When did you last change your mind about how you learn?
Most of us build our ideas about education early, in our own classrooms, at our children’s schools, or in jobs that pushed us to keep up. Those ideas can carry us a long way. They can also stop us from asking new questions. And now that a tool like AI can answer almost anything in seconds, what happens to our curiosity?
In today’s solo episode, I reflect on more than 30 years of learning, teaching, and leading, and on why I am still reconsidering what effective learning looks like. I share how two books from the 1800s, found through my university’s library database, filled me with gratitude as the great-great-great-granddaughter of people who were enslaved. I talk about the timid parent I once was at school open houses, the evening I couldn’t help my son with his math homework, and how my first year teaching community college showed me the difference between schooling and education. I also take an honest look at AI and independent thinking, drawing on my own path from a manual typewriter to the first office computer. Tune in and listen to the fifty-seventh episode of I Can Do This, Show Me How! to find out what your curiosity might be ready to challenge.
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