Perspective
Perspective.
Schools are wrestling with AI on three distinct fronts, and most advice conflates them. The three pillars below are the framing Mitchell Education works through. Writing on each is in progress; this page will fill out over the coming months.
01 · Pillar
AI for teaching practice
The first question most teachers ask is "what should I actually use this for?" — and the honest answer is more interesting than the usual list of prompts. There's a real difference between AI uses that genuinely save teachers time and improve practice, and ones that look like they do but quietly erode something important. Where that line falls is the heart of this pillar.
Writing on this to follow.
02 · Pillar
AI in the school back-office
Most schools are still thinking about AI tool-by-tool: which chatbot, which marking assistant, which drafting tool. The more important question is function-by-function: what should admissions, communications, finance, and HR look like when AI is doing the routine cognitive work? That's a three-to-five-year question, and it's where the operational impact of AI on schools will actually land.
Writing on this to follow.
03 · Pillar
Preparing students for the age of AI
A student starting Year 7 today will leave school in 2030 or later. The working world they enter will have been remade by AI in ways we can already see the outline of. What does it mean to teach them, assess them, and prepare them well? This is the slowest and most important question schools face on AI, and it deserves better answers than the current debate is producing.
Writing on this to follow.