 2025 by David Truss
Clearly artificial intelligence tools are and will have an impact in and out of the classroom. What that impact is, I am not sure. However, I have been left thinking about a comment from Simon Willison I picked up via Doug Belshaw:
The key skill in getting the most out of LLMs is learning to work with tech that is both inherently unreliable and incredibly powerful at the same time. This is a decidedly non-obvious skill to acquire!
There is so much space for helpful education content here, but we need to do do a lot better than outsourcing it all to AI grifters with bombastic Twitter threads.
Source: Things we learned about LLMs in 2024 by Simon Willison
I also appreciated Stephen Downes’ response to the promise.
Truss argues that this will have an impact in classrooms. Maybe. But AI will be as welcome in classrooms as the plague. I mean, they're banning phones. Students will be the last to use AI as part of what they do, not the first.
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As always, time will tell.