Brent Peterson

Part 3 Reflection

Part 3

  • January 11, 2024 at 6:12 AM
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It certainly feels like we are at the tip of the iceberg when it comes to what AI is going to do for society. Many of the things that will come of. This are not going to be some thing that we notice on a day-to-day unless we really think about it. This might come in the form of the evolution of driverless cars or systems that run the day-to-day processes in our businesses and towns. 

In education, a can see this really becoming a much more beneficial tool as time goes by. None of this was originally created with the intent of being used in education, it simply started to get used in education because educators who are forward thinking, started to see the potential it had. As some of the tools evolve, such as the Khanmigo tool in Kahn academy, we might see more adoption and acceptance by others in our profession, and a lot more willingness to have students utilize these tools to become those tutors in the room that we often do not have the time ourselves to be. When you think of differentiation and support and how much of that is now necessary in our classrooms, my hope is that AI is at some point going to be a better bridge to getting students the supports. They need on a daily basis, both in school and at home and also lessen the burden on the classroom teacher, who has pulled in so many directions.
As I said, in the part to fireside discussion response, I think we are going to see the education having to play a large role in teaching students about when and why these tools should be used in their daily lives. When we think of what a graduate needs to be successful in both college and beyond my prediction is that AI tools are going to have to be part of that, as a skill set that students learn so that they can implement what they know about using these tools in both college, and in their future careers. Being a prompt engineer is already a job that someone can be paid handsomely to do.  These types of roles are only going to increase and evolve as years go by in the tools get better and better. They may not be prompting engineers as careers in the future, but there will be some thing related to AI (or many things related to AI is probably a better way to put it) that students would be able to leverage as a career fieldin the future.  As educators, we've always been at the front line of instructing kids on some of these new evolving technologies and careers that they may be able to embark on if it interests them and I don't see any reason why that won't be similarly important as AI grows in our society.