Look—if it were that easy to produce those kinds of learning gains, I’d be thrilled. But we know from decades of research that you don’t get t

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Look—if it were that easy to produce those kinds of learning gains, I’d be thrilled. But we know from decades of research that you don’t get that kind of effect size from one-off teacher professional development. It doesn’t happen. The booklet then? Of course not. So it has to be artificial intelligence creating those results and, I am very sorry, but please look at what these kids are doing with Copilot.

Students are asking Copilot to generate learning materials (e.g., examples of antonyms) that have existed for centuries. You can find examples of antonyms in print textbooks. You can find examples of antonyms in YouTube videos. You can type “examples of antonyms” into Google and get resources that are indistinguishable from what they’re generating with AI.

Can we be serious here? Can we take education just a little seriously? Can we put away childish things and ask ourselves: does this look better than 80% of interventions?