Chapter 5: Teaching Figure 8: The tension between human and AI decision making: Who is in control? Figure 8 expresses the tension around control. To the left, the teacher is fully in control, and there is no use of AI in the classroom. To the right, the technology is fully in control with no teacher involved—a scenario which is rarely desirable. The middle ground is not one dimensional and involves many choices. Molenaar analyzed products and suggests some possibilities: ●The technology only offers information and recommendations to the teacher. ●The teacher delegates specific types of tasks to the technology, for example, giving feedback on a particular math assignment or sending out reminders to students before an assignment is due. ●The teacher delegates more broadly to the technology, with clear protocols for alerts, for monitoring, and for when the teacher takes back control. These and other choices need to be debated openly. For example, we may want to define instructional decisions that have different kinds of consequences for a student and be very careful about delegating control over highly consequential decisions (for example, placement in a next course of study or disciplinary referrals). For human in the loop to become more fully realized, AI technologies must allow teacher monitoring, have protocols to signal a teacher when their judgment is needed, and allow for classroom, school, or district overrides 52 | P a g e
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