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Six weeks back

Writer: Dane Smale
Dane Smale
Sep 2
1 min read

Updated: Aug 26

Australian teachers work 46.5 hours a week according to TALIS, third longest in the OECD, and 34 per cent report high stress against an OECD average of 19.


Every AI product in education promises the same fix, time saved, and one commonly quoted figure is six weeks a year for regular users. Suppose it's true.


My prediction is that not a minute of it reaches a child. It'll be absorbed by data entry, compliance, a new framework, a platform that needs populating. Teacher workload isn't a bucket with a hole in it, it's a vacuum, and it expands to fill whatever you free up.



 
 
 

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