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Fritz Swanson @fritzswanson.bsky.social · 6d

It’s like the people pushing AI don’t know or care how humans work. We relate through shared effort and shared struggle. Teachers want to be understood, students want to understand. Each learns from and instructs the other. That IS the relationship.

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · Jul 21

Is AI helping or harming your work?

From classroom tools to performance monitoring, over 1,700 UCU members shared how AI is creeping into every corner of post-16 education.

Read the full report on how AI is already impacting members’ working lives: tr.ee/rldkpe

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jul 11

No human doctor has the time to do real-time tracking of all their patients' data. This is clearly predicated on diagnosis and prescription carried out by AI doctors too.

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jul 3

I'm increasingly of the opinion that measuring time saved on specific tasks misses the point entirely - we need to ask if and how that notional time saved is actually used instead.

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jul 3

The pick'n'mix statement bank approach to report writing, much loathed by parents, has paved the way for this further automation.

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peterkwells @peterkwells.com · Jul 3

There's multiple AI/automation discussions around UK public sector where you can see this simplistic multiplication of "potential savings for a human tasks" by "number of tasks" going on

Kinda fine if it's just for PR, but if ppl are building it into business cases then could easily damage services

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jul 3

The important question isn't whether time can be shaved off a specific task, but how that time is then used, and the experience or impact on *overall workload*

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jul 2

Just heard from a teacher, because AI can speed up report writing, they are now given less time to do it, and expected to do more. Claims that AI will solve teacher workload crisis needs to look at how automated productivity has played out for workers in the past #luddite #praxis

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jul 1

Another uninvited and unwelcome AI intrusion that actively subtracts rather than adds value. Nobody asked for or needs this! Who benefits from this?

Lawrie @lawriephipps.co.uk · Jul 1

This morning this was in my in box. I don't know where to start!

screenshot of an email from Academia.edu saying that an AI wrote a review of my paper

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 30

And yes, maybe this could be helpful as a scaffold for going on to read the chapter in more depth. But really - how likely is that to actually happen in the context of current university education?

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 30

As well as not really an accurate summary of the argument.

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 30

The summary of Ch.8 in Digital Timescapes by @robkitchin.bsky.social is so bland it's useless: 'The development and adoption of digital devices and technologies are reshaping the temporal relations and organization of work and labour, leading to new dynamics such as the gig economy and automation.'

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 30

How are we supposed to continue encouraging deep reading, when our library's ProQuest Ebook Central has a 'Research Assistant' AI summary of the book chapter popping up at every moment like an unwelcome and uninvited guest.

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ESRC Digital Good Network @digitalgoodnet.bsky.social · Jun 26

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher to contribute to our work on how we can evaluate whether digital technologies have good societal outcomes - the Digital Good Index.

We set out some ideas about how the DGI might take shape on our website: digitalgood.net/dg-research/...

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 16

Quite!

Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 16

And just ... why bother being a teacher if you spend more time fact-checking text extrusion machine outputs than developing your own thinking?

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 16

Transparency and accountability are core professional principles, but the responsibility is entirely placed on education staff.
Why let providers and companies off the hook like this?
Doing this thoroughly and consistently will likely take *more time* than that saved (so it won't get done)

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 16

The new DfE guidance for teachers stresses that *you* (the teacher) are at all times wholly 'responsible for both the input and output of AI tools'. Who's responsible for the bit in the middle?!

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Alex Ford @apf102.bsky.social · Jun 13

Among the many horrific things I have heard recently - I just discovered that Oak National has an AI lesson planning tool. But my absolute favourite bits are that a) it gets stuff wrong b) it suggests hilariously bad tasks and c) it's literally no help unless you already know the history

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 12

This looks great! Would be great to use this for discussions with my Digital Education masters students.

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 10

*rolls eyes forever*

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 10

AI as a teacher time saver is largely a mirage once you add all the additional work accompanying it

Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · Jun 10

Whether this AI guidance will be good for schools is debatable - what is not is that points 5 - 9 are massive asks of schools: teach AI literacy, address bias and hallucinations, ensure transparency, protect IP, privacy and safety, and train teachers on emerging risks. That'll fill the time saved.

Schools Week @schoolsweek.bsky.social · Jun 10

Schools could use AI to help write letters to parents, give feedback to pupils and come up with ideas for lessons, new government guidance says

Here's everything leaders need to know ...

schoolsweek.co.uk/school-ai-to...

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 10

Perfectly succinct statement of the problem with AI fuelled research and learning.

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · Jun 10

When will they give up on the fantasy of knowing without thinking

Dr Lucy Rycroft-Smith @honeypisquared.bsky.social · Jun 10

We found that AI tools - both general like #ChatGPT and research-specific like #Elicit - lack the reliability, relevancy and accuracy to summarise research for teachers. This is important because we have been sold the idea that AI will make research more accessible.

Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 9

Which raises an obvious question ... why so much energy, resource and rush to AI-ify it all? Which teacher voices are being heard and amplified by political and tech interests?

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Lyndsay Grant @lyndsayg.bsky.social · Jun 9

Very interesting counter to all the 'tech/AI will solve education' hype - a small-scale survey found that a majority of US teachers do NOT expect technology to improve pupil outcomes, behaviour, attendance, or teacher satisfaction. teachertapp.com/articles/tea...

Teacher burnout, improvements and hopes for new tech - Teacher Tapp

Hey Teacher Tapp Community! Week 24 and the Teacher Tappers are still growing! Another week, another amazing round of insights from our growing Teacher Tapp community! … Continued

teachertapp.com

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