“To succeed with AI as an enhancement to learning and teaching, we need to always center educators (ACE). Practically speaking, practicing “ACE in AI” means keeping a humanistic view of teaching front and center. ACE is not just about making teachers’ jobs easier but also making it possible to do what most teachers want to do. That includes, for example, understanding their students more deeply and having more time to respond in creative ways to teachable moments.To bring more precision to how and where we should center educators, we return to our advocacy for human in the loop AI and ask, what are the loops in which teachers should be centered? Figure 5 suggests three key loops (inspired by research on adaptivity loops34):” (Cardona et al., 2023, p. 25)“
1. The loop in which teachers make moment-to-moment decisions as they do the immediate work of teaching. 2. The loop in which teachers prepare for, plan, and reflect on teaching, which includes professional development. 3. The loop in which teachers participate in decisions about the design of AI-enabled technologies, participate in selecting the technologies, and shape the evaluation of technologies—thus setting a context for not only their own classroom but those of fellow teachers as well.” (Cardona et al., 2023, p. 26)