{"id":95971,"date":"2025-07-01T14:09:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=95971"},"modified":"2025-07-01T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T18:19:50","slug":"unlocking-six-weeks-a-year-with-ai-other-items-re-ai-in-our-learning-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/07\/01\/unlocking-six-weeks-a-year-with-ai-other-items-re-ai-in-our-learning-ecosystems\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Unlocking six weeks a year with AI&#8221; + other items re: AI in our learning ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rdene915.com\/2025\/06\/27\/transform-public-speaking-with-yoodli-your-ai-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Transform Public Speaking with Yoodli: Your AI Coach<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from rdene915.com by Paula Johnson<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yoodli is an AI tool designed to help users improve their public speaking skills. It analyzes your speech in real-time or after a recording and gives you feedback on things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Filler words (\u201cum,\u201d \u201clike,\u201d \u201cyou know\u201d)<\/li>\n<li>Pacing (Are you sprinting or sedating your audience?)<\/li>\n<li>Word choice and sentence complexity<\/li>\n<li>Eye contact and body language (with video)<\/li>\n<li>And yes, even your \u201cuhhh\u201d to actual word ratio<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Yoodli gives you a transcript and a confidence score, plus suggestions that range from helpful to brutally honest. It\u2019s basically Simon Cowell with AI ethics and a smiley face interface.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theneuron.ai\/explainer-articles\/wtf-is-going-on-with-ai-and-education\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>[What&#8217;s] going on with AI and education?<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from theneuron.ai by Grant Harvey<br \/>\n<em>With students and teachers alike using AI, schools are facing an &#8220;assessment crisis&#8221; where the line between tool and cheating has blurred, forcing a shift away from a broken knowledge economy toward a new focus on building human judgment through strategic struggle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>What to do about it:\u00a0<\/strong>The future belongs to the &#8220;judgment economy,&#8221; where knowledge is commoditized but taste, agency, and learning velocity become the new human moats. Use the &#8220;Struggle-First&#8221; principle: wrestle with problems for 20-30 minutes before turning to AI, then use AI as a sparring partner (not a ghostwriter) to deepen understanding. The goal isn&#8217;t to avoid AI, but to strategically choose when to embrace &#8220;desirable difficulties&#8221; that build genuine expertise versus when to leverage AI for efficiency.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<strong>The\u00a0Alpha-School Program\u00a0in brief:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li>Students complete core academics in just 2 hours using AI tutors, freeing up 4+ hours for life skills, passion projects, and real-world experiences.<\/li>\n<li>The school claims students learn at least 2x faster than their peers in traditional school.<\/li>\n<li>The top 20% of students show 6.5x growth. Classes score in the top 1-2% nationally across the board.<\/li>\n<li>Claims are based on NWEA&#8217;s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments&#8230; with data only available to the school. Hmm&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Austen Allred\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Austen\/status\/1930865224292168167\"><strong>shared a story<\/strong><\/a><strong>\u00a0about the school, which put it on our radar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/analytics\/659819\/k-12-teacher-research.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Featured Report:\u00a0 Teaching for Tomorrow: Unlocking Six Weeks a Year With AI<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8212; from gallup.com<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallup.com\/analytics\/659819\/k-12-teacher-research.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/imagekit.gallup.com\/fusion\/ANALYTICSV9CMS\/f1ca2bca-ffbe-4a25-a47f-31cac0f4ffcf.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"75%\" height=\"75%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><br \/>\nIn the latest installment of Gallup and the Walton Family Foundation\u2019s research on education, K-12 teachers reveal how AI tools are transforming their workloads, instructional quality and classroom optimism. The report finds that 60% of teachers used an AI tool during the 2024\u201325 school year. <span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Weekly AI users report reclaiming nearly six hours per week \u2014 equivalent to six weeks per year \u2014 which they reinvest in more personalized instruction, deeper student feedback and better parent communication.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; padding-left: 40px;\">Despite this emerging \u201cAI dividend,\u201d adoption is uneven: 40% of teachers aren\u2019t using AI at all, and only 19% report their school has a formal AI policy. Teachers with access to policies and support save significantly more time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Educators also say AI improves their work. Most report higher-quality lesson plans, assessments and student feedback. And teachers who regularly use AI are more optimistic about its benefits for student engagement and accessibility \u2014 mirroring themes from the\u00a0<em>Voices of Gen Z: How American Youth View and Use Artificial Intelligence<\/em>\u00a0report, which found students hesitant but curious about AI\u2019s classroom role. As AI tools grow more embedded in education, both teachers and students will need the training and support to use them effectively.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>Also see:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"elementor-headline-plain-text elementor-headline-text-wrapper\"><span class=\"elementor-headline-plain-text elementor-headline-text-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/2hourlearning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>2-Hour Learning<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>What if children could\u00a0<span class=\"elementor-headline-dynamic-wrapper elementor-headline-text-wrapper\"><span class=\"elementor-headline-dynamic-text elementor-headline-text-active\">crush academics in 2 hours, 2x faster?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li>What if children could get back their most valuable resource, which is time?<\/li>\n<li>What if children could pursue the things they want during their afternoons and develop life skills?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techlearning.com\/how-to\/amira-learning-teaching-with-the-ai-powered-reading-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Amira Learning: Teaching With The AI-Powered Reading Tool<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techlearning.com by Erik Ofgang<br \/>\n<em>Amira Learning is a research-backed AI reading tutor that incorporates the science of reading into its features.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>What Is Amira Learning?<\/strong><br \/>\nAmira Learning\u2019s system is built upon research led by Jack Mostow, a professor at Carnegie Mellon who helped pioneer AI literacy education. Amira uses Claude AI to power its AI features, but these features are different than many other AI tools on the market. Instead of focusing on chat and generative response, Amira\u2019s key feature is its advanced speech recognition and natural language processing capabilities, which allow the app to \u201chear\u201d when a student is struggling and tailor suggestions to that student\u2019s particular mistakes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Though it\u2019s not meant to replace a teacher, Amira provides real-time feedback and also helps teachers pinpoint where a student is struggling. For these reasons, Amira Learning is a favorite of education scientists and advocates for science of reading-based literacy instruction. The tool currently is used by more than 4 million students worldwide and across the U.S.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Transform Public Speaking with Yoodli: Your AI Coach &#8212; from rdene915.com by Paula Johnson Yoodli is an AI tool designed to help users improve their public speaking skills. It analyzes your speech in real-time or after a recording and gives you feedback on things like: Filler words (\u201cum,\u201d \u201clike,\u201d \u201cyou know\u201d) Pacing (Are you sprinting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,356,433,343,347,32,210,141,533,391,419,180,119,482,124,46,74,102,17,7,838,510,173,69,309,20,89,195,367],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-communications","category-education","category-education-reform","category-education-technology","category-emerging-technologies","category-engagement-engaging-students","category-experimentation","category-human-computer-interaction-hci","category-ideas-teaching","category-innovation","category-instructional-design","category-intelligent-systems","category-intelligent-tutoring","category-k-12-related","category-leadership","category-learning","category-learning-agents","category-learning-ecosystem","category-learning-experience-design","category-learning-from-the-living-class-room","category-pedagogy","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-platforms","category-strategy","category-teachers","category-tools","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95971"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95989,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95971\/revisions\/95989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}