Reflecting on the study released by Ethan Mollick and the Boston Consulting Group recently.
Summary:
https://lnkd.in/eAH9geiE
Strengths:
If these figures are correct where AI users achieved:
12.2% more tasks completed
25.1% tasks completed more quickly
40% higher quality task completion
Skill increases 43% for below average performers and 17% for above average performers (levelling up performance across the organisation).
Weaknesses:
Those using AI poorly or for tasks not appropriate given current AI skill set and abilities showed a decrease in performance between 14%-24%
Then given the current key issues in education of:
Teacher workload & wellbeing
Recruitment and retention of quality staff
and the impact of these on all other areas of school performance.
Opportunities
The opportunity is that staff are able to start to make inroads in doing a job that is fast becoming impossible.
Also staff who require support are able to narrow the performance gap with appropriate use of AI.
Threats:
The threat is that if staff inevitably adopt AI use without training, then it will exacerbate the current issues.
Even with all its risks and unknowns, does this make AI awareness, literacy and training for staff one of the highest priorities?
