Peter Olson-Skog - How AI Is Forcing Schools to Rethink Learning

I guess we can jump into the meat of it too.

Like, I mean, how do you see this wave being different? Because I'm sure you've seen technology come into classrooms or impact students over the course of time.

How do I see this wave being different than prior ones?

Or do you?

Yeah, I guess I see a lot of similarities.

So maybe I'll start there to try and identify the differences.

The similarities is that there's hesitance.

Teachers and educators, especially in my mind, pre-K-12 educators, don't have enough time to develop their lessons.

If I was to tell a salesperson, here's your day tomorrow.

You're going to present three different sales pitches.

Actually, let's make it six different sales pitches to six different audiences.

They all have to be different.

They all have their unique needs.

And I'm going to give you 45 minutes to prepare for all six presentations.

And then the day after that, you're going to do it again.

with six new topics, six new groups of people, and you're still going to have 45 minutes to get all that ready.

So then in the midst of all of that, you need things to help you be efficient with the time that you have.

But you also develop these lessons, and they become these cherished things in your lives because you're like, oh, this is something that I really poured my blood, sweat, and tears into.

It's worked well.

And then I don't have enough time to change that entirely every year all the time.

So I think you get this hesitance, understandably so, when something new comes in.

And so because not only are you trying to figure out the lesson, but now you're trying to figure out this new technology and does it work? What happens when it glitches? I'm live.

80% of the day with 30 kids in front of me, and when it fails, it's a problem.

I think the way that it's similar is that there's hesitance.

One way that it's different, I think, is people have worried about cheating using technology every time it comes up, right? Calculators were a form of cheating for some.

I guess we can jump into the meat of it too.

Like, I mean, how do you see this wave being different? Because I'm sure you've seen technology come into classrooms or impact students over the course of time.

How do I see this wave being different than prior ones?

Or do you?

Yeah, I guess I see a lot of similarities.

So maybe I'll start there to try and identify the differences.

The similarities is that there's hesitance.

Teachers and educators, especially in my mind, pre-K-12 educators, don't have enough time to develop their lessons.

If I was to tell a salesperson, here's your day tomorrow.

You're going to present three different sales pitches.

Actually, let's make it six different sales pitches to six different audiences.

They all have to be different.

They all have their unique needs.

And I'm going to give you 45 minutes to prepare for all six presentations.

And then the day after that, you're going to do it again.

with six new topics, six new groups of people, and you're still going to have 45 minutes to get all that ready.

So then in the midst of all of that, you need things to help you be efficient with the time that you have.

But you also develop these lessons, and they become these cherished things in your lives because you're like, oh, this is something that I really poured my blood, sweat, and tears into.

It's worked well.

And then I don't have enough time to change that entirely every year all the time.

So I think you get this hesitance, understandably so, when something new comes in.

And so because not only are you trying to figure out the lesson, but now you're trying to figure out this new technology and does it work? What happens when it glitches? I'm live.

80% of the day with 30 kids in front of me, and when it fails, it's a problem.

I think the way that it's similar is that there's hesitance.

One way that it's different, I think, is people have worried about cheating using technology every time it comes up, right? Calculators were a form of cheating for some.