The interesting part of this post isn't the TPACK model at all but the "TRaining AI to be a Teacher" (TRAIT) hypothesis introduced later in the post. It "is something like this: the effectiveness with which a generative AI model supports student learning will be proportional to the extent to which it has the skills and knowledge of an appropriately trained human teacher." Now it's a nice starting point, and we can see the relevance of Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) to this. But really, the skill sets are very different for AI and human teachers. The AI is teaching one-to-one, the human is teaching a cohort. The AI is following the student's lead, the human is teaching a specific curriculum. The AI doesn't care about behaviour, the human manages behaviour and a host of other social factors over and above learning. But Wiley's main point holds: an AI teacher will require specific competencies we might not expect an AI to have out of the box.
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