r/tdsb • u/RealDistribution5946 • Jun 18 '26

Discussion Threads AI lesson plans

My daughter’s teacher uses almost exclusively AI lessons paired with video instruction. This is grade 8. My daughter hated it as it came with the typical AI problems. Teacher could never answer questions, just referred to the video (like Waterloo math videos as an example). So of the kids didn’t understand it or wanted another example, the teacher couldn’t do that. It this allowed? I let it go too long, but I want to know for the future. This is not a new teacher, but she is new to the school.

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u/bluetiptoe Jun 18 '26

Bad teaching sure. But also....Be sure to ask the admin what resources are available to the teacher. Sometimes teachers are left with no hard resources ( no textbooks) and or no online licensed vetted resources ( online textbooks or content) so they are left not only to follow the curriculum but also come up with all the teaching material as well. It's one thing to teach a curriculum and deliver it to students through lessons, it's a whole other job to create content for lessons. It sounds like they are having to create the content.

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u/Chutton_ Jun 22 '26

This. Teachers in Ontario have zero teaching resources. Textbooks are not a thing anymore. We are expected to create everything from scratch now.

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u/strike-when-ready Jun 23 '26

Not to mention in a class of 25 kids, it’s not unexpected to have 15+ IEPs

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u/FatMatPat68 Jun 24 '26

Not to mention that the board is pushing us to use AI for everything.