I’m working with ChatGPT to build a conceptual framework for a chatbot that would support teachers in designing inquiry lessons using the Inquiry Design Model. My work began with an exchange about design parameters, features, and the structure of a chatbot to scaffold teachers through the challenges of designing an
Time present and time pastAre both perhaps present in time future,And time future contained in time past.If all time is eternally presentAll time is unredeemable. —T.S. Eliot, Burnt Norton Teachers know all so well the unredeemable quality of time. It’s in short supply. Time constrains and fixes us in place.
I’ve been thinking about a theory for using AI in history education. By theory, I mean what I expect to be true based on general ideas and principles. Expectations are fickle, so this is a tricky endeavor. Seems reasonable to talk to ChatGPT about this to help untangle my emerging
What will school look like in 2044 – 20 years from now? Different? For sure. Unrecognizable? Likely. Better? … I have come to believe two things about this question. AI can be a force for good in education, but we must be focused on the aims of education as we
There’s a TS Elliot poem from a play called The Rock. It’s a mediation on the human condition and our use of data… read on. Choruses from The Rock – T.S. Eliot The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven,The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.O perpetual revolution of
With the rise of AI, I’m thinking about what it means to be human? How is the human experience lifted up or pulled down by AI? Do you care if it’s a human or a bot? If your interaction with an AI bot meets your human needs, does it really
In her book Humanly Possible, Sarah Bakewell writes about being human as culture, morality, science, optimism, and more. Bakewell opens with a musing on the Roman playwright Terence’s line about humans. “I am human, and consider nothing human alien to me” Bakewell explains that the line was a gag in
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