Discussion about this post

User's avatar
Terry underwood's avatar

Tough job, Nick, but someone has to do it:) Your effort to put some shape to a whole school approach is balanced on the fulcrum of risks vs payoff, and you implicitly advise schools to focus their attention on the details, weighing everything from the ethics of use to the mandates of learning and teaching. I think you are getting closer and closer to your goal. One theme that might be emphasized a bit more is your insistence that students are brought into the discussion. I’d say get some student reps on the ethics committee to draft an honor code of use, and emphasize that this is an honor code of learning—not a code of heroism or battle where life and death are at stake. Students might object to your giving teachers the right to surveillance of their chats. Reasonable students will understand that teachers already have the right to monitor students work habits, in fact, the moral obligation. AI is not like talking with peers or texting—it’s more like a library. Student voices are paramount in discussions of ethics that govern their learning.

Speaking of voice, I’d want to open this topic up for students. How do they interpret its meaning? What is the relationship to style and word choice? How do these aspects of writing link to the bot? This discussion circles back to the code of learners, not heroes, not villains. Maybe an orientation to voice task?

Expand full comment
Ramon Bello's avatar

I wish you the very best success in this endeavor, for it won't be easy.

Would be great if Principal's and Teachers agree to document the progress of using A.I. in the classroom, just to compare the level of aptitude of students and their progression in education. If A.I. does accelerate student' learning (assuming still in the hypothesis stage), what else can be expanded in the education system with A.I.? (Examples, like manufacturing with 3d printers, Legos, possibly adding more trips to expand student learning.)

Then, I wonder, will schools offer students to craft what matters to them? Let's say creating films, painting or sculpting art, create music and have the students monetize their work to have a step ahead in the "job economy", giving students the advantage to work and add value to the economy based on what matters to them?

Just a thought ...

Expand full comment
10 more comments...

No posts