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Only a few days ago the Atlantic reported that Google had refused to allow American schools an AI opt-out. theatlantic.com\/technol\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, that seems to have has changed a bit (not sure if this applies globally yet or just to Amerika). The new default<\/strong> will be AI off<\/strong>, BUT you can’t use Google Search<\/em>!<\/p>\n

Get that: no search without AI! The rationale seems to be that, for Google anyway, \u201cSearch and AI are deeply integrated”.<\/p>\n

But for some educators (many? all?) search without AI assistance is pedagogically sound<\/em> because there is still ‘friction’ in the learning (you can’t just copy the search results, they are raw material, but AI search gives you a well-formed synppsis).<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Google is supposedly bringing a new tool to the party, \u2018Guided Learning\u2019 that will \u2018assist\u2019 students in their use of AI (i.e. assistance on using the assistant!) and, no, you can’t turn GL off!<\/strong><\/p>\n

The story on this is here: aieducator.tools<\/a><\/span> (scroll down to the headline ‘Schools will Lose Google Search if they say no to Google AI’.<\/p>\n

This is one of those externalities that affects (limits, distorts) the choices open to education (ike budgets or choices about curriculum content). To what extent is Google – a private, commercial corporation – taking control of the classroom? We have moved far beyond the folksy startup culture of circa 1990-2010. \u201cDon\u2019t be evil\u201d was just a youthful feeling now discarded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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