- Kenya faces a severe teacher shortage due to large class sizes and burnout.
- To manage their workloads, some teachers are using ChatGPT and other AI chatbots.
- AI edtech startups have struggled to scale, as 65% of schools don’t have internet.
Sylvia Osewe, an elementary school teacher in the Nairobi area, loves seeing her students learn and grow. But at one time early in her career, she nearly quit.
“I had about 90 students in my class [in 2008]. I had to write all the lesson plans, teach the students, mark their books, write lesson notes, and update record work,” she told Rest of World. The ideal class size is 40 students, according to the Kenyan education department. “I wanted to quit; it was very difficult.”
