3-Read Friday #118

Deepfake teachers, the scaffolding trap, and wait time

Here are three blog posts I found interesting this week:

1. Do Androids Dream of Electric Seating Plans? by Joel Kenyon

I love AI, and I’m genuinely excited about what it could do for teaching… which is exactly why a dystopian vision of it all going wrong has stuck with me all week. Joel imagines education in 2045: AI deepfake teachers trained on real staff, classes of 250, and human teachers reduced to minimum-wage behaviour monitors. Joel argues that when cost-cutting drives edtech, the relationship at the heart of teaching is the first casualty.

2. Scaffolding is a Trap by Dominic Salles

I also love a bit of “I Do, We Do”, so I was lured in by Dominic’s latest post. He argues that scaffolding — unless you plan its removal from the start — becomes the enemy of hard thinking. Tasks should be simple, he says, but thinking should be complex from minute one. He even reckons we’ve misread Rosenshine’s 80% all along.

3. Wait Time by Jonathan Nicolas Jarrett-Kerr

Jonathan makes the case for wait time — think time — as one of the most inclusive things a teacher can do, precisely because it’s so hard to hold your nerve. He argues it reaches well beyond questioning — into whiteboards and quizzes too. The tricky bit is judging how long.

Have a great weekend!
Craig

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