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Ethan Mollick is one of my favorite writers on the impact of AI on society. In a recent post, he describes what AI agents are capable of, if given free rein. It’s… a lot. He cautions that there are good reasons to limit the freedom we give to AI to make decisions for us. It’s …
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology released earlier this month a report on “AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training.” MIT is one of the pioneers in the development of AI and a leading educational institution. So their views on the subject are worth a read. There’s a lot to unpack in the report, including: …
I finally had some time to review Pope Leo XIV’s official “encyclical” on the topic of artificial intelligence, which they published last month. While I have not read the whole thing (50+ pages of text) in detail, it raises a lot of important concerns about generative AI that are worth considering. On what is “artificial …
About a week ago, I had the opportunity to visit Ghibli Park in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. I could write a lot about the park, but what sticks with me most is what the experience was like without a smartphone. Because cameras and smartphones are prohibited to use in most of the park. The management does …
I’m excited to unveil a new project that I’ve been working on with KQED, a new course entitled “Copyright, Fair Use & AI: A Guide for Educators.” Here’s the course description: Wondering when it’s ok to reuse or remix other people’s work or media in the classroom? Curious if you or your students can use …
For the past few weeks, I’ve been revising one of my favorite courses on KQED Teach, “Understanding Copyright for Educators.” It’s a short, breezy introduction to the basics of copyright law, Fair Use, Creative Commons and the Public Domain. Fun stuff! When we originally wrote this course in 2022, there was a lot of complicated …
I just finished Ethan Mollick’s excellent book Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI, which I’m sure I’ll be thinking about for awhile. For the past two years, I’ve been following Mollick’s ruminations about AI on his blog “One Useful Thing.” As an educator actively experimenting with AI in his classroom, he has helped inform how …
My role at work has shifted to leading more professional development workshops for teachers. This week, I co-led a workshop on partnering with AI to support student media making. We had 227 folks turn out! When you are leading workshops online, it’s hard to know if you are hitting your marks. But it’s great to …
I”m excited to announce the newest course on KQED Teach — “Partner with GenAi to Elevate Authentic Youth Voice.” In this short course you will learn about KQED Education’s unique take on generative AI in the classroom and see how you can customize an AI chatbot that supports student media making. Pre-enroll here. Partner with …
I read this really interesting conversation with Georgetown professor Jeanine Turner on how smartphones have fundamentally changed the dynamic of what students “being present” means, even when the phone is turned off. This section in particular gave me pause: I absolutely believe that every teacher, every presenter in a business situation, if you want people’s attention on you, you …