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The Noise About AI Bias
The conversation about AI bias needs to become more nuanced and actionable. A better awareness requires understanding: that ethical bias and math bias aren't the same thing, and AI works through math; that many AI errors aren't due to (math) bias, but rather to another error type, noise; and that bias and noise have different solutions, including ones available to AI users.
Be Careful of Stealing a Student’s Realizations, Especially with AI Training
I argue that much of what educators tout as constructivist is really something in between knowledge delivery and experiential learning, and that gray zone is where realizations are robbed.
AI Literacy is the Art of Synergizing Intuitions
"Funny that it takes something artificial to force us to understand humanness." AI literacy is a dance between two intuitive 'creatures', helped only by the small, conscious piece of our brain. Lasting AI literacy skill is really about understanding our own minds and relating that to our artificial partners.
ADHDs May Be AI-Era Stars If Schools Stop Getting in the Way
ADHDs have strengths too, and those align well with the skills needed by AI-compatible workers.
AI May Drive a Crisis in Student Motivation; Individualization is the Remedy
You think student motivation is already bad? What will the uncertainty from AI do? In this article I address the most foundational aspect of schooling. Students must want to learn. What might the possibility of AI job consumption do to that? And how can AI supply part of the remedy?
‘Wisdom Skills’ Are Hard to Teach—AI Can Help
This Inside Higher Ed opinion article deals with the strategic reality that durable skills must be the highest priority in the AI era (for all education levels), that school paradigms are mismatched to that priority, and that game-based experiential learning, turbo-charged with AI, should be a key transformation tool.
It’s More Complicated Than “AI Won’t Replace Teachers”
The mantra is "AI won't replace teachers", but is that really true? AI could fill in for gaps in teacher availability, allow underused pedagogies, adapt quickly when instructors are too slow to learn new topics, and potentially shift paradigms of entire educational systems. Whether those impacts result in fewer teachers is a function of complex factors and societal choices.
Progress Report: Addressing HR Tasks with AI (Quoted)
I am quoted in this SAP.com article touting the potential benefits of game-based tools for assessing and improving workplace intangible skills.
Schools Should Borrow Change Processes From Software Development
Whether or not your school wants what software companies are selling, you should definitely adopt how complex software is developed-by lots of little steps instead of one giant leap. It's a hedge against uncertainty, and a defense against rapid, uncontrollable change.
AI Abstinence Makes Bad Outcomes More Likely
Maybe you aren't happy with Silicon Valley. Perhaps you think the world is better off without super-powerful AI. So you've decided to abstain. Think again. Being informed about AI is a prerequisite to joining the societal conversation, or the one in your organization.
Detection of AI Cheating is Unreliable and a Distraction
Think you or AI can catch your students cheating? That’s not likely, and it’s a time-consuming distraction from what’s needed—changing the way you teach.
AI Does Know More Than It’s Taught
There is a branch of AI chatbot misinformation that says it just parrots people, or that it doesn't 'know' anything. This is usually followed by an attempt to diminish AI's potential impact. Yet for years AI researchers have known that it figures out stuff it wasn't explicitly taught to do. The truth is more nuanced, and quite mysterious.
The Premortem of AI-Induced Educational Change
It's easy to get mentally stuck, individually and collectively. But what if we adopt a different perspective?
In this article, I leverage the premortem technique that assumes future failure and asks why it happened. From that vantage point, I see two big issues that should affect how educators think about AI right now.
One Year Later, AI in Education Has Evolved From 'Maybe Useful' to 'Paradigm Changing'
It's almost a year since the release of ChatGPT, and for many of us changed the way we think about a lot of things. It has been a whirlwind year.
The Applications of Experiential Learning Through Games
Training Industry Magazine article on how games can revolutionize corporate training and development.
Mitigating AI Bias is Also a User Responsibility
Unpacking the realities of AI-generation bias in HR
Navigating Ethical Changes in AI Adoption (for SRHM)
Lin Grensing-Pophal pens an article with some quotes from me about AI’s impact to Human Resources and the ethical considerations.
How AI Can Empower CHROs
Nicki Fleming and Fleur Segal from SpencerStuart discuss a discussion they and I had with CHROs about AI.
Newsletter: Overcoming Change Resistance
Newsletter: Overcoming Change Resistance
Article - The AI Debates Reveal an Education Community Echo Chamber
Video series - Managing the Stages of AI Grief
Commentary - Change Resistance in Higher Education: Colleges are Evading the Key Questions About Their Value
“Wisdom Factories” media appearances