I grow frustrated with the sudden realisation that empathy, resilience, critical and creative thinking are new skills. Schools have been teaching this for decades....

🧵Wither the essay? I see proponents of AI in education point to an adequate AI essay and argue that teachers and learning to write essays, are pointless and should be a thing of the past. And while there is much to critique with how essay writing is currently taught, hear me out:

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When boundaries between work and leisure fade so does our imaginative capacity to think beyond our job, and so what we do, becomes the sole basis of who we are.

Wither the nuance in inclusion? Different students of varied backgrounds each with a diversity of challenges require supports, material and human resources and strategies that enable success. It demands time, resources and an understanding that what works for one will not work for all. #bced

We have outsourced thought so we no longer think.

We have forgone competence so there is no value in expertise.

We have lost trust so the truth doesn’t matter.

We subscribe to everything but have conviction in nothing.

There is despair, but still we hope.