Navigating the Role of AI in Math Education

Among the most controversial topics in AI is just this: What role do we want AI to have in teaching and learning math? In this episode of Future Fluent, Betsy Corcoran and Jeremy Roschelle talk with Dan Meyer, one of the most outspoken and thoughtful critics of math education and how we're using technology. Learning isn't just "knowledge work," or pouring facts into students heads, Dan says. It's social work. And can --or should-- AI help with that? 

Ready to dive in? Check out these great resources on teaching math and artificial intelligence.

• Mathworlds, a substack by Dan Meyer 
• “Teachers Told Us They’ve Used AI in the Classroom. Here’s Why.” EducationWeek
• “Using Artificial Intelligence Tools in K-12 Classrooms,” RAND 
• “Is there a problem with Mathbots?” EdSurge 
• Hack Education, blog by Audrey Watters 
• GSV’s AI News & Updates (substack), by Claire Zao

What’s Your Ed At, blog by Edward Zitron

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