The screen-time debate’s blind spot
The point of AI is not to replace the teacher--it is to give her more of what he or she actually needs: time and structure
Last fall, during a professional development session I was running with a group of teachers in São Paulo, a fifth-grade teacher raised her hand and asked a question I have since heard in every country I work in: “I want to use AI to plan better lessons. But how do I do that without just putting kids in front of another screen?”
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