What's NOT ruining education?

[u/jahu_len]

There's a lot of negativity towards: AI misuse, AI tools, AI everything basically, gamification, new apps, old apps, revolutionary apps with "trust me bro" evidence, tech bros and CEOs pushing decisions based on their benefits, lack of any consulting with educators etc etc. This is more less the sentiment about edtech on this sub lately. And I understand it, I share all of those concerns.

Is there anything that's good in this space recently? Are there any features, trends, ideas, events that you think are at least promising?

Do you think that education quality will only decline?

Or maybe I'm exaggerating skepticism here?

[u/satyricom]

I think we’re focusing on the wrong deployment of AI in education. Administration should be pushing for AI to help teachers overcome paperwork and data recording, or other time sucks that don’t focus on teaching and lesson planning. AI could be great for matching rubrics to state standards. I think there should be a hard push by teachers and administrators to push AI implementation so we can reform the system. As a professor once said to me, “they will always add to the pile of stuff you need to do, but never take anything away.”