Tech a Tool, Not Teacher: Experts Warn on AI Use
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New Delhi: Top educators from around the world assembled at the STTAR Global Education Conference to clearly warn in a rapidly changing educational scene that is influenced by generative artificial intelligence: Tech should remain a tool and not the teacher. The conference, which focused on “Human First, Tech Forward”— Highlighting the essential need of children to grow up knowing technology, the “New Balance in Education” warns against the risks of unbridled artificial intelligence use.
The main topic under debate was the fear that letting technology rule may undermine human agency. Head of the Skill Education and Training wing of the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), Biswajit Saha warned that “technology threatens mankind when it becomes the master.” He stressed that even while technology is vital in modern education, its usage must be tempered with care and tight monitoring—especially by parents and teachers.Anyone who has to understand how children use technology. Among the key figures in India’s educational scene at the conference was TG Sitharam, newly chosen chairman of the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE). Among them was the organization governing technical education in India, the Shiksha Garima Award winner said that although technological revolutions will continue, their use Will vary according the proper direction. He recalled that only around 1% of India’s people pursued further education many decades ago but that number has now grown to 11%. Highlighting the great changes occurring in education, he projected it would achieve 50% by 2035.
Development brings duties as well. Expressing worries about the shortening attention spans of kids in the digital age, Shishir Jaipuria, Chairman of the Seth Anandram Group of Institutions, stressed “We must embrace technology in order to change with the times, but adoption of technology shouldn’t come at the price of meaningful thought or human interaction.” Still, he said, “we must also humanize it,” therefore supporting a education that preserves human values, empathy, and reflection.
Learning’s core problem in the era of artificial intelligence is “What and how,” according to Sanjay Jain, the director of Google for Education India. Artificial intelligence helps us to learn. He claimed that artificial intelligence could empower teachers, as by finding students who are lagging behind and assisting to support them ,as long as it enhances rather than substitutes human teaching.
Vinod Malhotra, the head of STTAR (Saamarthya Teachers Training Academy of India), restated the notion that technology is a strong assistant rather than a substitute. Research). He claimed, “Technology is a great helper, but it is not the master,” therefore emphasizing the need of human judgment and supervision in instruction.
Starting with awareness at the primary school level of education, the conference underlined how crucial it is to incorporate artificial intelligence in schools. Teachers and parents must be diligent in helping kids develop ethical, responsible engagement habits; children must be instructed how to navigate digital tools, not only how to use them. Particularly as artificial intelligence becomes more generally accessible and incorporated into daily learning, resist too much dependency. The demand was loud and clear. Rather than replace instruction, technology should improve it.
