Want to make teaching suck even more? Just wait until AI generated lesson plans are the norm.

Eventually, we will be replaced by AI. While I hope that day is far in the future, we are getting closer and closer. AI is currently capable of so many things that used to require human intelligence. The more I see AI integrated into our classrooms, the more I realize that it is only a matter of time before we will be out of a job. <br><br>Imagine this: Instead of your school district creating this really cool "project-based" curriculum, they buy a subscription to an AI curriculum provider. They assign you a pre-written AI lesson plan for each day. The AI lesson plan can be tailored (it claims) to your specific classroom's strengths, weaknesses, and needs. It can provide AI generated assessments.<br><br>It doesn't matter if you enjoy teaching your lessons; you will be told to teach what the machine tells you. It doesn't matter if you hate teaching that leased curriculum from a big publishing company; you will be told to teach what the machine tells you. If the AI thinks you should be teaching cursive, then you will teach cursive. If the AI thinks that your students need more remedial work, then you will teach remedial. If the AI thinks that your students are too far behind, then you will just have to teach what the AI thinks is most important. <br><br>It will start with "suggested" lesson plans. Then it will start with AI-generated assessments. It will start with "suggested" grades. It will start with AI "checks" on your lesson plans. Then, it will start with AI evaluation and AI suggestions on your teaching. It will start with AI-powered student discipline. <br><br>Of course, the proponents of AI in the classroom will say that it is to "help" with student individualization, assessment, and intervention. But what it is actually doing is helping big business and administrators who don't have any experience in the classroom. The AI curricula will be expensive. Almost as expensive as a teacher. And if schools can justify replacing teachers with AI, then they will. <br><br>Eventually, we will be told that we are no longer needed in our own classrooms.