I still need to watch the video archive from the first gathering of ETMOOC2 and a shared exploration of Artificial Intelligence and I am getting myself acclimated to the Discord space where discussions are unfolding along different lines as the open community starts its explorations.
In terms of focus, I am hoping to try to develop some useful resources and lines of inquiry around the concepts of:
- Helping families of my students navigate this new world of AI in terms of learning, and helping them to better understand what ChatGPT and its many cousins are all about;
- Developing some elements of professional development for other educators that I might be able to offer in my school district or through my National Writing Project network (through my home site of the Western Massachusetts Writing Project);
- Grappling with the ethics of young students knowing and using AI tools, even though they are clearly not old enough nor mature enough to comprehend the emotional elements that come from working with technology that appears “sentient” even though it is not;
- Exploring more intersections of multimedia AI tools, and how they might merge together for artistic expression in a way that is meaningful and navigates the line between the ethical dilemmas of AI (such as ownership of the original material that the AI systems have scraped for its database);
- Building out a Diigo Outliner of resources that I hope to better curate around main themes of AI and writing and learning. Right now, it’s sort of a mess of links with no real structure or context. (This could fold into the professional development project).
We’ll see how it goes but I hope having some guiding focal points will be helpful for me, particularly as the school year goes into high gear with the end of the year on the horizon in June.
Peace (and Thinking),
Kevin
I’m glad you joined in. I’ll look forward to reading your reflections.
Thanks, Daniel
As I look at your list again, with a two week perspective from ETMOOC2, it seems that there’s another, larger, lesson to be learned and shared.
In your first bullet you wrote “Helping families of my students navigate this new world of AI in terms of learning, and helping them to better understand what ChatGPT and its many cousins are all about;”
The entire ETMOOC gathering and interaction on different platforms, with blogs, with Tweets, etc. is a demonstration of different people gathering around a specific interest. Imagine if people in communities applied this example to discussing local issues that need to be addressed. Or if this led to people from many communities interacting around specific issues.
I’ve pointed to MOOCs from my blog since around 2012 to demonstrate this potential. It’s a constant “nudge the network” effort!