Love the point you are making and the metaphor, but I don’t see the actual activity working easily. Too much shifting and opportunity for lost learning in that shift. I think we could easily create all the cards, print them out, and have the kids work in groups to answer the question; then we could ask them what they believe AI predicted, and why (with a quick writing of two or three sentences). After that, we could “reveal” what AI selected (a la “Survey Says…!!!). Students could analyze that one and compare it to what they had predicted and to each other’s predictions. I think that would be more manageable; what do you think?
Wonderful metaphor. You mentioned AI for a hot second. PBS NewsHour reported last night about the plight of higher education (cost outweighs perceived benefits of better employment). At the end of the segment, I think they said that employers wanted students with AI capabilities. It’s a conundrum. My husband is 60 and works for a financial institution. Over the course of about 35 years of work, he has learned through experience how things work. He now uses AI at work to replace the work that people used to do…like lower level jobs, where a person would learn the business by doing the entry level work. My husband can use AI effectively because he had 35 years in the industry. How are recent college grads with no real world experience supposed to know what to do with the AI? How are they going to know if what they are doing with AI is even valid? There’s a void.
Excellent point. Capitalism's not so good at planning ahead, is it? "Fire all the entry-level employees and replace them with AI" makes a short-term profit right now, boosts the stock price right now, seems like it's too much to ask these CEOs to look even a year ahead.
I enjoyed this article because it was NOT lazy. There was a lot of thought that went into this and I thought you made some great points! Keep up the good work.
excellent metaphor--and the visuals make it extraordinarily *useful* as a way to see what's really going on in a lesson (and figure out how to make things better.)
I also like *choreography* to describe a teacher's work: the different steps we invite students to take, the roles we can play with them...how, when you're designing a lesson, you're always imagining the step your students will take in response to the step you take...how that dance will unfold
Love the point you are making and the metaphor, but I don’t see the actual activity working easily. Too much shifting and opportunity for lost learning in that shift. I think we could easily create all the cards, print them out, and have the kids work in groups to answer the question; then we could ask them what they believe AI predicted, and why (with a quick writing of two or three sentences). After that, we could “reveal” what AI selected (a la “Survey Says…!!!). Students could analyze that one and compare it to what they had predicted and to each other’s predictions. I think that would be more manageable; what do you think?
Wonderful metaphor. You mentioned AI for a hot second. PBS NewsHour reported last night about the plight of higher education (cost outweighs perceived benefits of better employment). At the end of the segment, I think they said that employers wanted students with AI capabilities. It’s a conundrum. My husband is 60 and works for a financial institution. Over the course of about 35 years of work, he has learned through experience how things work. He now uses AI at work to replace the work that people used to do…like lower level jobs, where a person would learn the business by doing the entry level work. My husband can use AI effectively because he had 35 years in the industry. How are recent college grads with no real world experience supposed to know what to do with the AI? How are they going to know if what they are doing with AI is even valid? There’s a void.
Excellent point. Capitalism's not so good at planning ahead, is it? "Fire all the entry-level employees and replace them with AI" makes a short-term profit right now, boosts the stock price right now, seems like it's too much to ask these CEOs to look even a year ahead.
I enjoyed this article because it was NOT lazy. There was a lot of thought that went into this and I thought you made some great points! Keep up the good work.
I love the music metaphor, but in your example when you refer to a chord, all the notes in the visual are the same pitch, which isn't really a chord.
Your very first graphic of "Teacher Explanation" reminded me of this hilarious YouTube video about one-note solos:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSuK_5zW2iM&pp=ygUNb25lIG5vdGUgc29sbw%3D%3D
Sorry I don't have anything more useful to contribute.
excellent metaphor--and the visuals make it extraordinarily *useful* as a way to see what's really going on in a lesson (and figure out how to make things better.)
I also like *choreography* to describe a teacher's work: the different steps we invite students to take, the roles we can play with them...how, when you're designing a lesson, you're always imagining the step your students will take in response to the step you take...how that dance will unfold
I don’t know how the anti screen time movement has made it so far on only describing screens at their worst.
Helpful metaphor
I like the multimodal attempt here.