Digest
A weekly round-up of the most important ideas, links, and tutorials.
🗞️ Empathetic AI Adoption
AI is slowly being adopted, but new use cases show potential for real human impact.
🗞 AI for the Rest of Us
Educators need AI. I've been building a company in AI, leading me back to the world of education.
🎧 Kid Prodigy to AI Educator: Kaz Keller's Journey to Empower Others with AI
12-year-old Kaz Keller is hosting AI workshops, training everyone from 12-year-old peers to 90-year-old community members on how to use AI. Kaz shares why AI should be taught in schools, his newfound appreciation for his teachers, and his dream of a selfie with Elon Musk.
🎓New Course: AI for Nonprofits
Don't fear AI. Use AI to make an impact in the world. This course will help.
🚨 Embracing AI: A New Career Adventure
I'm starting a new career adventure, working full-time, teaching, and consulting in AI. Few are taking advantage of AI, and that should change.
🗞 Educators as Builders - How EdTech Went Local
Every teacher is an edtech designer. With a foundation of empathy, educators are now empowered and able to solve classroom challenges.
🗞 Fractional Education: Bounty-based Learning, Upskilling as an Olympic Sport, BabyAGIs in Action
Education is an Olympic sport. Workers need to retrain every four years. The education system needs to prepare learners for this continual learning. Fractional education may be one solution.
🗞 Agents, Attribution, Education in the Age of AI
AI agents provide new superpowers and highlight the debate over attribution. With care, a model could emerge to support engaging teaching and innovative teachers.
🗞 Algorithmic Thinking, AI Tutors, LangChain, and more
The skills of the future may include learning to converse with machines, like your AI tutor built with LangChain. Learn about this future, known as algorithmic thinking.
Generative Courses, AI Video, AI as a Creative Mirror, and More
Generative courses can take adaptive learning one step further, as lessons change based on a student's activity. Explore generative courses, AI video, and more in this week's digest.
Launching Blocksteps - Personal Support for Learning Web3
Learning web3 can be scary - but it's important for professionals. Blocksteps is launching to provide webinars and courses to help you get started.