The latest issue of WORLD Magazine included a thought-provoking article about the use of AI in education, titled ChatGPA. Here are a couple of specific quotes that I especially appreciated:
“[The explosion of AI] is a crisis point challenging cultural assumptions about the purpose of education and spurring Christian teachers to carefully consider what it means to be human. They’re striving to help students catch a different vision for learning – one focused more on who young people are becoming than what they can produce.”
“It’s not about information transfer, it’s more about whole person transformation.”
We are blessed as piano teachers in the sense that it would be pretty impossible for one of our students to use AI to cheat their way through a piano lesson! However, it’s still valuable to ponder our role as teachers in not just focusing on what our students can produce, but on who they are becoming as people. What a privilege that we get a front row seat often for many years to see them transformed lesson-by-lesson as they grow in both skills and character.
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