Over the years, a clear increase in the use of AI has been seen, especially with teachers. Lauraine Langreo, a staff writer for Education Week, reports from an Education Week survey that in 2023 “a little more than a third of teachers (34%) said they used AI”, while 2025 saw a significant increase, with “61% [of teachers] saying they used the technology in their work” (citation). This drastic increase of AI use from teachers directly shows how teachers have begun to utilize advancing technology to enhance the learning of their students.
However, this increase from teachers has also received significant pushback, particularly from teachers. According to Dean Kane, a middle school teacher at Lake County High School in Colorado, creating assignments by hand would “probably take less time”, and that he would do a better job at making impactful assignments for his students (citation). The reason for this is that he feels his own work would allow him to be “‘more intentional’ about the questions he asks, how they’re sequenced, … and what students already know”(citation).
Another one of Kane’s concerns are “how generative AI will affect educators and students’ critical-thinking skills”(citation). His cites that often “people are using these tools to take ‘shortcuts’”, which takes away from a key aspect of learning (citation).
While the use of AI has become apparent in education, there is still some opposition from teachers not just on students’ usage, but also teachers’ usage as a tool to educate their students.
