We believe in the power of responsible AI for education and we’re thrilled that more and more schools are choosing to embrace AI solutions.
TeachMateAI was built by teachers, for teachers with the aim to reduce teacher workload, promote better work/life balance and support student learning through responsible AI. But we often get asked, “when is the best time in a teachers’ career for AI to be introduced?”
The Times Education Supplement (TES) wrote a brilliant, thought-provoking article recently on just that, featuring our ongoing project with the Manchester Primary PGCE team.
As part of the project, this year’s UoM cohort will have access to Teachmate to help them with everything from lesson planning to resource creation or generating assessment ideas. The university team are researching the impact of Teachmate to see how it impacts teacher training long-term.
As AI is a relatively new and fast-changing technology we understand that people will have concerns and questions regarding using it. One of the points raised in the article was that using AI may limit trainee teachers’ core skills by, for example, planning their lessons for them.
Here are some common misconceptions around using AI in teaching (at any level):
Teachmate exists to help teachers with the heavy lifting and time-consuming admin that for years has been synonymous with the teaching profession. Using an AI assistant doesn’t “do all the work for you”. The platform requires professional input and oversight from our teachers and it works in tandem with their knowledge and expertise. We pride ourselves on being fully GDPR compliant – All our data is stored securely in the UK. We don’t take or store our users’ data – Our user’s input data is not stored or used by anyone, neither TeachMateAI nor OpenAI. The output data is retained by us for 28 days only so that the user can access their generation history.
Co-Founder Jon Chippindall said: “We’re thrilled to be working with The University of Manchester to explore the introduction of AI in supporting trainee teachers. The research project will explore timely questions around when and how it is best to introduce the use of AI in planning lessons and creating resources; including the specific challenges to trainees evaluating AI generated content.”