I started teaching five years ago and I’ve been showing chatgpt to my aunt that’s about to retire after 30 years. She loves the profession and most importantly has an empathetic heart for students that is very rare. She’s floored with the technology and completely embraces what’s here and coming with chatgpt. As she sees it, the tech makes the weak links in education apparent because the main complaint for her is that many curriculums do not engage students to critically think or just flat out engage in their work. Now chatgpt comes along and makes much of what teachers rely on as a measure to gauge student learning irrelevant. If teachers aren’t paying attention- what I gather from my colleagues there aren’t many- and figuring out ways to use this as a tool to elevate instruction we’re going to find it pretty difficult to justify our jobs in the future.