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The most exciting ideas in education, just for you
Happy Friday!
Each week I curate the projects, people, and ideas shaping the future of education. A prominent theme throughout my career is encouraging people to start: Build. Ship. Take action.
Whether small business owners in rural South Dakota or developers in the Philippines, Iβm a cheerleader for getting your hands dirty. π£
In that spirit, letβs dive in and share how to start.
On Creation π³
π¨ Simon Sarris argues in his excellent essay, βThe Most Precious Resource is Agency,β that we need to encourage children to create. In doing so, we spark their imagination. Itβs a unique view of employment, work, and creativity.
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On Creation All Around Us π
π Serj Hunt joined the Ed3 podcast. He argued, βwe canβt just put kids in front of AI and expect them to be Galileo.β
Instead, he suggests learning ecosystems - networks of learning resources that can be adapted around a specific learner's needs or interests.
Learning resources - libraries, museums, parks, community members, sports teams, etc. - exist within cities and regions. We can use those resources to customize and curate educational experiences.
Hunt argues that students spend too much time in the traditional classroom - a point we highlighted two weeks ago as numerous institutions rethink how long a degree should take.
On Creation with AI π§βπ»
π§ Enable students to talk to Homer, Shakespeare, or a professor any time, anywhere. Hereβs how to build it.
π«₯ Scribble Diffusion enables you to draw a rough shape and get a perfect image. This is perfect for people like me who know what they want to see but canβt draw it.
End game is sketching out a wireframe and getting a functioning web app
You could train a model to recognize arrows as API calls. You could write the logic for frontend functions in plain english in a sticky note next to each component
β Tim Connors β’ 101 (@itstimconnors)
4:27 AM β’ Feb 17, 2023
π€ Using AI requires a prompt - even if itβs a scribble. For text prompts, AI can help you create better prompts!
π§βπ« Use AI to auto-grade assignments, provide personalized feedback, and help increase students improve their skills over time. All without code.
Build your own AI coach (for anything), with no code.
β form input (tally)
β openai prompt
β output (email, slack, SMS)all automated through zapier
β Ben Tossell (@bentossell)
8:41 PM β’ Feb 14, 2023
On the Curious and Fascinating π§
π Ethiopia is lowering university entry standards because campuses are almost empty.
π Sobering read on the state of mental health in young girls - 6 of 10 girls report being persistently sad or hopeless.
On How to Create - Text of the Week π±
With this Digest focused on creation, I wanted to talk to my favorite creation cheerleader: Cam Houser.
Cam is the founder of Minimum Viable Video, 3 Day Startup, and teaches entrepreneurship with his company Actionworks.
I asked Cam: how do you encourage people to start?
His answer:
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Go Create
Thanks for reading and building. If you take one idea from today, build!