I’ve been thinking about modern literacy and AI.

I recall @mcleod definition of literacy (roughly if my memory serves) as being able to communicate in the dominant forms of media of the time.

Dominant forms of media:
Text / Images / Audio / Video

(Part 1 🧵) Arbitrary barriers to expression in these forms of media have defined people as illiterate. Could AI be the great leveler to allow more people to be defined as literate and in turn intelligent? (2/8)

I’ve received a few requests to block #chatgpt on our school network. This feels like a pivotal moment in #edtech and 1:1 classrooms.

I believed going 1:1 & having access to an abundance of information was, in the hands of every student would fundamentally transform edu.

🧵 Change definitely occurred, but not in the way I had hoped & envisioned. In many ways 1:1 edtech became about productivity and testing machines. This is a reasonable progression, but missing huge opportunity.

In two instances during my teaching career, students worked for days & weeks on a project, submitted their work…and no one asked what their grade was.

The common characteristics:
1. A meaningful question
2. Authentic audience
3. Technology in the service of learning

Quick🧵 Meaningful Question:

One with no right answer that compels students to know and understand the concept in order to form their own perspective and create evidence of their thinking.