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Peter Macilwee Post 1

• 21 January 2026, 3:26 PM

AI in Education

Hi,

I tend to subjectively agree with the evidence presented in both articles but I would have to say Hodges and Ocak (2023) offer a more persuasive argument. They reason argument with comprehensive, reliable evidence for and against the integration of AI in education to support their point of inevitability. The guidance they cite is useful for us to think about legal and ethical frameworks.

Although I do agree with Mitchell-Yellin (2023) that AI will be counterproductive in terms of learner and societal health, it would be a bit like giving back the car for horse and carts. Increased well-being is never going to win over increased productivity in evolving modern societies, as sad as that is. They do have a compelling argument though and they could have cited evidence sources and increased the ‘face value’ of their article.

Peter

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Cath B Post 2 in reply to 1

• 25 January 2026, 6:48 PM

As an educator, it's hard to disentangle my own experience - which is that for significant numbers of students, use of Gen AI is undermining the acquiring of key subject skills and knowledge and more general valuable attributes such as problem-solving and persistence - from evaluating the arguments made.

Undoubtedly we can't put Gen AI back in its box but the societal shifts needed to use it constructively only, in a way that doesn't undermine human skill development and indeed integrity, will be substantial