Building educator power to shape AI | TUC

“It’s sort of helping with my workload. But not really with my job satisfaction. And I’m not sure what it’s doing to my student’s learning experience”. These words of a teacher and workplace trade union rep exemplify the knotty issues thrown up by the confluence of emergent AI, a struggling education system and diverging perspectives and philosophies of education. The fact that the person is now a former teacher underscores the challenges for education as whole. Among that complexity, one thing is for certain: technology is not merely a matter for technicians.  In the education context, AI’s development and usage cannot be positive without the voice and expertise of educators, and their representative unions. These millions of educators - support staff, teachers, school leaders - retain the deep embodied knowledge and experience of education and their students. As it is and who they are in way that a decontextualised and predictive model cannot. They are professionals, whose skill and

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• Joice Tang