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Will AI replace Communications Teachers, Postsecondary?

Some of your tasks will be automated. People who use AI will have the edge.

Task exposure to today's AI

48/100

Moderate exposure

This is the occupation's typical task mix. Your own score can be up to 30 points higher or lower depending on how you work: routine share, people contact, judgment and how much you already use AI.

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Will AI replace Communications Teachers, Postsecondary?

Not entirely. Today's AI tools can take on about 48% of the typical work in this occupation, mostly: prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. The parts that stay human include: Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.; Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.; Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public speaking, media criticism, and oral traditions..

People who learn to use AI for the automatable parts keep the edge. The 3-phase plan below shows where to start.

Which tasks AI can take on

The largest tasks in this occupation, their share of the working week, and how much of each today's AI tools can do.

TaskAutomatable
Prepare course materials, such as syllabi, homework assignments, and handouts. 78%
Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public speaking, media criticism, and oral traditions. 60%
Conduct research in a particular field of knowledge and publish findings in professional journals, books, or electronic media.AI already used 60%
Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.AI already used 57%
Maintain regularly scheduled office hours to advise and assist students. 35%
Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions. 12%

+ 16 more tasks (43% of the week) in the full test.

Your human edge

  • Initiate, facilitate, and moderate classroom discussions.
  • Evaluate and grade students' class work, assignments, and papers.
  • Prepare and deliver lectures to undergraduate or graduate students on topics such as public speaking, media criticism, and oral traditions.

AI tools to try

ChatGPT / Claude for lesson materialsAI quiz and feedback toolsPresentation and image generators

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A 3-phase AI learning plan

Phase 1

Materials and preparation

  • Lesson plans, tasks and differentiated materials with AI.
  • Quizzes and answer keys.
  • Check facts and age-appropriateness yourself.

Project

Use AI to rebuild one three-week unit of your public speaking course — syllabus section, 6 lecture outlines, 3 differentiated handouts and 2 quizzes with keys — and log hours saved.

Phase 2

Feedback and assessment

  • Rubrics and feedback drafts with AI.
  • Spotting common mistakes across student work.
  • Rules for student AI use and academic honesty.

Project

Draft an analytic rubric plus AI-assisted feedback comments for one set of 25 media criticism papers, then compare your grading time and comment length against last term's set.

Phase 3

Teaching with AI

  • Teach students to use AI critically.
  • Assignments that work with AI, not against it.
  • Share materials and practice with colleagues.

Project

Design and run one assignment where students must critique an AI-generated persuasive speech, publish your AI-use policy, and share the materials plus results with 3 department colleagues.
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