AI is a technology with incredible potential for a number of sectors of society. Time savers, productivity short cuts and administrative management at the teacher level are clearly potential uses in education. However, as we start to understand the technology and it's potential for learning, let's use a thoughtful and deliberative process to decide how AI and student learning interact. To skip over or minimize the human elements of learning for the expediency of technology has never worked out well. AI isn't the *last* major change or shift that our students will face.
How do you bring more of the student's human durable skills to the work?
What does it look like to hone the human skills so that they will serve them in an unknown future?
How do we create enough structure to be effective without becoming so rigid that we can’t innovate?
How do we honor the human experience and not just the efficient outcome?
How do we ensure that it's the technology that serves the learning and not the other way around?
What will you do to make their skills set transferable and resilient in light of the unknown future?
Below are a range of readings to delve into when you are looking to be thoughtful in implementation
Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said
I Have AI Fatigue. Here's What I'm Doing to Overcome It
Kids Who Use ChatGPT as a Study Assistant Do Worse on Tests
Artificial Intelligence and Writing: Four Things I Learned Listening to my High School Students
Can an AI make a data-driven, visual story?
Education Hazards of Generative AI
Tech & Business Fantasies of Education - The Difference Between Great AI and Great Teaching with Dan Meyer