The Flaw in AI Educational Tools

A tool designed to respond to questions and ask follow-ups can’t help a student who doesn’t engage or know what to ask. Many ed-tech tools flounder because they haven’t solved the challenge at the center of education: How do you motivate students to experience the discomfort of learning something new? An AI tutor may be able to deliver math problems that are perfectly calibrated to a student’s level. But it can’t make the student actually do the problems. -The Atlantic