Latest / Integrate This! Ed Tech Podcast / The Human Side of AI with Tyler Moberg: Ethics, Creativity, and Classroom Impact
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- 0:00Welcome to Integrate This, your go -to EdTech
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- 0:25and let's integrate this. Hello and welcome to
- 0:40the Integrate This EdTech podcast. If you're
- 0:43joining us here today and watching on YouTube,
- 0:46you can definitely see that we have another guest
- 0:48with us here today. And if you're listening on
- 0:50either Apple podcast or Spotify, we welcome you
- 0:54as part of the audience also. But we have with
- 0:56us today, Tyler Moberg. Tyler is the founder
- 1:01of a company called Amplified Impact Solutions.
- 1:05But I know his background is much more than that.
- 1:08And Tyler, I'm just going to let you handle a
- 1:09little bit of an introduction of yourself if
- 1:11you if you don't mind. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.
- 1:14So I my background is I was a middle school science
- 1:17teacher for I was in public education for 16
- 1:21years and a pretty large part of that was teaching
- 1:24middle school science and never thought I would
- 1:26be doing anything else. I loved it and got a
- 1:29tap or an invitation to become an instructional
- 1:31coach and kind of hesitantly was like maybe and
- 1:36ended up really developing a passion for leadership
- 1:39and in being an instructional leader. And from
- 1:44there got an invitation to join a company called
- 1:47the Bob Pike Group and got to travel around the
- 1:50country and consult organizations on their training
- 1:52practices. And how do you deliver a good training
- 1:55where people actually learn? So kind of taking
- 1:57this educational background, but working in corporate.
- 2:01And I would describe it like. like zaretta hammond
- 2:04for adults kind of right like neuroscience based
- 2:07like research based stuff and yeah so that's
- 2:11that then i and then i started amplified impact
- 2:13which we can talk about in a minute but there
- 2:15you go Yeah, I mean, and that that is quite the
- 2:18journey. And I think some of us kind of come
- 2:20from or start to follow a similar path. Maybe
- 2:23we don't all wind up in corporate training or
- 2:26anything like that. But, you know, the idea of
- 2:28being a classroom teacher, I think lends itself
- 2:31really well to leading in front of other groups.
- 2:35I don't know if it's just something about you.
- 2:38You learn to understand who your audience is
- 2:41and how to relate with them and build the connections
- 2:44with them, which then makes whatever it is that
- 2:46you're presenting on, whether it be to students
- 2:48or teachers or other adult learners, I think
- 2:51just that much easier, you know? Yeah. Yeah.
- 2:54Like one of my big surprises as I've done this
- 2:57work with applying that teaching background is
- 2:59like, how many organizations deliver training
- 3:03by reading PowerPoints with bullet points and
- 3:06tons of text on the slide and they're not engaging?
- 3:08And I think, yeah, having that education background
- 3:11to be like, you know, that saying, like, if you
- 3:13can teach middle school, you can teach anything.
- 3:15And I think the reason is because you get immediate
- 3:18feedback if you have a bad lesson, because it's
- 3:20not the kids that, you know, you get misbehavior,
- 3:22right? Or kids, you know, they let you know if
- 3:25you're not on. And I think adults can do that,
- 3:28too, except they just might disengage and become
- 3:31some of the worst students that we have. Yes.
- 3:33OK, so you've also then founded your own organization
- 3:37here, Amplified Impact, which... I don't know
- 3:40if it was coincidental or just intentional, but
- 3:46amplified impact AI does that have anything to
- 3:49do with that was subtle. That was subtle, but
- 3:51it was intended. There was a little purpose.
- 3:54It was a little purposeful. So like, I've done
- 3:57a lot of like introspection and like, what's
- 3:59my why? And it's not about AI. My personal why
- 4:02is like is is connecting people and ideas to
- 4:05fuel growth and amplify impact. Like when I'm
- 4:08doing that, when I'm connecting people and ideas
- 4:10to help people grow so they can make an impact,
- 4:12like that could be in any setting, right? In
- 4:15any role that I'm doing and have found that,
- 4:18you know, as I, as I gain more experience and
- 4:21expertise in AI, AI can help you do that, right?
- 4:23It can help you amplify your ability to make
- 4:25an impact. And so, um, yeah, kind of, kind of
- 4:29started using AI. The way, the way it started
- 4:31is I started using AI a ton in my work in corporate
- 4:34training and thought to myself like, wow, this
- 4:37is pretty cool. Then I went down the rabbit hole,
- 4:39which maybe you've gone down, both of you have
- 4:41gone down to have like, well, wonder what else
- 4:43there is. And I just keep learning and keep learning.
- 4:45And so much so that I was like, you know, I kind
- 4:46of want to I want to do something with this.
- 4:48I want to start my own company. And so now I
- 4:52started working with educators and it's branched
- 4:54from there. But basically helping people learn
- 4:57how to leverage everyday AI. In their in their
- 5:01work in their everyday work, you know Not like
- 5:03novelty ai not like super techy stuff because
- 5:06like, you know as a teacher like i'm tech friendly
- 5:08But i'm not like a techie And uh, I think so
- 5:12many people there's a lot of misconceptions There's
- 5:15a lot of um fear for good reason about like what
- 5:18what is this? What is ai? and uh Just been able
- 5:22to apply, you know that teaching background of
- 5:25what how do you deliver a good a good training?
- 5:28So people learn and they're equipped and it helps
- 5:30helps them grow. Yeah, and I would imagine you've
- 5:33been kind of busy the last couple of weeks here,
- 5:35but as well as ramping up going to different
- 5:37districts. In fact, I think you were in a district
- 5:40that was that's part of ECMEC in the one of the
- 5:45people that was attending your your session.
- 5:47A kindergarten teacher is my son's girlfriend's
- 5:51mom. Oh, man. And I chat with her quite a bit
- 5:55and we were having dinner the other night and
- 5:58she gave a big shout out to you and said, what
- 6:00a fantastic job that you did. And how, you know,
- 6:02you talked about a lot of people that feel a
- 6:06lot of fear towards AI. She was definitely in
- 6:09that category. And so you helped to assuage some
- 6:12of those fears of her. So a shout out to her
- 6:16and from the other teachers in Princeton, which
- 6:18is, I think we're with Princeton. OK, yeah, that
- 6:20was great. Yeah. Yep. Yeah, that was a busy busy
- 6:23couple weeks. I think I had six keynotes in five
- 6:26days of like kick kickoff district kickoff So
- 6:28it was like it was it was fun and it was a it
- 6:31was intense Yeah, that's uh, it's really great
- 6:36too when you're having those interactions because
- 6:38you like you said there's a lot of teachers that
- 6:40they they're not really sure how to approach
- 6:43it and so it's uh, it's nice if you can give
- 6:45them some you know incremental things to work
- 6:47towards and and start that process because it
- 6:50can be a little bit daunting. As far as your
- 6:59passions, you mentioned you were a science teacher
- 7:02for a long time. So what was it that kind of
- 7:05sparked your passion for blending educational
- 7:08practices, neuroscience and AI tools together?
- 7:16Travel and experienced what what corporate training
- 7:20looks like with this kind of arsenal of like,
- 7:23you know, my teaching pedagogy, like designing
- 7:26meaningful learning experiences is like, just
- 7:30I'm passionate about that, right? Like, just
- 7:33how can you engage people so that after whatever
- 7:35time they're spending with you, they walk away
- 7:37and they're inspired or they're equipped to to
- 7:40do more with their current work? Like, I just
- 7:43saw that opportunity and and saw how AI could
- 7:46help play a part in that. And right now, I'm
- 7:49kind of like, you know, I don't want to be the
- 7:51AI guy, but like, I want to be the guy who helps
- 7:54people with their work. And so it just happens
- 7:58right now that AI is one of the tools that helps
- 8:00us helps do that. Yeah, so, you know, getting
- 8:05into some of that stuff about helping AI helping
- 8:09you with your work, right? You know, and I think
- 8:12part of that is if you're gonna use AI most effectively.
- 8:17It has to be something that is, and I'm stealing
- 8:20your words here, so I'm leading you into it,
- 8:24practical, approachable, and immediately valuable.
- 8:28What do you think that looks like? And maybe
- 8:31you want to tackle it from the perspective of
- 8:33a classroom teacher or in a corporate work environment,
- 8:37or even as a student sitting in a classroom too.
- 8:41How do you think that you know, how can we make
- 8:44that, you know, practical and approachable and
- 8:46valuable? Yeah. Well, it makes me think a little
- 8:51bit about like my teaching journey. Like when
- 8:54I started teaching, that was at Osseo Junior
- 8:57High. And I remember like workshop week, my first
- 9:00week of school, like walking by another teacher
- 9:02who was super experienced, probably near retirement
- 9:05walk by. And I remember seeing like, you know,
- 9:07he had all these worksheets all printed out.
- 9:09The whole year was laid out in front of him and
- 9:11And I remember being like, at least that ignorant,
- 9:14maybe that was, I don't know what my mindset
- 9:16was. I'm not, I'm not like proud of this, but
- 9:18I remember thinking, Oh, I can't wait till someday
- 9:20when I just have my whole curriculum thought
- 9:22through and planned out. And I'm going to just,
- 9:24you know, be able to focus on kids and I'm set.
- 9:28And then I started teaching and the more that
- 9:31I taught, you know, from, I taught various grades
- 9:34and positions and then the more that I learned,
- 9:37the more that I realized how much goes into.
- 9:41good teaching right like to be a good teacher
- 9:44you know there's not just being in front of kids
- 9:47right there's all the background of you know
- 9:50you know what do you want students to know and
- 9:52do and how are you gonna know if they know it
- 9:53learned it and how you're gonna respond being
- 9:55responsive and actually like that's where a lot
- 9:56of the fun is in teaching but thinking about
- 10:00okay teachers have so much on their plate and
- 10:03now you have to learn ai right now i gotta add
- 10:06another another layer to this and Tell me if
- 10:10this is true in your experience and maybe this
- 10:12is just way too obvious But AI is something that
- 10:15can help come alongside and be a part of all
- 10:18the things that we have on our plates as teachers
- 10:21to Everyone's saying yeah, you can get faster,
- 10:25right? But you could get faster on the wrong
- 10:27things and just have more worksheets or have
- 10:29more like less engaging instruction But then
- 10:32what I've experienced in the way that I really
- 10:35promote using AI is to think better And to have,
- 10:39you know, more depth, more thought through, more
- 10:42intentional delivery lessons, engagement, all
- 10:46of that. So I do think, you know, if you start
- 10:49with that great learning goal in mind, right,
- 10:51and then you have this arsenal of tools and tricks
- 10:56and, you know, that you've built this relationship
- 11:00with the audience, the group of people that you're
- 11:02working with students, then it's just a matter
- 11:05of from that menu of different options that you
- 11:08have, choosing like the right ones in the right
- 11:10time, in the right ways. Right. And then I think
- 11:13that's part of, you know, you can get that from
- 11:15experience. But, you know, it also comes from
- 11:20just keeping abreast of changes and developments
- 11:22and, and knowing the changes that are happening
- 11:25in kids' lives. And then, you know, in all of
- 11:28that brought in together, I think is what kind
- 11:30of helps, helps make that really work. Yeah.
- 11:34Yeah. And like, you know, instead of like, like,
- 11:37you know, all you think of all these tasks, what
- 11:41if you didn't have to do it all? What if you
- 11:42could, what if you could help accelerate? You
- 11:44know, what if you, you know, let's just say random
- 11:46example, let's say you wanted to gamify a learning
- 11:48experience. Well, in the past, if you wanted
- 11:52to gamify something, you'd have to kind of like
- 11:53think of the game and write the rules or the
- 11:56directions. And like, you know, this is maybe
- 11:58a silly example, but you could apply this to
- 12:00differentiation, writing assessments, whatever.
- 12:03But like, If you can describe what you want or
- 12:06you have examples or exemplars of, here's kind
- 12:08of what I want. Now you can have AI come alongside
- 12:12and like you drive and steer it, but you can,
- 12:14you can, you can create stuff that may not have
- 12:17been possible to create just by describing it.
- 12:21And, and I just think that that's such a powerful
- 12:23way to, to think about it and, um, not using
- 12:28AI. Just for AI sake right like it's not like
- 12:30oh, we're just gonna try to use AI for everything
- 12:32It's like I think you were kind of talking like
- 12:33you got to actually solve a real problem. It
- 12:35needs to actually Fix fix something challenging
- 12:39Yeah, I think that's a it's interesting to point
- 12:42out too because it does make the the AI that
- 12:45is available to educators now and really any
- 12:47professional there's there's so much opportunity
- 12:51for Learning about things that you didn't previously
- 12:54know because the entry point is a little bit
- 12:56easier now. Because as you said, like you can
- 12:59just, you can go to an AI system and describe
- 13:01what it is that you have in your mind that you'd
- 13:03like to try or work towards. And the AI just
- 13:06comes up alongside you then to provide information
- 13:09that you don't really have. And then you're then
- 13:11at that point, you're kind of pairing your what,
- 13:14what your kind of dream or goal is with what
- 13:16the AI can help you produce. And that's always
- 13:19best because like some things that Jeremy and
- 13:22I have done, I know it just with Like website
- 13:25creation for example and coding know nothing
- 13:27about any of those things, you know able to able
- 13:31to enter those areas because of AI being available
- 13:35to us and helping along that process. So that's
- 13:40our over our own Examples anyway, and yeah, I
- 13:44mean that's such a great example right now If
- 13:47you can describe it and envision it you don't
- 13:49have to have the coding or tech expertise to
- 13:52actually make it happen And that's a way different
- 13:55way of thinking about pretty much anything you're
- 13:58doing. You know, I think along with what David
- 14:00is saying, too, you know, the ease of the entry
- 14:02point. But it also is, I think, pretty easy for
- 14:05teachers to see how it can be applied in their
- 14:08classroom. Like you just kind of going back to
- 14:10your gamification example. That really asking
- 14:14AI to help you create all of the different variables
- 14:17and steps that would be involved in gamifying
- 14:20a lesson. And it's not that you couldn't get
- 14:23to that point, and you probably could. but the
- 14:27speed at which it can get you to where you were
- 14:29already going to end up, and maybe even throw
- 14:33in some things you never would have thought of,
- 14:35right? And now the teacher can actually visualize
- 14:38it because AI helped them create it, that they
- 14:41can now turn around and find the practical way
- 14:43to actually use it, integrate it into their classrooms,
- 14:47and maybe find a new way to engage an audience
- 14:50of students that they weren't connecting with
- 14:52previously. Yeah, I think that's well said. It's
- 14:58like you can hit the ground at 50 miles an hour
- 15:00or 30 miles or whatever. It's not all the way
- 15:03there, but it doesn't take up so much energy,
- 15:08your limited energy and space and you can still
- 15:10come out with something. I like how you said,
- 15:12it helps you think of things you might not have
- 15:13even thought of. That's one of my favorite parts
- 15:16is like, oh, I never thought about that angle
- 15:18and then now it's higher quality. Yeah, I want
- 15:23to ask a follow -up question too like because
- 15:25we you've you've worked with a lot of different
- 15:27groups and Because I know Jeremy and I got to
- 15:30sit in on one of your keynotes what at the Mingai
- 15:34I saw me and But you've worked with a lot of
- 15:37school districts to With with different teachers
- 15:40at varying levels. So your elementary teachers
- 15:42high school, etc, right? What has been some of
- 15:48the differences between your work with the professional
- 15:52settings where you're working with more tech
- 15:56integrationists or tech coordinators, directors,
- 15:59admin? Have you seen any distinctions there between
- 16:03kind of your uses for things with AI versus how
- 16:08teachers are approaching it when they're talking
- 16:09with you? That's a great question. Yeah, I mean,
- 16:14I think about the range of types of and I started
- 16:17with educators and then I started working with
- 16:19ed leaders but it's branched into engineers and
- 16:23marketers and sales and HR and every single group
- 16:27I never would have thought like I'm not like
- 16:29um earlier today I was on a social media and
- 16:32AI podcast but I'm not really good at social
- 16:34media to be honest but like the idea of how do
- 16:37you think differently about your work is doesn't
- 16:41matter your role and I think um And maybe we
- 16:45can talk about this in a little while, but like
- 16:47having a new set of mindsets on how you thought
- 16:51partner with AI. It, yeah, I mean, I don't, it
- 16:58just, you just think differently about what you're
- 17:01capable of doing. And yeah, differences, you
- 17:05pointed out there's such a wide range from. people
- 17:09who have never opened up a chat thread to people
- 17:12who are really leading the way in their in their
- 17:14team and Trying it is a big challenge to design
- 17:18something where you're hitting people at at both
- 17:21levels and Not that every one of mine have been
- 17:26perfect, but I will say like I think so the feedback
- 17:30that I've that I've gotten has been like wow
- 17:32you hit me here and you know if you were just
- 17:34learning and I don't know I think the way that
- 17:38you design that space of like honoring the experience
- 17:41that is there and not just saying I know all
- 17:44of this because you if you claim to be an expert
- 17:46like you know everything about AI I think that
- 17:49even communicating that like you can't you just
- 17:53there's no way right it's just constantly changing
- 17:55and if you if you treat it like a collaborative
- 17:58space where yes I have some learning objectives
- 18:02and some goals and some content that I want to
- 18:05communicate but what if we're all alongside kind
- 18:07of in this together applying it to real work
- 18:09and then you getting some feedback on like what
- 18:15how it's going and actually getting kind of rewarded
- 18:17because you're like oh this this actually felt
- 18:19like it helped me with my with what I have to
- 18:21do anyways so I don't know And David and I have
- 18:27talked before. It's like, yeah, we don't expect
- 18:30to be experts. And I don't think most people
- 18:33are going to be experts in AI, especially as
- 18:36they're being introduced to it. But they have
- 18:38the ability to build capacity, right? They can
- 18:41add to wherever they're at and use those AI tools
- 18:46to enhance their workflow, their workload, whatever
- 18:50it is that they're trying to produce. Yeah. Yeah,
- 18:55absolutely. Can I can I share with you the top
- 18:57my favorite general ways that I use it and I'm
- 18:59actually curious what you would say for you sure
- 19:01So for number one for me more than any other
- 19:06use case is organizing my thinking and my thoughts
- 19:10on whatever it is that I'm doing whether it be
- 19:13a training project challenge is like think tanking
- 19:20with AI by laying it all out there and Using
- 19:24the voice mode, specifically the dictate button,
- 19:26which is a highly recommended tip. Are you guys
- 19:29using the dictate, I would imagine? Do you voice
- 19:32your prompts mostly? Need to use it more. Yeah,
- 19:37I'm getting to where I'm almost 50 -50. If I'm
- 19:41in front of my computer, and I'm probably more
- 19:44typing because I've got the keyboard right there,
- 19:46but if I'm on my phone for sure, it's the dictate.
- 19:50Yeah, I mean and it depends on if you're alone
- 19:52or not. Yeah, but But that's my number one way
- 19:56that I interact with AI and I will so this organizing
- 19:59my thinking I will kind of just lay it out there,
- 20:01right? Yes There's some prompting strategies
- 20:03of kind of just like what you're gonna but it's
- 20:05really just good communication, right? Here's
- 20:07what I'm trying to do. Here's what I got going
- 20:08on Help me organize these thoughts, you know,
- 20:10maybe dig deeper and ask me questions I ask AI
- 20:13to interview me so that it can learn more and
- 20:16help me organize what I'm doing and then from
- 20:20there, now that single chat thread has all the
- 20:23context from whatever it is that I'm trying to
- 20:26do. And then from there, then I can springboard
- 20:28into like getting more real, whatever that next
- 20:31step is in that project. But like, what might
- 20:34be swirling, unformed, unclear, I can't quite
- 20:37put it to words. There's like a deepening for
- 20:40me of understanding. Because when you put thoughts
- 20:43to words, like that's actually part of the learning
- 20:45process for me. But in that process, I get some
- 20:50structure to it, which then helps me with whatever
- 20:52I have next. That's maybe a long answer to my
- 20:56top use case, but it's a daily. Yeah. I would
- 21:02say my top use is for asking it for helping me
- 21:11to put together recipes or to create some new
- 21:14dish to make at home. you know and I know that's
- 21:17with the product but that but also is that process
- 21:19because I'll go in and say here are the things
- 21:22that I have you know and and just like you I
- 21:24I'm probably at that point doing it on my phone
- 21:27and and I'm telling it hey I got this this that
- 21:30and I might have some leftover of this you know
- 21:32what can we put together and oh yeah by the way
- 21:34you know we had Mexican last night and I want
- 21:36it to be more Italian tonight you know Like it'll
- 21:40organize all of those different things in together
- 21:42to tell me what to make. And I really, it's that
- 21:47assistant part of it. I'm using it to, to help
- 21:50me organize and to structure the way that I'm
- 21:52thinking. And then, and then I get to create
- 21:55something, which is the part that I enjoy. That
- 22:00was my my first experience with chat GPT and
- 22:03is super memorable of doing something like that
- 22:06with the photo thing where you put the photo
- 22:07in there. Here's my fridge. Here's my pantry
- 22:09based on what I have in here. What should I cook
- 22:11for dinner tonight? You know, using only those
- 22:13that was like my epiphany like super vivid memory
- 22:16that was a springboard for me to ask if it can
- 22:21do that. What else can it do so? Right, yeah.
- 22:26Yeah, for me, I think it's more like the. I just
- 22:30feel like I always do a lot of testing. I'm just,
- 22:32cause I, you know, with training educators, I
- 22:34feel like, I feel like if I'm going to go to
- 22:37a training and I know they're going to want to
- 22:39know like the best ways for lesson planning and
- 22:43all the different things that they do throughout
- 22:44their day. So I'm, I'm typically always checking
- 22:47out like Gemini or ChatGPT and testing various
- 22:51interactions with it. I'm trying new things out
- 22:54and just seeing what you can get especially when
- 22:57the updates are so frequent like you know new
- 23:00updates coming out and so it's like okay now
- 23:02now what you can you do you know um in all these
- 23:06different areas which creation less and stuff
- 23:08yeah so i feel like that's where i'm always kind
- 23:11of operating yeah yeah i can relate to that just
- 23:15like all right what are these new what are the
- 23:18what's the new the new tool or the new the new
- 23:20button like nano banana you have any thoughts
- 23:23on nano banana Well, that's funny because we
- 23:26just recorded yesterday an episode where we were
- 23:30kind of entering into the Nano Banana domain
- 23:32and creating some images of David and I on a
- 23:37boat down the Amazon River wearing raincoats
- 23:40with snakes dangling from the trees and piranhas
- 23:43in the water and everything. It's actually going
- 23:46to be the thumbnail for our Gemini videos and
- 23:48probably by the time that this one airs, those
- 23:50will have been already released. You have to
- 23:54check that out. Yeah, awesome. And so I kind
- 24:00of want to talk a little bit here about, you
- 24:02know, we we've mentioned a lot of tools and you've
- 24:04talked about the different uses that teachers
- 24:05can can apply. And one of the things that often
- 24:09comes up and is kind of a staple of introductory
- 24:13material to new school districts or whoever happens
- 24:18to be using AI, but particularly when it comes
- 24:20to schools. is the whole conversation around
- 24:23ethical AI use and privacy, especially like here
- 24:26in Minnesota, right, we have the data privacy
- 24:28law that was passed. And so we have to constantly
- 24:31be vetting tools and making sure that, you know,
- 24:34how they're being used, if they're safe for staff
- 24:36and students. What is it that you're finding
- 24:40when you talk to folks like what what concerns
- 24:44are coming up there? Like, what are you seeing
- 24:48that there may be? overwhelmed about or worried
- 24:51about when it comes to that? How do you address
- 24:54those those concerns that come up? Yeah, I mean,
- 24:58that's obviously one of the number one questions,
- 25:01right? We want to use AI responsibly and we want
- 25:04to protect our student data, our family data,
- 25:06our colleagues data. And knowing where that data
- 25:09goes is sometimes like, you know, you don't always
- 25:11know even you know, I don't always trust if it
- 25:13says, hey, we're not going to let's say um in
- 25:16chat gpt if i if i uncheck that i'm using ai
- 25:18to train the model maybe i don't know is it hopefully
- 25:23it's not right uh or like in google gemini and
- 25:27tell me if this is what you've heard as well
- 25:28but again what i've looked at is like google
- 25:31gemini has declared or shared that they're going
- 25:35to handle what you do in your google gemini chats
- 25:37the same way that is handled in what you do in
- 25:40your google drive right so it's under that same
- 25:42umbrella of of protection by google and you know
- 25:46let's just even say legally it fits and checks
- 25:49the boxes um i know a lot of districts that are
- 25:53saying hey even if even if it says this is how
- 25:57we're going to handle the data we're going to
- 25:59practice caution and when in doubt maybe we should
- 26:03leave it out like the let and if you think about
- 26:06it like the less places that data is the less
- 26:11likely it is to have or become a problem and
- 26:15so an example of that might be you know if you're
- 26:18uploading a doc or student work or really anything
- 26:22if you just take that extra step yeah it is extra
- 26:26like deleting last names or coming up with a
- 26:29way to anonymize it maybe you have a file and
- 26:32you do a save as and you delete some stuff or
- 26:35come up with a system to recall it you can still
- 26:40get this valuable information or interact with
- 26:43it in a meaningful way with AI and you're just
- 26:47having that extra layer of safeguard to say hey
- 26:50that data is not out there anywhere now and I
- 26:54do think that there are misconceptions about
- 26:57where that data goes and how it gets used. From
- 27:03the way that I understand how it works is when
- 27:05you put a prompt into chat GPT. You know, it
- 27:10goes from your account to OpenAI's computer super
- 27:14center that has all the microchips and the artificial
- 27:16neural network. That prompt moves through it.
- 27:20It's not storing the data, the prompt, the information
- 27:25that you upload. It's moving through it and it
- 27:29might be doing some adjusting and learning from
- 27:32patterns. It might learn from your information,
- 27:35but it's not storing it like you could just call
- 27:38it up and say, go to the supercenter and find
- 27:40your information in there. So that's a misconception.
- 27:46If you uncheck that it's going to learn, the
- 27:48model is going to learn from it, then apparently
- 27:50it's not supposed to learn, you know, adjust
- 27:52its dials and learn. However, an alternate risk
- 27:57is, you know, what if somebody were to hack chat
- 28:01GPT and get into my account and see all my chat
- 28:03threads and get information that way. That's
- 28:08another possibility. Low, and I'm sure we're
- 28:12all fine, but it all depends on your level of
- 28:15risk tolerance. What are your thoughts on that?
- 28:19Have you heard similar things? Very similar things,
- 28:23I think, especially with Google and Gemini is
- 28:26that yeah I've heard it is coming underneath
- 28:28their umbrella protections kind of that they
- 28:31in safeguards in terms of services and privacy
- 28:34policies that they have for their other workspace
- 28:36tools. You know which I think then kind of would
- 28:41allow some districts to say hey okay I feel much
- 28:44more safe knowing that those safeguards are in
- 28:49place of having students as young as 13 interacting
- 28:53with their tools to you know, but I but I think
- 28:57part of it though To has to be like you said
- 29:01when in doubt leave it out but that I think has
- 29:03to come from the training and giving students
- 29:06the practice with AI literacy skills and even
- 29:09digital literacy skills and digital citizenship
- 29:12practice so that they know you know, hey, I'm
- 29:16not going to put this information out there,
- 29:18even if I think and trust the source, it's just
- 29:21too valuable to me that it's under the threat
- 29:23that, you know, potentially could it be someone
- 29:26that hacks into open AIs, you know, server space
- 29:29and databases and, you know, gleans all this
- 29:33information about us. But, you know, and I completely
- 29:38agree with how you framed it though. Yeah. Yeah,
- 29:44and then and then the other question with ethics
- 29:47that I'm one of Think tank with you on this is
- 29:51like at what point do you need to give AI credit?
- 29:56for the work right like it's so gray and You
- 30:02know, I guess I'll share like my thought is if
- 30:05I am contributing a ton of my thoughts and ideas
- 30:08and they're getting formed or shaped or iterated
- 30:10or I got a seed here, but then I expanded. Do
- 30:16I need to say that, hey, generative AI helped
- 30:18me with whatever I made? Do I need to say the
- 30:21internet, I use the internet to look something
- 30:22up? You don't. But at which point do you say,
- 30:26hey, AI helped me here? So that's another ethics
- 30:28question that I get. What would you say? Did
- 30:32AI help me fill in some of the missing pieces,
- 30:35the parts that I wasn't thinking of? thought
- 30:40of these 90 % of things AI thought of 10 % that
- 30:43I could use. And not that I'm taking, you know,
- 30:46it might tell me, hey, this is how you work this
- 30:4810 % in. But I'd be just like, no, just you notifying
- 30:51me that I need to include that other 10%. And
- 30:54I go in and write about it. Then is that using
- 30:56AI? I mean, yeah, but like, what's the protocol?
- 31:00What's the what's the right way credit it? You
- 31:03know? Yeah, it's really interesting because it's
- 31:07a it's a tough thing to measure because I think
- 31:08you either like you're right away they're going
- 31:11to go towards one side of the spectrum where
- 31:14you spent a ton of time on it and use AI to develop
- 31:17bits and pieces or you might it might be more
- 31:20that situation where like oh the student used
- 31:22this to write their entire paper with no thought
- 31:24of their own those are like the two you know
- 31:27extremes but then I think the measuring that
- 31:29becomes really difficult when you have, you know,
- 31:33it's more in the middle where you have pieces
- 31:35that you worked on. Maybe something was completely
- 31:38developed by AI, but you took that and you ran
- 31:40with it over here and some other application.
- 31:43And so it gets really hazy pretty quickly, I
- 31:46think, in my opinion. Yep. Yeah, that's a good
- 31:49the parallel or the draw from someone who copied
- 31:53and pasted in basically gave a didn't do much.
- 31:56Here's a prompt. Here's my product. Here's my
- 31:58paper. Here's my X versus the other end of the
- 32:01continuum and anywhere along the lines. But I
- 32:04think we would all agree, whoever if you do the
- 32:06copy and paste, there's no one's carrying the
- 32:08cognitive load there. There's no learning. It's
- 32:10not authentic. But right. Yeah. What about a
- 32:15teacher using it to get ideas to help generate
- 32:17develop lessons and stuff? Do they need to be
- 32:20transparent with their students? Like, hey, AI
- 32:22helped me generate this learning activity, you
- 32:25know, and Do they need to be open and honest
- 32:28about that with their own kids? Yeah. Yeah. And
- 32:32my take on that is I don't know but I do know
- 32:34the more we model it and talk to kids about it
- 32:37to show them behind the scenes of how we interact
- 32:39with it, that's a good thing. So we're kind of
- 32:47dancing around some of these AI ethical and stuff
- 32:50here, but I think we're also circling around
- 32:53kind of like, to me, I think also is one of the
- 32:56most important things to always keep in mind
- 32:58when using AI for whatever purpose, to whatever
- 33:01extent, right? Is that it has to emphasize that
- 33:06human centered approach, right? How do we try
- 33:12to make sure that we're leveraging the benefits
- 33:15of using tools that AI can help us with, but
- 33:19still keep that human element central in our
- 33:24processes with it? So I came across this quote.
- 33:30that a person named Angela Daberfall and she
- 33:33said that to really push the envelope of AI,
- 33:36you have to be at the edge of your craft. The
- 33:39models meet you where you are. And the way that
- 33:42I interpret that and the way that I experienced
- 33:44that is, you know, if I am hopefully an effective
- 33:50and engaging educator, I know what good looks
- 33:54like. I am the trained professional. I know my
- 33:57students. I know the culture. I know what might
- 34:00land and what might not land. And if I can clearly
- 34:05communicate with AI what good looks like, I am
- 34:08the driver. I am still forming and shaping whatever
- 34:15it is that I'm doing. And I think that that plays
- 34:17a huge part in this human element, right? Now
- 34:20that's current, right? Maybe will AI in five
- 34:24years be better than me? I mean, probably. I
- 34:27don't know. But like right now, I just think
- 34:31that, you know, and and because you don't want
- 34:34to lose the humanness of the work. And I think
- 34:36if you outsource a lot of that and you lose.
- 34:40In my experience, authenticity. If if you don't
- 34:45have your own voice in the work, if you, you
- 34:48know, we all know what I. content looks like.
- 34:51I mean, the more you use it, you can peg it,
- 34:52right? Like you see, obviously the M dashes,
- 34:54but like there's a lot more to it. Like the structure,
- 34:58the key phrases, like if we don't keep our voice
- 35:04in it and if we don't keep our humanness in it,
- 35:08I don't know about you, but when I see AI stuff
- 35:10that's just AI, I'm not as interested in it.
- 35:12I don't care as much. I like to see what people
- 35:15really think. And I go around back and forth,
- 35:20you know, like when I use it to say, help me
- 35:23with some interview questions and I'll throw
- 35:25out some different topics and things that I think
- 35:27we should talk about, but then it helps me structure
- 35:29some of those into questions. But I always then
- 35:31go back and like, I would not ask the question
- 35:34this way, you know, but I like the direction
- 35:37that it's going. So I find the way. to input
- 35:40it into my own voice. Right. And I think, you
- 35:44know, and we touched on this a little bit off
- 35:48air here. But, you know, I kind of harken back
- 35:50a little bit to like, Ethan Mollick, and in some
- 35:53of the work that he has done within the human
- 35:55centered approach here. And, and I share this
- 35:58every time that I present on AI to about when
- 36:00is the best time to go to AI. And it's when it's
- 36:03going to be better than the best human available
- 36:05to you at that time. Right? So it should still
- 36:09be invited to those, you know, high level thought
- 36:12discussions that you're having. But you know
- 36:15what? If there's someone better that you can
- 36:17actually pick up the phone or you could get on
- 36:19a video call with and you can have that conversation
- 36:22with them like we're doing now, it's going to
- 36:25be better than anything AI can do for you. And
- 36:28it centers that human kind of and puts them back
- 36:31in control. Yeah, I love that. I love that book
- 36:34is like my top recommend of all time. Co -intelligence
- 36:37by Ethan Malik. Is that one of your top two?
- 36:40Yeah, yeah. When it comes to AI, 100%. Coming
- 36:45back to relationships, we're wired for belonging,
- 36:47we're wired for relationships, and I think people
- 36:49run the risk of going to AI for that feeling
- 36:53like it's a relationship, but it's not. Yes,
- 36:56we have a relationship in the way we interact
- 36:58with it, but as a solopreneur who's working in
- 37:02my basement with no best available human sometimes,
- 37:06I do pull up the voice piece or I bounce ideas
- 37:10around and it is a great tool for that. And I
- 37:13still need to collaborate with humans. And that's
- 37:16not what you're saying. But I'm just talking
- 37:17about how I'm being intentional around that because
- 37:21it's not a real replacement. But I can see how
- 37:24people could become that for some. So yeah, just
- 37:28as you had mentioned, when you're interacting
- 37:32with AI, it's very easy to kind of take a backseat
- 37:36to it because it does take the reins so much.
- 37:39But one thing that I think you you have emphasized
- 37:43is that AI should be an innovative thought partner,
- 37:47and we shouldn't just allow it to kind of take
- 37:50the reins and we take a backseat to it. So can
- 37:54you share an example of AI sparking real creativity
- 37:57in learning or training? So when you do engage
- 38:00either through the voice interactions or working
- 38:03with AI through you know, having to create something,
- 38:07where does the real creativity come in? Yeah,
- 38:10so one of the mindsets that I teach mindset number
- 38:13two is interact collaboratively with AI as a
- 38:17capable and fallible thought partner. Collaboration,
- 38:21it is a co laboring, it is a like, back and forth.
- 38:25And it kind of makes me think about, like, John
- 38:29had he did some research, what? What is the top
- 38:33strategy that teachers use that have the biggest
- 38:35impact on student learning outcomes? Do you know?
- 38:39Can you guess? I'm gonna guess that it's, I'm
- 38:47thinking of the wrong type, like the brain dump
- 38:50where you get rid of everything that's in their
- 38:52retrieval practice. Oh, so like getting the kids
- 38:55to carry the cognitive load in some way, whatever
- 38:57that looks like. That might be, there's not,
- 39:00that's like a general category, but like, um,
- 39:02and they're probably some of the top ones are
- 39:04in that. But the one that is the biggest impact
- 39:07on student learning outcomes is something called
- 39:08collective efficacy, which is a fancy word for
- 39:12as a team or a PLC, like we believe that our
- 39:16actions can impact, you know, in our, in our
- 39:18work together can impact and help our learners,
- 39:21but like sharing, collaborating, you know, getting
- 39:23different angles, ideas, utilizing each other's
- 39:26strengths and I just think like if we treated
- 39:29AI like, yes, it's not a person and yes, you
- 39:32have to be careful with anthropomorphism, but
- 39:35like a member of that team in that planning process
- 39:39of like, as you let's just say, we're talking
- 39:41about with this creativity and training or learning.
- 39:46What if when we were going to try to figure out
- 39:49what is the highest leverage instructional strategy
- 39:51we can use to teach this concept or an area,
- 39:53you know, a misconception that kids are struggling
- 39:55with or something like that. What if we thought
- 40:00partnered with it to come up with high engagement
- 40:05research -based learning activities that might
- 40:09be outside the box of what we always do? I don't
- 40:13know about you, but as I taught more and more,
- 40:17I sort of had a library that I always pulled
- 40:20from and maybe I could have had more variety
- 40:22or maybe there was things I didn't think of,
- 40:25but what if I... Invited AI to say, hey, I'm
- 40:29teaching about this. The kids are struggling.
- 40:32Use a research based strategy that's going to
- 40:35help me engage. Right. So maybe it's like an
- 40:36example. Identifying this or what would be one.
- 40:43Coming up with analogies or metaphors. That's
- 40:45actually one. It's a really high up there example
- 40:47of a high leverage strategy. Well, I might not
- 40:49feel creative at that moment, and I might want
- 40:52to get a bank of 10. Give me 10 ideas to AI.
- 40:56that are going to help me teach this, teach an
- 40:58analogy or a metaphor or come up with a story
- 41:00or come up with a compare contrast or something
- 41:04that is going to be high impact and help kids
- 41:08learn. And I just think like if you were to think
- 41:13creatively, co collaborating with AI to come
- 41:16up with that with things like that, I feel like
- 41:19that's just a great example of of how you can
- 41:22use it to enhance your creativity. and yet still
- 41:25kind of be in control and be at the center of
- 41:27it. So do you think there's a concern in like
- 41:31David, you know, of creative offloading? David
- 41:35and I have talked a lot about cognitive offloading.
- 41:38Is it possible to just offload too much creative
- 41:41tasks to AI? And, you know, at what point do
- 41:45we pull back the reins and say, no, this needs
- 41:47to be me again? Yeah, I mean, yeah, I mean, candidly.
- 41:52Sometimes for me after a long day, you know,
- 41:55I do, I'd like to drive a lot, but like I'll
- 41:58even like when I'm working on something, I'd
- 41:59be like, I'm too, my brain's too tired. I can't
- 42:01think right now. Just tell me what to do. Right.
- 42:03But no, I mean, whoever's carrying the cognitive
- 42:07load is doing the learning. Right. So like in
- 42:09this case, I mean, I'm yes, I'm the teacher and
- 42:12yeah, I'm not like, it's not my job to learn.
- 42:13It's my job to, you know, create learning experiences
- 42:16for kids, but like, it's a good to make that
- 42:18parallel to connection, but like, Yeah, if you're
- 42:21not applying your taste and judgment and expertise
- 42:24and you're just outsourcing it. Yeah, I mean.
- 42:28Yeah, I don't think that's creativity necessarily
- 42:30human creativity anyways. Yeah, but I still do
- 42:35feel like. AI could help you push the envelope
- 42:37of where, you know, you could take your creativity
- 42:40to the next level, just like it does with your
- 42:42thinking, you know, it can suggest different
- 42:44ways to, you know, approach a problem, maybe
- 42:48to add more empathy to a certain situation that
- 42:51you can then, you know, further express and to
- 42:54reach the needs of the different makeup of your
- 42:58audience, you know, or your Yeah, yes. Yeah,
- 43:02I agree with that. I did some hard work and thinking
- 43:06on like, what is creativity and how does AI play
- 43:08a role? And so it might be helpful to say like,
- 43:10here's how I define creativity is the process
- 43:14of combining ideas together in useful and surprising
- 43:17ways. And that's a blend of a few different definitions
- 43:20that I've seen, but like combining ideas together,
- 43:24most, most creativity comes from seeds or ideas
- 43:27that were maybe disconnected and put not put
- 43:29together. And so you, your job is to help. combine
- 43:34ideas together and useful and surprising it needs
- 43:36to catch people off guard a little bit needs
- 43:37to be interesting it needs to be maybe even solve
- 43:41a problem and uh when we one of the ai actually
- 43:47there's some some research on this like is ai
- 43:49creative and it turns out like right now humans
- 43:53are a little bit more creative than ai but ai
- 43:55is super practical because it it's a pattern
- 43:57predictor so it's getting stuff that already
- 43:59you know exists and so like if you were to pair
- 44:02your own creativity your own ideation with the
- 44:06practicalness of ai like that's a really powerful
- 44:09combination and kind of back to what we were
- 44:12talking about earlier is like um you only have
- 44:15so much energy to do the work right to do whatever
- 44:18it is that you want to do and another quote that
- 44:21i love by yo -yo ma is creativity is infinite
- 44:24energy is not an ai opens up the door to take
- 44:28away some of the energy needs to create something
- 44:31that you could still envision, drive, and steer,
- 44:34and I think that's creativity. That's really
- 44:39interesting because I kind of think to go back
- 44:41to the best available human idea, what you could
- 44:45be the best, yourself could be the best available
- 44:47human, but Like if you said, you know, you're
- 44:50running low of energy at the end of the day and
- 44:52you're like, no, please just make this decision
- 44:54for me. You know, AI is not going to get fatigued
- 44:58in the way that I get fatigued, that you get
- 45:01fatigued, that humans get fatigued, you know.
- 45:05I think one of the things to do with that is
- 45:08you can maintain some of that with things like
- 45:12frameworks that have been put out. I know that
- 45:14you've kind of championed the crafting framework.
- 45:17which I have used the craft one a lot, and I'm
- 45:21familiar with crafting after attending your session
- 45:23and things. But I think that is one thing that,
- 45:27while it may not always be necessary, I think
- 45:31it does those frameworks help someone who's not
- 45:34as familiar with AI. So say it's like take an
- 45:37elementary teacher, for example, if they haven't
- 45:40used AI and these frameworks can help them with
- 45:44putting in their own thoughts and establishing
- 45:47what those are to get them moving in the right
- 45:49direction. Otherwise, like I do, I do kind of
- 45:54see where when you're starting very basic, there
- 45:58might be a tendency to just kind of go, okay,
- 46:00well, I wrote this really, you know, this one
- 46:02line prompt, and now it gave me what I wanted.
- 46:04So that's good enough. And I'll go with that,
- 46:07you know. So I, I do like those frameworks a
- 46:11lot for being able to communicate and collaborate,
- 46:13collaborate with AI. in an effective way. I don't
- 46:19know what your thoughts are on that but that's
- 46:20kind of what came to my mind. Yeah, absolutely.
- 46:24That idea of I put in one line into AI and I
- 46:27either used it or I hear a lot, oh, it just wasn't
- 46:29any good or I didn't like it and it's like that's
- 46:32because you didn't prompt right and or you didn't
- 46:36push AI. It's not a one and done situation. It's
- 46:41an iteration. And so, yeah, of course, there
- 46:45are lots of other frameworks out there. And I
- 46:48think that the term prompt engineering has gotten
- 46:50some, I don't know if the word is flack or like,
- 46:52oh, you don't really need to know how to prompt
- 46:54engineer. And I think that the word engineering
- 46:56is the wrong word. It's really good communication.
- 47:00Maybe we already talked about this, but if you
- 47:02can essentially communicate and paint a vision
- 47:06of what you're trying to do, you're going to
- 47:10get better outputs. CRAFT in that framework is
- 47:16basically a how do you prompt? And yes, there
- 47:17are other other ones out there. What I think
- 47:20is a little different, and I think maybe would
- 47:23be good to underscore is like the embedded mindsets
- 47:26that are a part of this process. So I would describe
- 47:28the way I've at least described it is prompting
- 47:31skill sets. It's the skill set of communicating
- 47:33of, you know, kind of crafting your prompt. But
- 47:35then there's four mindsets that I've narrowed
- 47:39it down to that I think are essential for both
- 47:42our AI interactions as adults, but also for kids.
- 47:46And I'll share those. So mindset one goes with
- 47:50the craft part, but it's craft communication
- 47:53to get results that match your goals. So think
- 47:55of it like a communication. Mindset two is interact
- 47:59collaboratively with AI as a capable and fallible
- 48:02thought partner. So it's an iteration. It's a
- 48:04collaboration. Mindset three is narrow creatively
- 48:09with human expertise. There is a creativity involved
- 48:12here. It's way too easy to make white noise and
- 48:16unlimited content, but you need to be able to
- 48:19pick out the best and use what's actually gonna
- 48:21land. And then mindset four is ground critically
- 48:26and responsibly the inputs and outputs. So the
- 48:29information, the content you're putting in, we
- 48:31talked about already, and then how you're using
- 48:33it. checking it for bias, checking it for accuracy.
- 48:38And so really those four, which are kind of framed
- 48:43in or integrated in the four C's, communication,
- 48:46collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking.
- 48:50I think being able to have those paradigms in
- 48:55the way that you show up in your AI interactions
- 48:58will change the way that you interact with it.
- 49:01Right. And does there need to be some sort of
- 49:04like a pedagogical approach to instruction of
- 49:09helping people become better prompters, you know,
- 49:12like you need some practice with it. Right. And
- 49:14so that's where I think a framework kind of comes
- 49:16in and it helps. Make sure that you're hitting
- 49:19these key points. But after you've used it and
- 49:22you've become familiar with those mindset approaches
- 49:25that you need to take with it, you don't have
- 49:26to sit there with the acronym in front of you
- 49:29and in interacting with it or or like we were
- 49:32talking about earlier, you turn on the dictation
- 49:35microphone and you just start. It's viewing it
- 49:38all out into one endless stream of thought and
- 49:41then it sorts it into those different Areas for
- 49:44you which then helps your input right to get
- 49:47a better output from it But yeah, I think you
- 49:50still need to practice with it with yeah, whatever
- 49:53framework that you're that you're using as your
- 49:55approach But it's only gonna make you better
- 49:58in the long run. Yeah Yeah, that's super I resonates
- 50:03a ton. It's not rigid formula. It's not a step
- 50:05-by -step you have and there's no magic words
- 50:07It's just here are elements of good communication
- 50:11and here's how to interact with it in a human
- 50:13centered way a responsible way Yeah, I agree.
- 50:16It becomes the more you do it. It just becomes
- 50:19a part of second nature And sometimes you don't
- 50:22even care. You just get one line. That's all
- 50:24you need or best tip for prompting that I've
- 50:28seen is tell it what you want to do whatever
- 50:31that one line is and then say you've probably
- 50:33seen this too but like interview me one question
- 50:35at a time to learn more so you can give me the
- 50:38best possible answer and that will treat it like
- 50:40a conversation and then it'll get all the context
- 50:42and you'll come up with something a lot better
- 50:44yeah and i think that's good too because if it's
- 50:47a lot of times i liken it to like if if you and
- 50:51i were having a conversation and you wanted me
- 50:53to do some task the more information I have,
- 50:56the better off, the more successful I'm going
- 50:58to be, right? And I'm meeting whatever the request
- 51:03was to complete that task. Which if I have minimal
- 51:08information, just even as human beings communicating,
- 51:10it's going to be really difficult to do that,
- 51:13right? Absolutely. Absolutely. That's a great
- 51:15example. Okay. Tyler, to wrap up here, we're
- 51:20going to just hit you with a bunch of quick questions
- 51:22in our lightning round. Some AI related, some
- 51:26not, some more personal, but we're going to,
- 51:28you can give a one word answer if you want or
- 51:31one line or whatever you feel is appropriate.
- 51:34But we're going to go ahead. I'm going to start.
- 51:36The first question is dogs, cats or robots? Dogs,
- 51:41obviously dogs. If I said robots, you all wouldn't
- 51:46think I'm human probably. I mean, and it's not
- 51:48true. I would never pick that. Okay, how about
- 51:52a favorite AI tool at the moment? I'll be outside
- 51:58the box a little bit. We talked earlier about
- 52:01how much I love voice to text and I have a tool
- 52:06called Super Whisper. There are other versions
- 52:08like Whisper Sync and other ones that I have
- 52:10natively that lives on my laptop. That is a shortcut
- 52:13button that I just press like option space bar
- 52:15and anything I say anywhere on my desktop will
- 52:18turn into text. and I've been kind of like addicted
- 52:22to it because it just helps me organize my thoughts
- 52:25better. So super whisper. It's for Macs right
- 52:28now, but there are other ones for other options
- 52:30too. Okay, you probably already answered this.
- 52:33Oh, I gotta say that. Here's the one of the reasons
- 52:35it's great. It's local. It's all on my computer.
- 52:37So it's like private. So and it's really accurate.
- 52:40Keep going. Okay. Yeah, I was just gonna the
- 52:42next one. I think you already answered this one,
- 52:44but it's in our conversation, but a book you'd
- 52:47make everyone read if they're new to AI. Yeah,
- 52:50yeah, I mean, yeah, for sure Co intelligence
- 52:53second top recommended book is the AI driven
- 52:55leader really like that one on inviting AI to
- 52:59leadership tasks. All right. How about the most
- 53:04underrated human quality in the age of AI? Authenticity,
- 53:12I think authenticity, I don't think that's underrated
- 53:14necessarily, but I just as we talk about AI,
- 53:17the importance of Being authentic your voice
- 53:21your ideas like the connect the human connection
- 53:24it matters and if in and if you're not authentic
- 53:27you got nothing All right next one morning routine
- 53:30coffee tea or prompt engineering It's a tough
- 53:35choice, so they all go together, you know, so
- 53:37well coffee for sure. I'm a coffee guy I had
- 53:40an afternoon cup with you guys today, which was
- 53:42nice All right, and one more just to wrap up
- 53:46here favorite one -liner or maybe a misnomer
- 53:49about AI in education? Say, whoever is working
- 53:56hardest is the one learning the most. They're
- 54:00growing the dendrites, right? If you're passively
- 54:04involved, whether it be in learning, whether
- 54:06it be in using AI, whether it be as a teacher,
- 54:09if you are passive, you're not learning. You
- 54:11have to carry the cognitive load. You have to
- 54:14work with it, wrestle with it, productive struggle.
- 54:16And I just think that as we talk about all this
- 54:19stuff of using AI in education and worries about
- 54:23the ethics and cheating and all that, it's like
- 54:26it boils down to we're a learning institution.
- 54:29We're here for learning. And you still got to
- 54:31figure out ways for yourself and your students
- 54:33if you're using it for them to do some of that
- 54:35struggle. Awesome. I love it how you kind of
- 54:37tied that all together there with the last question.
- 54:39That was really cool. Before we let you go, Tyler,
- 54:43do you have anything that you have coming up
- 54:45that you would like to share that promote or
- 54:48just a final parting word if not? Yeah. Well,
- 54:53most of what I have been doing, I do a lot of
- 54:55private in -house things. I come to a lot of
- 54:58districts, whether it be district kickoff keynotes
- 55:02or workshops, like leadership workshops. or or
- 55:06workshops like um with staff i've done up to
- 55:09two i guess the range of what i what i do with
- 55:11people is an hour and a half or two hour kickoff
- 55:14crash course here's what ai is here's some of
- 55:17the biggest mistakes here's my favorite ways
- 55:19i use it and here's a framework that's been really
- 55:21successful in terms of people getting like a
- 55:24high value bang for your buck situation to get
- 55:26everybody grounded um all the way to like you
- 55:29know one of my favorites is like half day deep
- 55:31dives where Yeah, we do the kickoff, but then
- 55:33we workshop real work. We get in there and actually
- 55:35use the tools, maybe solve some real problems.
- 55:38Um, and then I do, you know, full days or multi
- 55:40days. And I just, you know, I'd love if this,
- 55:43if the way that I'm talking about AI is resonating
- 55:45with you and you, um, I'd love to have a conversation
- 55:48about what it might be, uh, like to come and
- 55:50work with, uh, whether it be small teams or,
- 55:52or, or entire districts. That would be, uh, that
- 55:54would be fun. And we'll definitely link your
- 55:57website in the show notes and so that if people
- 55:59want to get a hold of you We'll have that in
- 56:02the in the description how they can get get in
- 56:04touch Nice. Yeah, thank you and linkedin is the
- 56:07only platform that I'm currently using but Connect
- 56:10on linkedin as well tyler moberg and we'll be
- 56:12erg and I'd love to I'd love to have a conversation
- 56:15Awesome. Well appreciate your time today tyler.
- 56:18I think we had some awesome conversation and
- 56:21yeah best of luck for the rest of the year Thank
- 56:25you. It's fun to nerd out on this stuff with,
- 56:27with two guys who we were in the same, same boat,
- 56:29right? We both, we all have kind of similar passions
- 56:32and interests. So it's fun to have fun to sit
- 56:34and talk. Awesome. Thanks so much. Yes. Thank
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