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David Longman urges us to pay closer attention to the changes educational technology is bringing down the line
The automation of professional expertise is at a tipping point – and education may be the next to succumb. Machine learning (often loosely referred to as AI) lies at the heart of this transformation. It makes possible the automation of judgements that usually rely on teachers’ accumulated wisdom.
Neil Selwyn’s book is a measured and accessible discussion of how new computational tools might change or diminish a teacher’s professional expertise in both knowledge and relationships. He argues that a wider critical debate about the impact of automation in crucial areas such as assessment, pastoral support and content teaching is overdue, because “it is worrying that…[it] is not already provoking great consternation and debate throughout education”.
While the traditional boundaries of the management and organisation of higher education have been opened to the influence and investment of many external...