TheFlippedScientist

As the Director of e-Learning at Marlborough Boys' College, I find myself constantly navigating the evolving landscape of educational technology. The latest buzz is Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its potential to save time for teachers with developing new worksheets or lesson plans in the blink of an eye. I have watched on my social feeds as my international colleagues have attended the most recent ISTE conference in Colorado and been introduced to plethora of AI tools that promise to free up and save time.  While this promise is alluring, a closer examination reveals that the history of time-saving technologies tells a different story. Moreover, our understanding of time itself, especially from indigenous and non-capitalist perspectives, challenges the very notion of time as a commodity to be saved or lost. Throughout history, many innovations have promised to save us time. From the invention of the vacuum cleaner to the rise of personal computers, each technological leap was ha