I recently posted this piece on the MV Ventures blog. It provoked a nice response, so I thought it was worth sharing (again) here on Rooted. 💡MV Ventures is an R&D consultancy where I serve as a senior
Large Language Models
Assessment in the Context of Intelligent Machines: Making Human Thinking Visible (Provocative Questions in the Age of AI, vol. 4)
How do we leverage the human advantage to make human thinking visible in the age of cognitive technologies? The End of High School English? Or, Photography's Not Dead!The question of assessment practices in the context of artificial intelligence is
Plato Warned Us About Elon, or Signs Mistaken for Wonders in the Age of AI (Provocative Questions in the Age of AI, vol. 2)
How might we teach, model, and develop AI literacy in all learners, so that they do not mistake machinic outputs for wonders? How might we leverage generative AI's wondrous powers to augment student learning and performance? Are these two questions
Plato Would Like To Remind You: Writing Is A Technology, Not A Natural Human Competency (Provocative Questions in the Age of AI, vol. 1)
Are we succeeding when it comes to convincing kids of the value of human-generated writing? What happens when we reframe the conversation by acknowledging that writing is technology? Techne, Episteme, & Plato:As a former English teacher, this post feels
The Death of the Author, Again: Chat GPT, Writing, & the Promising Opportunities
Co-authored by Jared Colley + ChatGPT Anthony Brandt and David Eagleman in their book, Runaway Species: How Human Creativity Remakes the World, offer a three part framework for understanding how novel things are created. Using the three cognitive maneuvers – Breaking, Blending,