Laura McInerney — What teachers say they want versus what they will actually use.

Every EdTech pitches claims to save teachers time, but teacher tap tracks, teacher workload data.

When you look at schools that adopt new tech versus schools that don't, does the data actually show time saving or does it actually show something completely entirely different?

Yeah, it's a good question.

Let me have time data.

I have data on time.

But that's the

biggest thing they use from a sales perspective.

I know we mentioned that earlier.

We were saying, oh, it's going to save them time.

I don't think teachers actually give a crap whether it saves them time or not.

Well, they don't believe a lot of the time it will save them time.

And I think they're probably right on that.

So I went back and did some analysis on this.

And the thing is, a couple of years ago, you have AI use go from nothing to about 60% within about 18 months.

It's up now towards 70% using it within the last week.

But the thing is, it's not like their working hours suddenly collapsed.

So when we're asking about working hours, we don't see big shifts.

Even in 2019, pre the pandemic, at that time, schools were getting teachers to hand in a lot of data.

So people were spending huge amounts of time on spreadsheets and data and everything else.

And the government said, we don't need you to do this anymore.

We want you to stop because part of the workload challenge says this is overwhelming.

So they all stopped and workload went down.

I was tiny amount and then it came back up again because the new offset framework came on and everybody shifted their focus from data to something else.

So the thing with time is if you save the time, it's not like they're at the bottom of the checklist.

and that the last thing on their list was lesson planning or feedback, right? There's 73 other things they haven't yet got to that they just spin to.