Teachers who positioned AI as a partner remained instructional leaders, weaving the tool into rich instruction and using score data to decide what to re-teach¶
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q2 i? Partner-positioned teachers viewed themselves as instructional leaders with AI as one of many tools, and used score data to determine what to stop and re-teach, which resources to provide, or which students needed extra help. → Hillary Greene Nolan 2024
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Hillary Greene Nolan 2024¶
Hillary Greene Nolan, Ph.D, Merijke Coenraad, Ph.D, Viki Young, Ph.D. (2024). Teaching Partner, Grading Assistant, Substitute Teacher: Three Ways Teachers Positioned an Artificial Intelligence Tool in Writing Instruction. Digital Promise, Center for Inclusive Innovation. https://digitalpromise.dspacedirect.org/items/4f2d86a3-9b66-4538-a5ad-977bb8fbacf7 doi:10.51388/20.500.12265/226
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Qualitative findings from teacher interviews in the Topeka study. Partner teachers described instruction as a patchwork of self-made and Topeka materials, with one noting "I still teach the same way" despite valuing quick feedback, and used data for re-teaching decisions.
"Teachers who positioned AI as a partner also used score data in more sophisticated ways, such as using it to determine what to stop and re-teach, which resources to provide, or which students needed extra help."
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Related Claims¶
- Trust in AI varied by positioning: partners saw bias and assigned their own grades, while substitutes trusted AI scores as actual grades — related
- The focus of teacher-student interactions differed by AI positioning: learning for partners, score-increasing for assistants, completion for substitutes — related
- Partner-positioned teachers built students' AI literacy, while assistant and substitute teachers' transparency centered on gaming scores — related
- Among 24 Topeka teachers, half positioned the AI as a teaching partner, 29% as a grading assistant, and 21% as a substitute teacher — related
- Teachers at convenings said the three AI approaches are fluid rather than static, with movement across approaches as experience grows — related
- Awareness of how learners' conceptual representations deviate from native-speaker preferences can help teachers decide where to focus classroom attention, promoting conceptual fluency — related
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Teachers who positioned AI as a partner remained instructional leaders, weaving the tool into rich instruction and using score data to decide what to re-teach |
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Teachers who positioned AI as a partner remained instructional leaders, weaving the tool into rich instruction and using score data to decide what to re-teach |
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