AI for Teachers: an Open Textbook (PDF)

The first edition of this textbook was published in October 2022. Within days, ChatGPT appeared, and we entered into twelve months of AI madness. Every week, new products were launched and improvements to language models and their applications were announced. More importantly, education seemed to suddenly become a benchmark for generative AIs. Teachers and institutions reacted rapidly, acknowledging the arrival of a new tool and incorporating it into the education toolbox – or prohibiting it because of the menace it was felt to convey. There were discussions in the press but also in international organisations; petitions and open letters were signed. The impact on the jobs market was measured, and some companies have already started to replace their workers with AI. This textbook addresses, among other things, the question of whether the importance of generative AIs means that the rest of the AIs have become superfluous.