12 Challenging Questions For AI-Based Learning Innovations
Lesson Plan Generators Default To Bad Pedagogy
“They looked at 90 lesson plans from MagicSchool AI, SchoolAI, and straight OpenAI GPT-4. They didn’t set out to embarrass anyone — but the results speak for themselves… Here’s what the researchers found: MagicSchool leaned heavily on quiet, individual work — often defaulting to instructions like “assign a worksheet and ask students to work quietly.” […]
Kids Are Using AI Companions. Here Are Interviews.
““What, if at all, have you, your friends, and people your age used genAI for?” Over half of our 27 interviewees spontaneously named experimenting with AI characters specifically, unprompted. Interviewees were keenly aware that AI companions “were a thing”, with many naming either direct personal experimentation with sites like Character AI or by “hacking” ChatGPT […]
“Instructor Essentialism” And Other Critiques Of AI Resistance
Exploring OpenAI’s Five Steps To AGI
“Will AI Strengthen Or Erode Human-To-Human Relationships?”
“I’ve created a resource to proactively envision how young people might relate to and utilize chatbots, with different impacts on human connection. The framework below maps four different possible futures, each representing the most common chatbot experience for young people.”