Bad Pedagogy

Category: When Analytics Does Not Work

There is a risk, writes Ilkka Tuomi (2018), "that AI might be used to scale up bad pedagogical practices. If AI is the new electricity, it will have a broad impact in society, economy, and education, but it needs to be treated with care." For example, badly constructed analytics may lead to evaluation errors. "Evaluation can be ineffective and even harmful if naively done 'by rule' rather than 'by thought'" (Dringus, 2012).

Even more concerning is how poorly designed analytics could result in poorly defined pedagogy. Citing Bowker and Star (1999), Buckingham Shum and Deakin Crick (2012) argue that "a marker of the health of the learning analytics field will be the quality of debate around what the technology renders visible and leaves invisible, and the pedagogical implications of design decisions." In particular, they focus on "the challenge of designing learning analytics that render visible learning dispositions and the transferable competencies associated with skillful learning in diverse contexts."

Examples and Articles

AI at the Classroom: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Sciforce, Dec 5, 2019. "Bringing Artificial Intelligence to classroom may not be always beneficial for schools and learners and their families." Direct Link

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