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If AI takes the lead on imparting knowledge in schools, how does that change the role of teachers?

Name: If AI takes the lead on imparting knowledge in schools, how does that change the role of teachers?
Uploaded: 2025-11-13T14:01:06+00:00
Duration: 1 min 22 s
Channel: Michael Horn
Description: In this monologue, the speaker argues that as AI-driven instructional software becomes capable of delivering factual content—such as history, math, and…

13 Nov 2025 · 1 min

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In this monologue, the speaker argues that as AI-driven instructional software becomes capable of delivering factual content—such as history, math, and other knowledge—teachers will experience a profound transformation in their professional identity. The factual curriculum will be handled by one‑to‑one, adaptive software, allowing each student to learn at their own level with greater engagement. Consequently, teachers will move away from the traditional "sage on the stage" model toward roles centered on social‑emotional learning (SEL), facilitating discussion, collaboration, and interpersonal development. The speaker emphasizes that this shift will unfold over multiple decades as the technology matures, requiring schools to reimagine the teacher’s purpose and self‑image.

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But in schools, I think the teacher's role is going to move more towards a social worker focusing on social emotional learning and discussion and you know, the mere imparting of facts, you know, what was the history of the Roman Empire or how to do fractions, those kinds of things will be software. And so for teachers it's a huge change in their self image, which has always included social emotional learning and discussion, but was still based upon SAGE on a stage. And that's a pretty deeply embedded paradigm. And so trying to figure out what are the schools of the future where most of the fact base is building. And of course then the software advantage is that it's one to one and so it's really focused at the level that the kid is at. And first from that you get much more learning and engagement, but then recognizing that parents and kids want more out of school than learning the facts. And there's this incredible role to focus on around social emotional development, how to work with other human beings that I think teachers will be able to focus on. So you know, I would say that's going to be a multi decade change as the software gets better.