I can't even imagine what it must be like as an educator right now in K-12 or post-secondary. To really understand how these tools work, you have to immerse yourself in them and spend hours using them. It's not something that you just use a couple of times and think, "Okay, I've got it."
It feels like the pandemic! Sudden. Inescapable. A fact.
But as one who thrives in this sort of chaotic scenario, and with the luxury of a fully tech-ed up school, it’s also exhilarating. We are fortunate to be able to run low stakes in class tests, within a safe environment (Securly Chat, built on Gemini, armed to the nines with safeguards).
The exhaustion comes with trying to keep up, but a small group of us do this on behalf of everyone else & filter the actually useful stuff. And we have adopted the mantra of “Learn fast, implement more slowly” by Prof Rose Luckin of EducateVentures, which seems to be working well.
So, it’s a paradigmatic shift, but we have a pragmatic approach 👍🏼
That's a good way of putting it. Because it probably is a lot like that where you're constantly having to adapt on the fly and quickly. I think the way you all are doing it is the most efficient way given how fast everything is changing.
Plus, it's better to take the people who are really interested in this to give them the leeway to go and play with it then come back to teach everybody else.
Because it's not something that everyone is going to have the interest or the bandwidth to play with even if they're given the time to do it. So it sounds really smart what you all are doing.
I second that. The same with covid I felt frustrated and didn’t have time to learn how to adapt. Personal time was the only to learn alone how to organize everything efficiently. My institution was’t able to provide with guideline till end of covid. Likewise situation with AI, teachers do feel like AI just one more imposed thing to work with zero understanding how to use it. Whenever new technology emerge, teachers are left unguided to deal along with difficulties. Teachers education is another topic to talk too.
Yes, and unfortunately, it's really unfair to the teachers out there, especially when schools don't want to set firm policies and leave it ambiguous. It leaves everybody scrambling. And then, of course, so much is reactionary rather than planning for it. Education is notorious for waiting and seeing.
Nice find!!! Great write-up.
I can't even imagine what it must be like as an educator right now in K-12 or post-secondary. To really understand how these tools work, you have to immerse yourself in them and spend hours using them. It's not something that you just use a couple of times and think, "Okay, I've got it."
It feels like the pandemic! Sudden. Inescapable. A fact.
But as one who thrives in this sort of chaotic scenario, and with the luxury of a fully tech-ed up school, it’s also exhilarating. We are fortunate to be able to run low stakes in class tests, within a safe environment (Securly Chat, built on Gemini, armed to the nines with safeguards).
The exhaustion comes with trying to keep up, but a small group of us do this on behalf of everyone else & filter the actually useful stuff. And we have adopted the mantra of “Learn fast, implement more slowly” by Prof Rose Luckin of EducateVentures, which seems to be working well.
So, it’s a paradigmatic shift, but we have a pragmatic approach 👍🏼
That's a good way of putting it. Because it probably is a lot like that where you're constantly having to adapt on the fly and quickly. I think the way you all are doing it is the most efficient way given how fast everything is changing.
Plus, it's better to take the people who are really interested in this to give them the leeway to go and play with it then come back to teach everybody else.
Because it's not something that everyone is going to have the interest or the bandwidth to play with even if they're given the time to do it. So it sounds really smart what you all are doing.
I second that. The same with covid I felt frustrated and didn’t have time to learn how to adapt. Personal time was the only to learn alone how to organize everything efficiently. My institution was’t able to provide with guideline till end of covid. Likewise situation with AI, teachers do feel like AI just one more imposed thing to work with zero understanding how to use it. Whenever new technology emerge, teachers are left unguided to deal along with difficulties. Teachers education is another topic to talk too.
Yes, and unfortunately, it's really unfair to the teachers out there, especially when schools don't want to set firm policies and leave it ambiguous. It leaves everybody scrambling. And then, of course, so much is reactionary rather than planning for it. Education is notorious for waiting and seeing.
Thanks for the encouragement; it’s a wild ride, for sure 🏄🏻♀️
It sure is Madeleine!
“Arrival technologies don’t ask permission.”
That’s the line that hit me. Because in schools, we often wait to design our systems after the arrival—when the damage is done or the urgency is high.
But AI isn’t just a tech shift. It’s a values test.
That’s why I built CRAFT—so we could embed care, clarity, and context into the systems AI touches.
We have a window right now—not just to use AI, but to teach it what equity looks like.
If we don’t shape that, it will shape us.
Thanks for this piece. Deeply resonant.
I’m writing about this over at craftkeepers.substack.com—how frameworks like CRAFT can help AI support, not erode, human-centered design in schools.