Getting Acquainted with AI

This summer, TECtonic participants have been exploring the rapidly changing world of AI, the unique demands it will be putting on us as educators, and the institutional vision required to shepherd our community through this uncertain future. Here are some of the resources we’ve found most helpful and would like to share with the Choate community:

First, the latest Educator’s Notebook newsletter is chock full of essential questions and resources to help us face the reality of what AI means for learning as we prepare for this school year and beyond.

At the newly launched Learning on Purpose SubStack, Eric Hudson has published two pieces with guiding questions, essential principles, and hands-on experiments worthy of your consideration.

At the One Useful Thing SubStack, Wharton Professor Ethan Mollick writes regularly about using AI to implement effective teaching strategies in classrooms. Mollick and wife Lilach also just released this must-watch video series:

Ethan and Lilach Mollick’s supremely accessible and practical 10-minute video series!
Get a sneak peek into how Khan Academy is utilizing GPT-4 to empower students and teachers alike to unleash their full human potential in the learning process.

We are helping beta test an exciting new project billed as “conversational AI for students to talk about their work.”  If you are intrigued by this demo, please visit https://sherpalabs.co/ and click the button “Sign Up with Invite Code” on the top right hand corner.  Sign up with your Choate credentials, enter the Invite code SPEAKONIT and create your first conversation with Sherpa!
Made by the creators of The Social Dilemma, Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin’s urgent talk calls our attention to the dark sides of this emerging technology, and offers some suggestions for wisely navigating through the existential challenges.
Followup to The AI Dilemma in response to viewers’ questions.
Indian mystic Sadhguru offers sage advice for how we should orient ourselves in the age of AI, inviting us to consider what uniquely human capacities–beyond the intellectual pursuits that have come to define academia–we might tap into if we let the machines do what they do best.
Brendan Ozawa-de Silva offers inspiring insights from the frontiers of embodied education experiments at Emory University.