Change is what everyone should be teaching children to navigate. But you can't see it. No one getting paid by the public conditioning system can see it because they lost their creativity in the system.
Lillian, I'd invite you to read my post and engage with the comment on its content.
You begin my commenting on a post I put out over a month ago. I wonder why you are spending your time focusing on something that you find so deeply flawed or excluded from. If you'd look closely at the post, you would see one way an educator is using AI in today's complex landscape. Teachers right now are very much looking for ways to integrate in a meaningful way. I am offering one possible pathway forward. Your thesis about creativity in schools may hold a kernel of truth, but not all families or children can go the homeschool route. That said, I am overall suspicious of your overall approach to creativity--that only the select few possess it. I personally think creativity can be amplified through the process of education. In fact, I have dedicated my life to that work. So please, interact with the actual content of the specific post. That is just Substack etiquette. If you have a longer message to compose, write a post on your newsletter and publish it there. But the ad hominem stuff is not appreciated. I work hard at what I do.
I keep posting because I care deeply that our education system is failing children. I work with extreme outliers. The most sensitive people. I get them through an education system where everything is stacked against them. I am telling you what will work for anyone. CREATING!!!
I don't see my podcast here even though I cover AI quite a bit. I also cover homeschooling, unschooling and how our education system does more harm than good to the outliers of intelligence.
You are wasting your time talking to most teachers about AI. Teacher overwhelmingly are the cognitively Intelligent.
For the AI is counter intuitive. They are afraid of AI. They don't understand it. Only those forced to learn how average moves through the world will find it truly useful.
If you are average you don't realize how very uncomfortable it is to be forced to be something you are not. You don't have questions on why things are the way they are. You take for granted your way is the only way. It's not. It never way but our systems made us all pretend it was.
Now veryone will be forced to be a creative. We will be forced to become entrepreneurs in the near future. If you know anything about business, you know finding the pain of consumers is how you make your money.
To find people that understand how to use AI to find and alleviate pain you must start those who were in pain before AI came. Again, that would be the creatives. Because their way was never the right way. So they know all about pain. They will use theirs to make the real value AI will bring.
You are an English teacher. What you have chosen to do with AI is perplexing. You should be helping students figure out the solutions to their pain. That is the most value you can possibly provide to them and their future.
Hi Lillian. Thanks for reading and commenting on Nicks indictment of complacency and covering of ears
and eyes. I find your analysis intriguing in part because of its naked nihilism, in part because of its hidden tenderness. You could become a part of the conversation Nick is working to stoke. Your skepticism is one part of the discursive formation we are in. My advice? Try to add something to the discussion instead of trying to stop it in its tracks. Pain is a roaring river in the wilderness of life. Agreed. But somehow humans want to live. It’s a paradox, but it’s what we have. Nick has laid his cards on the table. How about you? Lay yours on the table, too. Offer a real solution to the AI challenge in schools even though you don’t believe there are any. Find a sweet spot inside the arc of the dilemma you inhabit.
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I can respect that.
Change is what everyone should be teaching children to navigate. But you can't see it. No one getting paid by the public conditioning system can see it because they lost their creativity in the system.
Lillian, I'd invite you to read my post and engage with the comment on its content.
You begin my commenting on a post I put out over a month ago. I wonder why you are spending your time focusing on something that you find so deeply flawed or excluded from. If you'd look closely at the post, you would see one way an educator is using AI in today's complex landscape. Teachers right now are very much looking for ways to integrate in a meaningful way. I am offering one possible pathway forward. Your thesis about creativity in schools may hold a kernel of truth, but not all families or children can go the homeschool route. That said, I am overall suspicious of your overall approach to creativity--that only the select few possess it. I personally think creativity can be amplified through the process of education. In fact, I have dedicated my life to that work. So please, interact with the actual content of the specific post. That is just Substack etiquette. If you have a longer message to compose, write a post on your newsletter and publish it there. But the ad hominem stuff is not appreciated. I work hard at what I do.
I keep posting because I care deeply that our education system is failing children. I work with extreme outliers. The most sensitive people. I get them through an education system where everything is stacked against them. I am telling you what will work for anyone. CREATING!!!
I don't see my podcast here even though I cover AI quite a bit. I also cover homeschooling, unschooling and how our education system does more harm than good to the outliers of intelligence.
You are wasting your time talking to most teachers about AI. Teacher overwhelmingly are the cognitively Intelligent.
For the AI is counter intuitive. They are afraid of AI. They don't understand it. Only those forced to learn how average moves through the world will find it truly useful.
If you are average you don't realize how very uncomfortable it is to be forced to be something you are not. You don't have questions on why things are the way they are. You take for granted your way is the only way. It's not. It never way but our systems made us all pretend it was.
Now veryone will be forced to be a creative. We will be forced to become entrepreneurs in the near future. If you know anything about business, you know finding the pain of consumers is how you make your money.
To find people that understand how to use AI to find and alleviate pain you must start those who were in pain before AI came. Again, that would be the creatives. Because their way was never the right way. So they know all about pain. They will use theirs to make the real value AI will bring.
You are an English teacher. What you have chosen to do with AI is perplexing. You should be helping students figure out the solutions to their pain. That is the most value you can possibly provide to them and their future.
Hi Lillian. Thanks for reading and commenting on Nicks indictment of complacency and covering of ears
and eyes. I find your analysis intriguing in part because of its naked nihilism, in part because of its hidden tenderness. You could become a part of the conversation Nick is working to stoke. Your skepticism is one part of the discursive formation we are in. My advice? Try to add something to the discussion instead of trying to stop it in its tracks. Pain is a roaring river in the wilderness of life. Agreed. But somehow humans want to live. It’s a paradox, but it’s what we have. Nick has laid his cards on the table. How about you? Lay yours on the table, too. Offer a real solution to the AI challenge in schools even though you don’t believe there are any. Find a sweet spot inside the arc of the dilemma you inhabit.