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Teach what’s NEEDED, not what’s NEXT (2/3)
You’ll learn best if the learning is targeted to your personal needs. 😎 (This isn’t about learning styles. Don’t get me started on learning styles.) What if, every time you learned something, it started at exactly the right place for you based on what you already know? There would be no need for background research…
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Teach what’s NEEDED, not what’s NEXT. (1/3)
But… how do you know what’s needed? 🧐 I had high school classes where the teacher said “We were on page 87 yesterday, so today we’ll start at the top of page 88”? I’m sure you’ve had the same. Wait. Why is that wrong? Page 88 is the next page, after all! Here’s the problem:…
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Uh oh. Do you actually know what your learners don’t know? 🤔
Teaching is way more than telling. A great teacher unearths their learners’ misconceptions and misunderstandings, and then targets them to fill gaps and build higher quality knowledge. In other words, you don’t just teach what’s next; you teach what’s NEEDED. One of the more challenging elements of teaching is figuring out what our learners need…
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You just learned ChatGPT and now it’s gone?! What will you have to learn next?! 😓
No, ChatGPT isn’t dead yet. But this weekend was chaos weekend at OpenAI, the company that created it. (CEO Altman was out! Then maybe he wasn’t! Then he was hired by Microsoft! And then most of OpenAI’s employees were ready to follow him! Wheeee!!!!!) OpenAI may survive, but the sharks are circling. Now’s a perfect…
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I built an artificially intelligent tutor! 🤖🎓 How’d I do?
My edu-geekery dial went to 11 last week when OpenAI announced custom GPTs. And here I’ve been talking about how you can use ChatGPT for learning! 🤓 I’ve been building an AI tutor ever since. Turns out it isn’t easy. Here are a sampling of the things I wanted it to do:🤔 Start by evaluating the…
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How do we humanize non-human interactions?
I’ve been thinking a lot about the below since I posted it. The risk of trusting AI to get pseudo-human interaction right, the difficulty of knowing just how to balance AI’s advantages with the necessity of a human touch, the cognitive reward of human interaction that’s missing from AI. I released a podcast episode with…
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ChatGPT made my daughter cry, and it was my fault
She’d just told me she’d started learning about the human nervous system for a class by Googling articles. I asked her a few questions about the topic, and then thought: Aha! Perfect opportunity to employ AI for learning! I asked whether she’d like to build a prompt in ChatGPT that would help her learn what…
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“But Artificial Intelligence Can Do It For Me!”
How do we nurture excellence in a world where “artificial intelligence can do it for me”? I homeschooled my elder daughter last year and this year. This year she’s attending Sora Schools (and loving it, I might add); last year I built her curriculum. This story is about last year, when she was in 7th grade. I…
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Is Artificial Intelligence Smarter Than You? (part 4 of 4)
If you’ve been following this series, you know the answer is yes. At least in some ways. Here’s where you find out what to do about it! Part 1 of this series, on Human Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence, is here. Part 2, on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Generative AI, is here.Part 3, Is Artificial…
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Is Artificial Intelligence Smarter Than You? (part 3 of 4)
Most likely: yes. And you’ll find out why in this very post! Wait, don’t leave! This is a four-part series on how we can use artificial intelligence to our advantage! Part 1 of this series, on Human Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence, is here.Part 2, on Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Generative AI, is here.This is…
