No exaggeration, this is one of the best-reasoned pieces of writing on what teachers are being asked to give up in order to possibly gain productivity through classroom genAI tools. I’ll be using this paper in class soon.
"We argue that current mainstream AI tools will reduce the number and depth of teacher-student interactions, increase the distance between teachers and students, and alienate teachers by transforming their role in the classroom," write Michał Wieczorek and Fabio Tollon.
In today’s @civicsoftech.bsky.social blog, thought leaders @michalwieczorek.bsky.social and @eam0.bsky.social share a resource for facilitating a workshop using speculative co-design methods to reimagine educational technology that'll supercharge your critical edtech sensemaking skills x 1000!
The use of AI in school settings has received widespread attention in recent years. However, there are many unresolved practical and ethical issues surrounding educational AI. In this paper, we contri...
Civics of Technology Announcements Annual Conference : We are holding our 5th Annual Conference on August 6th-7th, 2026! Our keynotes this year are Dr. Meredith Broussard (data journalist & aut...
Do you need another argument for why AI is Bad? @michalwieczorek.bsky.social and I have a new paper. We argue that the productivity calculus often used to justify edtech interventions is systematically blind to the role that moral entanglement, care and relational work play in education.
The only acceptable AI use policy you need: smallsheds.garden/blog/2026/on...
"We argue that current mainstream AI tools will reduce the number and depth of teacher-student interactions, increase the distance between teachers and students, and alienate teachers by transforming their role in the classroom," write Michał Wieczorek and Fabio Tollon.
In a new paper with @ftollon.bsky.social, I argue that proposals to increase teachers' productivity through automation overlook the relational value of many educational practices. Good teaching is not possible without care and we should keep emphasising that.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
I just published a response to a recent commentary on my “Why AI will not democratize education” paper. In short: the political-economic reality of AI is likely to jeopardise any attempts to use this tech in pedagogically constructive ways.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
www.theverge.com/tldr/897566/...
The use of AI in school settings has received widespread attention in recent years. However, there are many unresolved practical and ethical issues surrounding educational AI. In this paper, we contri...
The use of AI in school settings has received widespread attention in recent years. However, there are many unresolved practical and ethical issues surrounding educational AI. In this paper, we contri...
link.springer.com
This is a response to "Why the User-Friendliness of AI Undermines Education. Commentary on Wieczorek 2025" by Dekker and Hermans. While I agree with many of the arguments made by the authors and sympa...
