Monterrey, NL.- Paulo Blikstein, director of the Research Lab of the Institute for the Future of Education of the Technological of Monterrey, said that it is cheaper to have teachers and technology working hand in hand, than the development of an application or artificial intelligence tool For education.
“Sometimes the best is the combination of humans and artificial intelligence, sometimes it is even more economical than developing a tool that has to be 99.99 percent precise,” he said during the IFE Conference 2025.
“There is talk that humans are supposedly expensive (in education) and people say that if we can do things with artificial intelligence, we can now do it on a scale,” said the exprofesor in Stanford University.
“I want to challenge that point of view because if we see how much Silicon Valley companies spend to create these tools are billions of dollars and we say humans are costs,” he said.
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He added that technologists think that teaching is only an explanation, so they build issues that almost always fail mainly for a misunderstanding.
We know for the research that the mass and open online courses (MOOCs) failed spectacularly in democratizing education, although they worked and served in some contexts and for some audiences, he explained.
He pointed out that the MOOCs did not deliver free online high quality education for all, and that compression rates are very low and only worked for 5 percent of people with the highest education, but not for those who need the most.
“Another big problem is that the best use of education technology is when teachers are coordinating the use of technology and is not the technology promoting a process,” recalled the former confounder and former director of the Lemann Center for Entrepreneurship and Educational Innovation in Brazil in Brazil , dedicated to the transformation of Brazilian public education.
“The processes are facilitating with the use of technology for the specific purpose in the classroom of the place where they are basically a small gear in the largest machine,” he said.
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That’s when technology works better, when teachers are in charge and are using for specific purposes, he said.
He declared that some people have the fantasy that an 11 -year -old is going to run home to open the laptop and will say that it will spend all afternoon learning mathematics on their own.
“That is not what the 11 -year -old boys do, since they want to play and leave,” he said.
He added that motivation is one of the most important factors in education, since it is difficult to see a motivation of students to learn.
Learning is intensely difficult and is not always fun, he said.
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