This article addresses an ongoing review of the the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers but at the same time uses the exercise to differentiate between what teachers and AI can do. Obviously everything suffers from overreach here, but the exercise is still worth a look. For example, how do we depict Standard 1, "know students and how they learn"? Kelly Ilich responds, "Being modelled by a system is different from being known by a trusted adult," which is true, but how often does the adult simply fall back on a common stereotype? And how limited are modern AI models, really? Similarly, for Standard 2, "know the content and how to teach it." it makes sense to "emphasise the teacher as a designer, interpreter and responsible steward of knowledge," but what happens when doing these properly requires skills well beyond the ken of the average instructor? Yes, with Ilich, I think the test should be to ask "what must teachers now be and do so that children flourish in a world shaped by it?" but my focus is on society, not only teachers.
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