Embracing Emerging Technology in learning

Editor's Notes

1. This is the definition. It sounds good enough but I like to think about it much simpler. Technology is everything and anything. We are constantly using it. Anything we have ever created as humans that allows us to simplify our lives is technology, not just “the chat” or “the AI” or “the steamboat”
2. I used to ask this question in my classrooms. Until I learned better, and consider this a clue, I used to say the greatest piece of technology was somewhere in between the toilet AND the toilet paper. But I was wrong.
3. Make a PAUSE and ask for the greatest tech advancement done to language since its invention an then use the next slide as a hint
4. Here you can see with detail the greatest tech advance in the written language. It allowed for many more people to learn how to read faster without an expert trying to interpret the words
5. Language allowed all of this to happen. No other way.
6. My point is we need to stop looking at tech as a threat. It’s not and we are FAR FAR FAR FAR FAR Away from any apocalyptic idea that Science fiction had brought to us
7. In the near future… sorry, let me fix that image… it’s not accurate
8. Ok, so… in the near future we won’t imagine our lives without it. We have been using it for years (your predictive text for example). A.I. is a TOOL. It is new tech that has come to make our lives easier and all we need to do is learn how to use it instead of letting it overwhelm us.
9. A quick story on how Wordpress Templates almost took me out of business
10. So… to chat or not to chat… that is the questionWhether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer…. Suffering equals Resistance x Change. The more you resist change (which will happen whether we like it or not) the more you will suffer. Release yourself from it.
11. A.I. will help us by…
12. A.I. will help us by…
13. Some thoughts
14. Two examples out of the blue on Gamification <<< My area of expertise.
15. Use A.I. to measure progression. Remove perfection from the concept of learning. Assessments should HELP MEASURE where you are at, not Judge you and cripple you from learning.Use an “Attempts” approach. Let the players fail.
16. Create a scenario where the players need to USE the A.I. to overcome the challenge, not test them. That way you force them to become creative and provide YOU with a way of using the A.I. in the future.
17. Use a story that turns the way the players behave!!!!!!! Stop treating them as students and let them fly off the handle and behave like professionals. You are teaching at that level. Have them use A.I. to their advantage NOT to get a grade but to LEARN how they can overcome their predicaments. Use a story to tie that up and they will follow. I assure you, no matter the age, Stories WORK. I could dive into the science of that, but we don’t have much time
18. So they insist in using it? You caught a “cheater”? Overheat the, Test the limits of their cheating abilities. They brought you an essay that’s evident it came from Chat? Ask for 20 more… Bring the prompts and get judged by your peers. See how little creativity the A.I. has and how much less work it had been on the first round.My wife always say >> The lazy work double. Make them.
19. The most expensive ones. They are called EDUCATION. Learn all you can about A.I. so the Hype runs out. It’s cool but, look at the face of the girl in the middle… Yeah… you cant… there isn’t one.
20. The problem with assessments is that the player feels judged and thinks the game is kind of rigged against them or that they have to just get over it ASAP to get the diploma… or the grade.This is called OVERJUSTIFICATION effect. They don’t care about the learning, they want the result. If you create an environment where failure isn’t bad and they can retry and learn from the mistakes within a reasonable time frame, all we are doing is promoting a much richer scientific mind and allowing the players to PLAY and exploit their natural learning skills rather than block their neurons from working when stressing too much about the number.
21. Talking about time horizons for A.I. to be “dangerous” or so you can worry is not difficult.The toys are already here. We are not going to lose our jobs, an A.I. overlord isn’t going to conquer the world tomorrow and nothing bad is going to happen… unless you believe the alphabet isn’t great tech. Then you would be blinding yourself from getting your thoughts to travel through time and allow the future generations to learn from you.