Just a rant post. I work in a sixth form delivering A-Levels and the constant push for more tech use by both students and staff just seems insane. All students have laptops for every lesson which a significant proportion of them use for instant messaging, playing games and getting ChatGPT to do all their work for them - no thinking required.
Now us personal tutors have been told to turn all of our tutorial lessons (think PSHE, careers and Citizenship type stuff) into lessons on a specific online platform that students can do at their own pace. Use of sites like Blooket etc is ubiquitous. It's a bit of fun sure, but you can't tell me anyone has ever seriously learned anything from it. We are being encouraged to "generate" slop lessons or use pre-generated slop for tutorials when we have hand-made, tried and true sessions ready to go which have already performed highly in observations. It's an insult to our profession. Staff have even be told they can use AI to write their schemes of learning. Most staff CPD is about using AI. This is blatant corporate capture of the education system.
I feel utterly powerless to push back against any of this, but it just feels so devaluing. Who needs teachers when we have fancy online platforms and ChatGPT? God, I need a break. 😭