Let’s use AI to liberate students and create a personalized learning process

The tension AI has created within the traditional education system is absolutely fascinating, particularly if you have been in one discipline or the other for some time.

I have been working in education for 34 years, and it has been more than 12 years since I was present at the founding of an AI company and was able to stay on to assist in its development. It’s a powerful combination, and even more so because I have been lucky, as the famous Chinese curse says, to live in interesting times, that is, to witness many changes first hand.

There is a tug of war in education between those who want to exclude the use of generative AI tools, and those who believe in integrating them. Each side has its arguments, but if history is anything to go by, it will be the conservatives, those who seek to maintain “the essence of education”, even if it is by isolating it from the socio-economic or technological reality, who will win.

This is the reason why more and more teachers and parents want smartphones banned in schools: they prefer to maintain the status quo, rather than undertake an uncomfortable transition to integrate a potentially powerful tool into the educational process. Instead of using the power of these pocket computers in education horizontally, it is easier to…