Then there are those who believe that it will slowly erode the need for human teachers or even the present model of schooling, which involves an adult in a classroom with 30 or so students, all of whom are roughly the same age.This is often referred to as the “factory” or “industrial” model of education, named for the time when learning allegedly moved out of the home and into large public institutions. It’s not so simple.
Salman Khan, founder of the Khan Academy, believes that gen AI heralds a true revolution. He founded Khanmigo by partnering with OpenAI, which developed both ChatGPT and DALL-E 2, an AI art generator. Cannily, if you will pardon the pun, Khan has marketed Khanmigo simultaneously to teachers and students.
There are good reasons to be sceptical about the next alleged revolution in education. Derek Muller, a superb science educator working online, has a 2014 video, The Most Persistent Myth, thatHe goes through all the innovations that were allegedly going to cause an educational revolution. For example, in the 1920s, Thomas Edison declared that the motion picture would “supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks.