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Nancy's avatar

Another explosive analysis that lays bare the structure of man vs. machine. The unseen becomes visible in this commentary. The power of human emotion and biology vs the unrelenting mechanistic challenges of AI. Unless educators embrace painful reality with a mind and heart to wrestle with new challenges, the students in the system will emerge very underserved. In a very real sense, the teacher must require of himself even more than he requires from students. That is very painful. And yes. I used himself in the universal sense of mankind. Enough puffery. Machines are cold to gender. We are all human regardless of gender. It’s time to deal with the real. Our sensibilities must adjust to cold reality and refuse to submit to apocalyptic fatalism. This generation deserves our best and I am convinced that those who rise to the challenge will also reap the rewards. If anything, AI intensifies that equation.

Dr. Rockmore's avatar

Great commentary! The real pain for me is realizing how challenging it is for me to be and feel effective in today's classroom. I feel like no one, students, teachers, parents, or administrators really have any cohesive sense of need and direction. When you study it deeply as I have, the prospects are absolutely terrifying - but most people are not understanding the magnitude of what has been presented.