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Ethan Mollick (@emollick.bsky.social): I know it is a lot for instructors who never asked for AI to change things about their teaching, but if you teach and have not updated your expectations over the last 6 months over what AI can do (a l

L2 · PractitionerOpinion & Analysis@emollick.bsky.social· 8/26/2026

For educators and trainers using AI tools daily, this highlights the urgent need to adapt teaching practices.

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Ethan Mollick argues that instructors must update their expectations around AI's growing capabilities and student usage over the last six months.

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I know it is a lot for instructors who never asked for AI to change things about their teaching, but if you teach and have not updated your expectations over the last 6 months over what AI can do (a lot more), its error rate (a lot less) and its ubiquity among your students (near total), you need to

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