{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67379cc384d1e023f7191616/6a29cf4c3f4eb34728d3a08f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"How AI Could Help Learners Thrive ","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/67379cc384d1e023f7191616/1781124849206-6248e32f-133b-4c36-bcfe-e5e762cb8c57.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The backlash against screens (and technology in school broadly) is growing, and with good reason. In this episode of Future Fluent, Betsy and Jeremy explore with Dr. Babak Mostaghimi of Learner Studio what it takes to build technology, including AI-based tutors, that bring people together rather than isolating them. The bottom-line question: Learning should help people thrive: How could AI be designed to do that?</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>Oh, it’s hard to be human these days! Start with reading all about it.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><ul><li>Babak Mostaghimi is part of the Learner Studio team. The team <a href=\"https://learnerstudio.org/anthology/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">published a collection of pieces (including one by Betsy!) called “Bringing the Future Into Focus</a>.” And check out Mostaghimi’s piece, “<a href=\"https://learnerstudio.org/how-can-ai-be-used-as-a-tool-for-learning-beyond-more-efficiency-toward-current-outcomes/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">How can AI be used as tool for learning, beyond more efficiency toward current outcomes</a>?”&nbsp;&nbsp;</li></ul><p>&nbsp;</p><ul><li>Michelle Culver created <a href=\"https://www.therithmproject.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Rithm Project,</a> a nonprofit, to “think out loud about what it means to be human–together–in an AI age.” <a href=\"https://therithmproject.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-rithm-project\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Her substack is here.</a>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Julia Freeland Fisher, director of education research at the Christensen Institute, has written extensively on the value of networks. Check out this report: <a href=\"https://whoyouknow.org/relationship-mapping/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Students’ hidden networks: Relationship mapping as a strategy to build asset-based pathways.</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>We talked about the work going on at<a href=\"https://www.okolabs.ai/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"> OKO Labs in teaching math. </a>And the <a href=\"https://edges.ideo.com/posts/what-is-the-future-design-language-of-robots\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">work reimagining robots that’s going on at IDEO.</a>&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>McKinsey Global has been reporting on the future of work here:“<a href=\"https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/future-of-work/jobs-lost-jobs-gained-what-the-future-of-work-will-mean-for-jobs-skills-and-wages\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jobs lost, jobs gained: What the future of work will mean for jobs, skills, and wages.” </a>The World Economic Forum has this set of stories about <a href=\"https://www.weforum.org/stories/artificial-intelligence/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the role Artificial Intelligence may play in the world here.&nbsp;</a></li></ul><p><br></p><ul><li>Dan Meyer, who never pulls his punches, <a href=\"https://danmeyer.substack.com/p/everyone-in-edtech-should-show-their\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">put up this challenge in his Substack</a>: “I’d like to see from everyone engaged in this discourse: one (1) stationary video of a full classroom session.” The challenge is on!&nbsp;</li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Jeremy Roschelle and Betsy Corcoran "}