There is No "Human-Centered 'AI'"
Two recently-published reports use the same phrase – “human-centered AI” – urging schools to adopt automated and predictive technologies that, as The 74’s Greg Toppo reports, “serve human-centered learning [and] that doesn’t simply push for more efficiency. To do anything else risks creating a generation of young people ill-equipped for
"AI" is Yesterday's News
I gave this talk yesterday to the Massachusetts Teachers Association, as part of the MTA Retired First Wednesday Speaker Series. Thank you very much for inviting me to speak to you today. I’m honored that you’ve asked me here, as I strongly believe that “AI” marks one of
The Recipe Change
Secret Agent Man
Some weeks, the education technology news is incredibly grim, and sorry to say this was one of those weeks. (Warning: this is a long email.) Indeed, anytime education- and child-related tech stories fill a Garbage Day newsletter as they did on Monday -- Garbage Day describes itself as a publication
Spring Was Never Waiting for Us
The Broken Record
I was amused to read Dan Meyer’s account of the recent AI+Education Summit at Stanford, particularly the remarks made by the university’s former president, John Hennessy, who asked the audience if anyone remembered “the MOOC revolution” and could explain how, this time, things will be different. The
How the World Still Dearly Loves a Cage
Ed-Tech Dragnet
“With Ring, American Consumers Built a Surveillance Dragnet” writes 404 Media co-founder Jason Koebler, in response to Amazon’s ad in the Super Bowl promising that its front poor camera could be turned into a neighborhood surveillance network. The ad posits that this as a good thing -- it’s
Downhill
The News, Weakly
Apologies, I'm a day late to my weekly round-up of education/technology news. I've been a bit under the weather this week. Is it a cold? The flu? COVID? Or perhaps just that generalized depression and overwhelming sense of doom – I do not know. But I
