Jason Paddock

Policy Recommendations - Southern Regional Education Board Commission on AI in Education

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Anybody at SCASA i3 on here? #SCASAi325

How much cooler would the internet be if we all had our own websites? Shout out to you.

Story mentions that citizens won't like entry level fast food jobs replaced by AI. I'm just curious how long that negatively will last, especially if the service is improved and -- extreme techno-optimism incoming-- the ice cream machine always works.
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Congrats on retirement! Hope to continue to see your thoughts on EDU. Been reading your posts for over a decade.
Great advice, btw.

‘Nobody wants a robot to read them a story!’ The creatives and academics rejecting AI – at work and at home Is artificial intelligence coming for everyone’s jobs? Not if this lot have anything to do with it

I'm very empathetic to creators. (People don't respect or responsibly use creative works) However, I also want all of the possibilities: Only human created works, AI created works, and hybrids. There's good reason to have them all IF we can ensure that the work of human artists are respected.

YouTube video by Matthew Berman Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on the Future of AI

Lots of interesting things; but one in particular is the notion of a company hiring not just an employee but the employee's agents. Sometimes people want to bring their own devices to work. What happens if they want to use their own agents? Probably won't be allowed to connect to data/resources.

How do you have expertise or the ability to frame and analyze and solve problems without knowledge (information) though? It is that talking about "information they need" simply isn't ambitious enough? Need to get to the things you listed?

OPINION: Educators have the tools but not the training or ethical framework to use AI in education wisely. And that’s a problem The use of AI in education has risks, but it could help personalize learning and free teachers to spend more time doing what only humans can do: connect, mentor, care. Let’s ensure we get this right —...

AI question is less about "should we or shouldn't we" and more about how we strategically and mindfully start to use it in ways that make educators and students more human and not just more efficient.

@sigalsamuel.bsky.social Have you read Vallor's AI Mirror? If so, suitable replacement read for Technology and the Virtues?

Spend a third of school lessons on AI, says economist Daniel Susskind believes that there should be a focus on learning about new technology, as the government aims to drive up AI graduates

Yes, we need to teach kids both how to use and about AI, but 1/3 of lessons??!! As with search, to think about any of these things we need skills and content knowledge to meaningfully engage and be critical of AI. Dropping 1/3 of that in favor of focusing squarely on AI seems a bad strategy.

My students think it’s fine to cheat with AI. Maybe they’re onto something. To save the humanities, we need to rethink our assumptions about AI — and education.

Interesting questions about the role of the humanities department, particularly the questions of utilitarian vs. humanist mission of a higher ed. Curious about how "brutally honest" discussion about purpose of learning would impact K-12. What are the metaphors we need to help kids understand this?

One question is like to see discussed more is what does education look like in a post labor-prep world? Assuming most humans won’t be able to get a job and will have UBI, what are we wanting adults to be able to do?

This also resonated. #JPreadsTM

This resonated the most with me in ch 3. It’s a question I loosely think about almost every day. #JPreadsTM

Ch2 ends stating how Pressey wasn't able to see his machine become a success but nonetheless predicted an "industrial revolution" in ed tech. His work did help set the stage for wave after wave of technologies meant to revolutionize education, though mostly with questionable results. #JPreadsTM

Part of Pressey's argument for teaching machines was that they allowed for more individualized instruction (100 years ago!), a promise many software companies and tools make, though rarely actually bring to fruition. It brings to question what we mean by "individualized" instruction. #JPreadsTM

A key takeaway from ch2 is that, with the complexity coming of mass immigration, there was a push to make public education more efficient (read cheaper) while companies saw enormous profit motivation in finding solutions. But even if an idea was good, it was scrapped if not profitable. #JPreadsTM

Ch2 of Teaching Machines focuses on Sidney Pressey, who tried to market a machine that automatically scores tests back in the 1920s. At the time, there was a push for testing, and with it the burden of scoring. Pressey hoped to fix that with his machine, making the profession more humane. #JPreadsTM

And, as interesting as it is to connect with innovative companies, let's not make it about them. Software tools aren't the focus. The important thing is how we can make teaching & learning better, whether it's with tools OR without them. Critical lens is essential. Social media clout is not. 6/BSNew

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Of course, it's also true that many peeps are simply burned out on social media & simply prefer silly cat .gifs. I'm not judging. But this would be an entirely different space if more people took the time to share what they're working on and discovering, which would lead to more community. 5/BSNew

We see some of the results on BlueSky: many people became accustomed to simply receiving the gold nuggets rather than sharing their journey and having true community. So, when there aren't these "everything to know about Slides!" type posts, there's less engagement. 4/BSNew

At some point, this shifted. The rise of rock stars posting top ten lists and more people simply reposting rather than contributing themselves meant that the "community" became more of a echo chamber of retwitted lists and "so true!"ing posts. Marketing became the emphasis and not community. 3/BSNew

You felt like you were part of a community where everyone had value and was learning from each other. This was particularly helpful with the advent of Google Docs as many people were trying to figure out how to replace desktop software but also how we might rethink how we do things entirely. 2/BSNew

Some thoughts on starting new on BlueSky. First, going back to what made Twitter really magical for me was that it was a wide open space with a whole bunch of people working on small problems (many of them related to the then new "read/write web") and sharing their journey. 1/BSNew

Going to get back to reading and posting about Teaching Machines, but lots going on at the moment.

Much respect and love to all my EDU peeps trying to figure out what the future holds while wanting to make sure every K-12 student is treated well.

Reminds me of social media talk 15 years ago. Well here we are with a bunch of people trying to figure out how to get off social media as we see how negatively it can impact our lives.

Was just thinking about his comment about people saying don’t go to college and how it’s a very limited view. In the loser statement, I get how influential and game changing AI is/will be, but I’m not prepared to assume people who don’t use it will be losers.

“What’s missing?”