Why AI Won't Replace Teachers

Artificial Intelligence futurists are predicting that AI will provide students with an entirely personalized educational experience - one that has the potential to replace teachers. In this video, we explore the distinction between personalized learning (human-driven) and adaptive learning (AI-driven). Adaptive learning is algorithm-driven, with students progressing through pre-set curriculum and the AI making adjustments to their skill level based on their answers. Personalized learning, by contrast, is human-driven, with a focus on authentic, real-world problem-solving and collaboration. Both approaches have their place, but personalized learning is ultimately a more human-centered approach.

[@SEB1991SEB]

I think you have an extremely idealised view of teachers tbh, most of the teachers I've had were terrible and put me off the subject. The only reason they were necessary to me before was because if I tried teaching myself a subject by reading and researching, I'd always have questions that I'd need answering, and I'd have no one to ask (I couldn't find the answers online since they were too specific and niche, and no one seems to know the answer when I ask on sites like Quora). But now that I can ask the AI anything I want, and it always explains it far better than any human does whenever I ask them online, and explains it instantly, teachers are obsolete for me now (which is fantastic, since it opens the doors to education for me now since I don't have to pay for courses or private tutors). All the stuff you said about adaptive learning, etc. I think is unimportant. In the end, it's just someone explaining something to you. As long as they do that well, then I don't see why it's important whether it's a human or an AI.

[@clusterstage]

"A.I wont replace teachers" -said by a teacher in denial

[@am1475gr8]

Will you pls share for which subject did you use chatgpt?

[@ChrisCrous-bq1cf]

I think you're missing the point. Education is more about human interaction than it's about content. I feel sorry for you that you've never had inspirational teachers in your life. A good teacher can never be replaced by AI. The opposite idea is an idealistic view.

[@Usuariocool]

do you think preschool teachers can be replaced too?

[@linhteaches]

AI sometimes messes up and provides you with wrong information unless you have enough knowledge to discern between what's right and what's wrong. So when you're learning something AI might mess your learning up significantly

[@derek91362]

John, I am enjoying your videos. I think where you and differ is a matter of semantics. If I back up a bit, I see learning as an adaptiion response in the humans.We respond to stimulus ( information) through our senses and adjust or adapt accordingly to preserve life and/or maintain homeostasis. This usually involves feedback loops. So it's adaptive and personal. Even on structured classroom learning, the classroom is the environment where stimuli happens and learning takes place. Ultimately, the learning takes place in the students mind which effectively makes them all autodidacts of sorts. It's always adaptive and personal. The teacher serves as a facilitator by preparing the learning environments and coaxing stimili.

[@steelyray]

This is an important video to understand and share.

[@spencereducation]

Glad it resonated!

[@LeighZeitzDrZ]

John. I love your AI video. Makes an important distinction between personalized and individualized learning. What do you use to make your video?

[@spencereducation]

This is my process: spencerauthor.com/how-i-create-sketch-animation-videos/

[@bluesky5384]

I'm only speaking from working in the elementary level, but elementary schools need human teachers with the amount of social-emotional learning and care kids need today. AI can only do so much, but the human element is missing and that's what kids need.

[@spencereducation]

I agree. The human element is critical.

[@hamsternchips]

Great video John! Where you see AI fitting and not fitting is curiously aligned with where the teaching profession sees as bad and good teaching. I think sadly that AI will replace the majority of teachers unless we highlight those differences because as soon as 51+ percent of a state or federal legislature see the cost savings for good enough education we will live in the dystopia illustrated in books like Ready Player One.

[@spencereducation]

I think AI has the potential to be a really powerful dynamic learning resource. But it is just that -- a resource. My hope is we embrace a blended approach that centers on the human element rather than falling into the dystopia you describe.

[@mikeshoults4155]

We live in a society!!!! Its true. Collaborative learning is essential to learning how to live in a society. Those who know how to collaborate are much more effective than those who sit alone in front of a computer all day.

[@spencereducation]

Great point. Learning is inherently social and relational!

[@omiijaz1507]

Nice video.will you please share which subject you teach in college.Thanks.

[@spencereducation]

I teach education courses -- so preservice teachers.

[@chuckkoehler9526]

Alpha School in Austin uses guided coaches (not academic teachers) and kids spend 2 hours learning from AI software.

[@spencereducation]

I can see a time and place for adaptive learning but I wonder if 2 hours a day is too much.

[@chuckkoehler9526]

@@spencereducation wonder what the best is for kids? Germany and Finland have half days and score better. I think Alpha does 2 academic hrs for (whole day) on AI and life skills classes in the afternoon, but probably give kids more time to pursue other interests.

[@aiyt_teacher]

it depends who the teacher is and how he or she teaches

[@spencereducation]

Agreed. I think the quality of the teacher makes a huge difference.

[@clubadv]

Yeah, you need to revisit this claim. I have heard heads of AI companies even suggest that education and health are the largest impacted industry. Imagine individualized teachers for students on a computer ...

[@spencereducation]

I've seen those two industries mentioned for decades and yet both industries continue to have a labor shortage. I think people grossly underestimate what humans bring to the table, in terms of empathy, divergent thinking, and contextual knowledge. If anything, AI will become integrated into curriculum services and would replace things like worksheets, traditional textbooks, and other materials. But I doubt machine learning will replace teachers.

[@lancevance60]

It will.

[@octoman511]

not yet

[@howmathematicianscreatemat9226]

In about two years it will replace us

[@johnmguzman7491]

Thank you for posting. How can we connect with you? Email or IG? Social media?

[@arvindjoshi803]

AI can replace students not only teachers. One day the robot will directly take data from each other. The advancement of learning model

[@michaelscarn7375]

Based on these argument AI will definately replace teachers. Thanka for the heads up

[@user-qx5kw9pd4f]

Just think 100x of gpt4o or gpt 5

[@SynapseTutor]

This is gonna age like milk

[@clusterstage]

A.I will not replace teachers. It will only make teaching irrelevant. PAINFUL TRUTH: Teachers can still be teachers, only they are not necessary anymore.

[@clusterstage]

2023 is the worst A.I can ever be, and it will only get better from here. The problem with all your examples is that they don't upgrade like A.I does. Tools don't self-learn like A.I does. Gadgets don't self-evolve like A.I does. I like your animations but I don't understand why you can't see that 2023 is the worst A.I can ever be, and it will only improve from here. Incrementally.

[@mosthated.e.2422]

I disagree 2023 Ai has it tweaks for its early age but it is evolving.For example think about or talk about a topic and watch your algorithm pop up with it

[@ChrisCrous-bq1cf]

If you want to train and educate a race of robots who see black and white then you can rely soley on AI... But human interraction is also always evolving, and a sense of belonging can only be truly found within healthy social spheres of human interaction

[@spencereducation]

I think the example of chess shows where the strengths and weaknesses of human versus AI lie. A chessmaster using AI will nearly always beat out the algorithm alone. If that's true in a closed system like chess, how much more will that be true in dynamic systems where things like contextual knowledge comes in to play.

[@funkdrunk]

2 min. 30 sec. For me, AI, KZbin and Wikipedia replaced teachers 100%. I prefer the net than humans. Will I ever find some reason why I should work with humans for optimum progress? Apparently not this time. Good luck with the channel!

[@ChrisCrous-bq1cf]

Either you had terrible experiences with teachers growing up, or you have a dystopian future in mind (which is honestly the highest probability). You are, however, trying to eliminate a core element of what makes us "human" ... cultures and traditions form part of what a teacher does. We look up to a "human" with whom we can relate to, to inspire us to do great things as humans. We can read facial expressions and fine-tune our abilities to match our peers and unique community. Identity is a much bigger problem here than I think you understand. Teachers are a fundamental part of what makes us we who are, whether they're our parents or leaders. Considering that a dystopian society is most likely, your argument may have some power. If robots educate new generations, the elites will have much greater control over discipline and propaganda. However, I doubt humans will survive for that long.

[@spencereducation]

I hear what you're saying and I'm glad you found what worked for you. For some people, that will always be the case. When I was a kid, there were other kids who preferred self-paced worksheets via home school or hours in a library. And that's okay. If I had to guess, I would venture that the percentage of students who would prefer AI alone to in-person interaction with humans would be similar to those who prefer to learn everything via KZbin or Wikipedia. However, many people prefer a human connection and will need human skills in a workforce largely shaped by machine learning.

[@aum1040]

I see two big problems with what you present here: 1. AI is rapidly becoming capable of what you call personalized learning. We already have the core technologies necessary to support AI led free form discussions and responding to students' emotions and desires. While applying the technology will take some time (a decade, I think), it is inevitable. What you call adaptive learning has actually been within our technical capabilities for at least two decades. 2. You can't compare AI-learing to the very best efforts that modern teachers are capable of. You need to compare it to the average effort. There are vast advantages to personalized learning over adaptive learning in many contexts. However, in practice, very little actual K-12 education is remotely similar to what you call personalized learning. Even great teachers spend most of their time teaching in less personalized styles, and when they are doing "personalized learning" their efforts are split across the many children they have in their care. Average teachers rarely rise to this standard. And this is BEFORE we factor in cost, which strongly favors automation.

[@ChrisCrous-bq1cf]

Either you had terrible experiences with teachers growing up, or you have a dystopian future in mind (which is honestly the highest probability). You are, however, trying to eliminate a core element of what makes us "human" ... cultures and traditions form part of what a teacher does. We look up to a "human" with whom we can relate to, to inspire us to do great things as humans. We can read facial expressions and fine-tune our abilities to match our peers and unique community. Identity is a much bigger problem here than I think you understand. Teachers are a fundamental part of what makes us we who are, whether they're our parents or leaders. Considering that a dystopian society is most likely, your argument may have some power. If robots educate new generations, the elites will have much greater control over discipline and propaganda. However, I doubt humans will survive for that long.

[@spencereducation]

I'm sorry you have seen poor teaching modeled. I often see the opposite when I visit classrooms.

[@aum1040]

​@@spencereducation​Clearly both fantastic and awful teachers exist today. But because attention is spread across 20-30 students, fantastic classroom teaching is generally not up to the standard of a mediocre teacher working one on one with a student. And that is a standard that AI is very likely to exceed in the next 10 years, and perhaps much sooner.

[@Daniel_Massicotte]

All that was true a year ago, but today in MAY 2024, it is completely different, and in a year from now, this video will be completely wrong...

[@spencereducation]

I've lived through so many hype cycles. We heard the same thing with things like the internet and one to one computing. Yes, AI will evolve but it will likely replace aspects of curriculum design and delivery rather than teaching in general. In other words, it will replace textbooks or worksheets and will streamline the job of the teacher. But there are human elements that will still be necessary.

[@Daniel_Massicotte]

​@@spencereducation I was writting a long response to you comment, then moved my long comment to my text editor, because it was getting incredibly huge, then I will not post it here, but if you want to receive it in private, I will be happy to share my knowledge and experience with you... Yeah! that is what we do humans, when we are getting old and have accumulated a lot of experience and knowledge, we try to share it, maybe to give a meaning to this interresting experience but too short , life as human !!! ... Teaser ... I am programming and developing digital electronic circuit, since 1977...

[@GMindset959]

AI will most likely do a better job too.

[@spencereducation]

AI will always lack the empathy that teachers have.

[@AngelFlores-wr7to]

@@spencereducation Teacher to be: We are mostly advised nowadays to just transmit information and keep order in class, everything else is not our business ✌️

[@starwoodanime1532]

Eventually, AI will replace teachers. Teaching is becoming a dead career

[@spencereducation]

I've heard that for 30+ years with new iterations of technology.

[@BigRedBrent]

​@@spencereducation We have never in all of human history had AI that is even remotely as advanced as we currently do today, and it's advancing every year at an exponential rate. Within just the last year, AI has advanced by leaps and bounds. At this rate of advancement, if within 10 years we don't have AI that is absolutely capable of replacing a human teacher, I will be completely shocked. It's very likely that AI will become advanced enough within a couple of years from now. Anyone who thinks any differently, either doesn't understand the technology, or hasn't looked into how much AI technology has progressed in the last year.

[@ChrisCrous-bq1cf]

Either you had terrible experiences with teachers growing up, or you have a dystopian future in mind (which is honestly the highest probability). You are, however, trying to eliminate a core element of what makes us "human" ... cultures and traditions form part of what a teacher does. We look up to a "human" with whom we can relate to, to inspire us to do great things as humans. We can read facial expressions and fine-tune our abilities to match our peers and unique community. Identity is a much bigger problem here than I think you understand. Teachers are a fundamental part of what makes us we who are, whether they're our parents or leaders. Considering that a dystopian society is most likely, your argument may have some power. If robots educate new generations, the elites will have much greater control over discipline and propaganda. However, I doubt humans will survive for that long.

[@aaronmorber1943]

No it wont

[@mid5606]

😂😂😂

[@GMindset959]

This whole video is just pure cope.

[@spencereducation]

I've lived through the hype of all the previous tech that was supposed to replace teachers. It never did.