The Intelligence Age, Culture Design, Selfies Thru the Ages, and More

The world is focused on AI, and my week was no different, with four panels on AI and education. This collective focus is warranted because we’re in a new age.

🫖 Ed3 is here to help explain it, delivering a warm cup of chAI to get you through your weekend.

Let’s take a sip…

On the Age of Intelligence

🧠 We have been living in the Information Age. This week, we entered the Intelligence Age. In the Intelligence Age, information creates action.

Information is gathered, prepared, presented, and used specifically based on your needs. As Linus notes, the emergence of ChatGPT and Plugins for ChatGPT means everything will be connected to intelligence.

• Ask for a recipe, and the list of ingredients will be automatically ordered from Instacart

• Ask for details about an upcoming meeting and have questions created to ask based on the participants and their backgrounds, like Ethan Mollick did

• Ask for business ideas based on your interests, and an entire pitch deck will be created and emailed to investors for you

📚 Education in the Intelligence Age should similarly create action.

• Assessment should measure implementing ideas, not simply learning ideas

• Classrooms should be spaces for collaboration and creation, not simply information transfer

• Learning paths should be continuously redrawn based on interest and destination, not simply a linear path trod in a single-file line

How we move from today to this new age is the question. Five-year plans are not built for this moment, which is why culture is important.

👷 The importance of preparing for this new age became clear this week. A new research paper from OpenAI examines how their tool (and others like it based on large language models (LLMs)) will disrupt work. The verdict is grim:

🧮 Of course, we know there will be pushback without culture design. This is nothing new:

On Culture and AI

🛝 Incredibly, 1-to-1 tutoring at scale is a solved problem thanks to AI, according to Henrik Karlsson. But that’s not enough. Culture design is needed to spark curiosity when tutoring is cheap and personalized.

🛠 Designing a culture of curiosity was the topic of this week’s Ed3 Unplugged with Serj Hunt. If AI is going to help schools, culture will be essential.

🎧 Dive into that discussion in the link below, or on podcast or video.

On Getting Started with AI

🔗 A culture of curiosity starts by starting! To help you start, I hosted an asynchronous mini-course on creating AI Images this week.

With 5️⃣ minutes a day for 5️⃣ days, you can master AI design. The entire course was hosted with daily posts on LinkedIn. You can still join in the fun here.

As a subscriber, I’ll send you the lesson guide and video lessons next week!

📸 With this design knowledge, you can create something as fun as selfies throughout the ages:

💬 Text of the Week

I text a brilliant mind each week to learn what they are thinking. This week I talked to Adeel Khan - Founding School Director at DSST in Denver.

With thoughts of culture design on my mind, I asked: how do schools change?

His response:

Let’s keep learning. There is more coming. We can be the ones to integrate it into our organizations.

Be well!

-Scott