The AI Conversation in Education

There are many conversations happening in education around AI, but what impact are those conversations actually having on the classroom? And is there a way to make these AI conversations better for students and teachers alike?

In this conversation, teachers Mike Burns, Sam Collins, and Matt Hicks join The Broken Copier to talk about a unique conference next week—Humans First: Adolescent Education in the Age of AI Conference—that is aiming for a different type of AI conversation: one that centers the stories and perspectives of those in the classroom, and one that does not try to point towards a particular outcome. This episode serves as a sort of preview of the type of conversations around AI and education they hope to have at the conference next week and, more importantly, the type of AI conversations they hope will become the norm going forward.

As mentioned in the episode, all three of today’s guests have written more at length for Jane Rosenzweig’s The Important Work, so if you want to explore more of their thoughts on AI, that’s a great place to start:

• Shifting My Thinking about AI in the Classroom by Michael Burns

• Prove to Me You Aren’t a Robot by Samantha St Lawrence Collins

• Unmasking the humanity in the Humanities by Matt Hicks

Thanks, as always, to Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; and Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden.

• Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.

• Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro.

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