Schools in the Age of Artificial Intelligence #IMMOOC #LCInnovation
Continuing my reflection on what I am reading in Katie's book, I came across the chapter on teachers as learners (Chapter 5) and especially this part on rethinking traditions: (page 144) "As AI becomes increasingly capable of doing things that humans once did, jobs that require pattern recognition, following instructions, or recalling content are likely to be taken over by the machine. Yet these skills are the basis of what is taught in many schools today. Instead of setting up our students to compete with machines, we also need to focus on helping them develop the aspects that make humans unique." And she cites an article from the Harvard Business Review - In the AI Age, Being Smart Will Mean Something Completely Different by Ed Hess: "What is needed is a new definition of being smart, one that promotes higher levels of human thinking and emotional engagement. The new smart will be determined not by what or how you know but by the quality of your thinking, listening, relating, collaborating and learning. Quantity is replaced by quality. And that shift will enable us to focus on the hard work of taking our cognitive and emotional skills to a much higher level. Technology cannot replace the human connection, the relationship and the guidance and support that we are meant to provide do one another."
This is what I call a hard truth. It is very serious. It has been my experience as well that the more technology we use, the more we need to develop our human uniqueness. Deepen our social emotional skills, develop our critical thinking. We are free from rote tasks to be able to explore our humanity as never before, because we've gone beyond the survival level. Of course this isn't true for everyone. Many people are still figuring out what they will eat and where they will live. That is why it is even more so the responsibility of those who have access to another level of living to be prepared to progress and help even more those others in need. That's why we need to teach them to be sensitive to others, find a purpose and learn to contribute positively to improve life for everyone.
We, as educators, have to take a good hard look at the materials we are using to teach, the lesson plans and the strategies, and ask ourselves if these are truly helping the student to learn and become smart as Ed Hess defined in his article. For them to learn this, we need to provide them with the opportunity to practice this in a safe, guided environment. No better place than the school!
When we implemented our STEAM curriculum in my last school, we created opportunities for students to learn to listen to each other and give each other feedback as they developed their projects. We also created opportunities for them to self-evaluate and talk about their learning experience. We used simple tools such as a poster which was built as a class activity where they built a "shared contract" of the values we would strive for. Then, at the end of the quarter, based on that contract, students would receive a sheet with three emoticons drawn on them: a big smiley face, a big neutral face and a big frowning face. They then had to write down where they saw themselves in terms of the values they had committed to. On the back they justified their choice. The teacher would then sit down with them and talk about why they thought they had done well or not. They also used this tool to put down where their group was in terms of that value, and share with each other their point of view. It was interesting to see how each one saw the group in the process. It was a simple tool but very powerful in terms of teaching kids how to talk to each other, listen actively and think critically about their own responsibility in their learning process. Since we were dealing with High School students, this was all very new to them. They had never learned to reflect deeply on how they were learning and collaborating with others, or building their relationships. For me, this is one of the most important things we incorporated into the PBL, because it's when they were learning to be more human, more mature, more caring and more unique.
This is what I call a hard truth. It is very serious. It has been my experience as well that the more technology we use, the more we need to develop our human uniqueness. Deepen our social emotional skills, develop our critical thinking. We are free from rote tasks to be able to explore our humanity as never before, because we've gone beyond the survival level. Of course this isn't true for everyone. Many people are still figuring out what they will eat and where they will live. That is why it is even more so the responsibility of those who have access to another level of living to be prepared to progress and help even more those others in need. That's why we need to teach them to be sensitive to others, find a purpose and learn to contribute positively to improve life for everyone.
We, as educators, have to take a good hard look at the materials we are using to teach, the lesson plans and the strategies, and ask ourselves if these are truly helping the student to learn and become smart as Ed Hess defined in his article. For them to learn this, we need to provide them with the opportunity to practice this in a safe, guided environment. No better place than the school!
When we implemented our STEAM curriculum in my last school, we created opportunities for students to learn to listen to each other and give each other feedback as they developed their projects. We also created opportunities for them to self-evaluate and talk about their learning experience. We used simple tools such as a poster which was built as a class activity where they built a "shared contract" of the values we would strive for. Then, at the end of the quarter, based on that contract, students would receive a sheet with three emoticons drawn on them: a big smiley face, a big neutral face and a big frowning face. They then had to write down where they saw themselves in terms of the values they had committed to. On the back they justified their choice. The teacher would then sit down with them and talk about why they thought they had done well or not. They also used this tool to put down where their group was in terms of that value, and share with each other their point of view. It was interesting to see how each one saw the group in the process. It was a simple tool but very powerful in terms of teaching kids how to talk to each other, listen actively and think critically about their own responsibility in their learning process. Since we were dealing with High School students, this was all very new to them. They had never learned to reflect deeply on how they were learning and collaborating with others, or building their relationships. For me, this is one of the most important things we incorporated into the PBL, because it's when they were learning to be more human, more mature, more caring and more unique.
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