What No One Tells You About Artificial Intelligence and Education
I’ve never felt more excited in the classroom.
“Which courses are you teaching this year?”
When you ask this question to university professors, you will most likely receive a strange look. Education is not usually a topic they want to discuss. Instead, they are more interested in talking about their research projects, academic papers, or presentations they have to give at locations all over the world.
During lunch one day last week, I had to endure my colleague’s bragging about the academic conferences he was invited to attend at various exotic destinations over the next couple of years.
“Don’t you have to teach?” I asked him. “Isn’t teaching your main responsibility?”
He pulled a face.
“One of my teaching assistants will cover for me,” was his response.
He believed that teaching was an uninteresting task requiring minimal effort. I knew he used the same teaching materials and textbook for years, occasionally adding a new case or newspaper article to the mix.
“Just to keeping things up to date,” he would always say.
If possible, he would probably avoid teaching — and students — altogether.
