machine learning models: Your Next Teacher Might Be an Algorithm (And That’s a Good Thing)
Your Next Teacher Might Be an Algorithm (And That’s a Good Thing) I spent the first five years of my career as a high school English teacher. I loved the "aha!" moments, the debates, the Socratic seminars. What I didn't love was spending every Sunday buried under a mountain of 150 essays, my red pen bleeding dry, my feedback getting less and less insightful by essay number 87. I remember thinking, "There has to be a better way to handle the mechanics so I can focus on the minds ." That frustration led me out of the classroom and into the world of educational technology. For the last decade, I've been on the other side, working with school districts and universities to implement the very tools I once wished for. And let me tell you, what's happening right now with machine learning models in education isn't just an upgrade—it's a tectonic shift. We're moving past the clunky "EdTech" of the 2010s (think glorified PDFs and digital f...