While AI raises plenty of unanswered questions, one certainty is that specific human abilities are about to be forfeited en masse in exchange for some efficiency.
The education world is at a crucial crossroads. The advent of GenAI seems to have occurred only a moment ago, yet the movement has already produced a crisis in higher education, a meltdown in at least one K12 district and significant ongoing disruption in the ed tech space that few firms are truly prepared to grapple with. This innovation is just too new and moving too fast.
Throughout the halls of academia, the prevalence of pearl clutching has significantly increased, while student usage of GenAI (including for cheating) has been dramatically outpacing usage by the faculty.
All that to say, the question looming over all of us remains: What does the future hold?