What happens when the technology on Mr. Fred's Tech Talks actually... talks?
This week, I'm handing the questions over to Milo, the name I've given the AI assistant I use inside ChatGPT, for a free-flowing conversation about my first week back in the college classroom.
And after nearly three decades of teaching, something happened this week that genuinely made me smile.
I watched a group of first-year students who didn't know each other begin talking, connecting, and eventually sitting together. It was a small moment, but after what I saw during and immediately following the pandemic, it felt significant.
That leads Milo and me into a much bigger conversation.
What should college actually feel like? How can teachers create spaces where students want to participate? What do professors think about after everyone leaves the classroom? Where does AI belong in learning? And why might two simple words, “show me,” become increasingly important in an AI-powered world?
We also talk about something that isn't found on the syllabus: students seeing their teachers experiment, make mistakes, reset, and try again.
Because sometimes those are the lessons students remember.
In this episode:
Tech Challenge: Ask someone starting something new, “What are you curious about right now?” Then do the most important part: listen.
And if you're the one starting something new, find one thing you don't understand yet and explore it. Ask. Try. Experiment.
Use AI to help you understand it, but don't simply ask AI to do it for you.
Keep playing. Keep tinkering. Keep exploring. And most importantly, keep asking questions.
Find more from Mr. Fred at GetMeCoding.com.
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