Skip's Edtech Jobs: April 13, 2024

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I know the classroom is impossibly tough right now — the Pew Report I shared on LinkedIn only hit some of the highlights I hear about regularly.

You’re all doing amazing work for your students, keeping them safe, heard, and sometimes even fed. I’m glad that as you think about your next career, you still want to make a difference for your students — at a wider scale, with greater capacity. Edtech is going to be a better place because of all the educators moving into it.

But I also hope we (society writ large) can create a viable career path for the educators who continue to work in our schools, keeping our kids nourished, supported, and inspired. Because that work is something many of us still enjoy, and it should be as financially and professionally rewarding as other career paths.

~I hope you find some fantastic jobs to apply to this weekend,
Chelsea

Last Week’s Poll

Last week I asked people how you were using AI in the classroom and so many of you are. One reason I asked is because of the uptick in AI edtech companies (or edtech companies adopting AI), and the other is that AI is quickly becoming a necessary business skill, we just have figured out what that looks like yet! But it’s a great trend to be on top of and be able to talk about how you’re using it in your professional life.

Many readers shared some great use cases — writing assessments and rubrics, organizing multiple preps and avoiding all that repetitive copy and pasting, writing recommendation letters, and to create sample writing exemplars. These all work well because you’ve created the content and you’re asking AI essentially to reorganize it — or to write samples that don’t need to be stunning prose.

Two people shared how they use it for task initiation to generate outlines and organize ideas. One found that it didn’t really produce creative ideas, “the results were very generic, common-knowledge type activities that any science teacher would know about.”

AI has a lot of promise and right now the folks who are using it well have figured out how to automate or standardize routine tasks and then ask ChatGPT to do them. Which is hard for highly personalized and creative work like much of what we do — but it’s great for taking that creative work we do and matching it with standards or filling out lesson plans and other documentation-type work.

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