Sitting in an atrium on Google鈥檚 campus, a group of K-12 educators imagined the worst response they could receive when they tried to persuade their colleagues to use artificial intelligence.
They pictured a veteran English teacher who was still upset that cursive is no longer taught. Perhaps she would yell that AI is 鈥渏ust another shiny tech fad.鈥 What鈥檚 next, she might ask 鈥 robots teaching kids how to read?
The educators asked Gemini, Google鈥檚 AI assistant, for advice and soon had a role-playing plan. They would win over this skeptical English teacher by explaining what generative AI could do for her: create classroom materials for phonics lessons, reducing what would normally be hours of work to just two minutes. The key, the educators agreed, was to avoid getting into an argument or letting this AI critic unload all her fears uninterrupted.
