Edtech Throwdown Episode 223: Survey Says! The Top 5 AI Power Moves for Teachers

Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown. This is Episode 223 called Survey Says! The Top 5 AI Power Moves for Teachers. In this episode, we’re putting 100 educators on the board to reveal the game-changing ways teachers are using artificial intelligence to personalize learning, crush admin work, and transform the classroom. This is another episode you don’t want to miss, Check it out.

Segment 1:

School is back in session, AI bots are escaping their sandboxes to destroy the world, tech is being banned from classrooms, and we are playing Family Feud   

Segment 2:

Survey Says! We asked 100 teachers: "What’s the biggest mistake educators make when using AI to plan lessons?" Here are the top 5 answers:

#1

Copy-Pasting Without Editing (Treating the rough AI draft as a final, ready-to-teach lesson) 38

#2

Giving Lazy or Vague Prompts (Asking for a lesson without specifying grade, time, or standards) 26

#3

Not Fact-Checking the AI (Letting "hallucinations" and wrong answer keys reach students) 18

#4

Leaking Student Privacy / PII (Typing real student names or IEP data into public models) 11

#5

Assuming Standards Alignment Is Accurate (Blindly trusting fake Common Core/state tags) 7

Survey Says! We asked 100 students: "What is the top reason you HATE AI-generated classroom activities?"  Here are the top 5 answers:

Top 5 answers are on the board!

Rank

Answer

Points

#1

Feels Robbed of Human Connection & Effort (Knowing the teacher spent 5 seconds making a task they have to spend hours on) 36

#2

Double Standards & Hypocrisy (Teachers using AI to build assignments while banning students from using it) 24

#3

Boring, Generic "Robotic" Writing (Bland reading passages, repetitive questions, and lack of teacher personality) 19

#4

Unclear or Broken Logic (Glitching instructions, incorrect answer keys, or weird "hallucinated" facts) 12

#5

Irrelevant & Miscalibrated Difficulty (Tasks that miss the actual grade level or feel like pointless busywork) 9

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• AI For Teachers, Admin, and Parents
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• EdTech Throwdown
• TargetED Learning
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