{"id":94681,"date":"2025-02-26T01:00:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T06:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=94681"},"modified":"2025-03-05T17:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T22:20:14","slug":"ai-resources-for-district-leaders-baule-several-other-items-re-ai-in-our-learning-ecosystems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2025\/02\/26\/ai-resources-for-district-leaders-baule-several-other-items-re-ai-in-our-learning-ecosystems\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;AI Resources for District Leaders&#8221; [Baule] + several other items re: AI in our learning ecosystems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/venturebeat.com\/games\/nvidia-helps-launch-ai-platform-for-teaching-american-sign-language\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Dean Takahashi; via Claire Zau<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Nvidia\u00a0has unveiled a new AI platform for teaching people how to use American Sign Language to help bridge communication gaps.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The Signs platform is creating a validated dataset for sign language learners and developers of ASL-based AI applications.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nNvidia, the American Society for Deaf Children and creative agency Hello Monday are helping close this gap with Signs, an interactive web platform built to support ASL learning and the development of accessible AI applications.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettingsmart.com\/2025\/02\/18\/using-gen-ai-to-design-implement-and-assess-pbl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Using Gen AI to Design, Implement, and Assess PBL<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from gettingsmart.com by David Ross<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Generative AI can significantly reduce the time and effort required in designing PBL by providing tools for research, brainstorming, and organization.<\/li>\n<li>AI tools can assist educators in managing project implementation and assessment, providing formative feedback and organizing resources efficiently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>I usually conclude blogs with some pithy words, but this time I\u2019ll turn the microphone over to Rachel Harcrow, a high school English\/Language Arts teacher at\u00a0Young Women\u2019s College Prep Charter School\u00a0of Rochester, NY: \u201cAfter years of struggling to call myself a PBL practitioner, I finally feel comfortable saying I am, thanks to the power of Gen AI,\u201d Harcrow told me. \u201cInitial ideas now turn into fully fledged high-quality project plans in minutes that I can refine, giving me the space and energy to focus on what truly matters: My students.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.techlearning.com\/news\/ai-resources-for-district-leaders\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>AI Resources for District Leaders<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from techlearning.com by Steve Baule<br \/>\n<em>Educational leaders aiming to effectively integrate generative AI into their schools should consider several key resources<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">To truly harness the transformative power of generative AI in education, district leaders must navigate a landscape rich with resources and opportunities. By delving into state and national guidelines, exploring successful case studies, utilizing innovative planning tools, and engaging in professional development, educational leaders can craft robust implementation plans. These plans can then assist in integrating AI seamlessly into their schools and elevate the learning experience to new heights.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rdworldonline.com\/anthropic-brings-extended-thinking-to-claude-which-can-solves-complex-physics-problems-with-96-5-accuracy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Anthropic brings \u2018extended thinking\u2019 to Claude, which can solves complex physics problems with 96.5% accuracy<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from rdworldonline.com by Brian Buntz<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Anthropic, a favorite frontier AI lab among many coders and genAI power users has unveiled Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first \u201chybrid reasoning\u201d AI model. It is capable of both near-instant answers and in-depth, step-by-step reasoning within a single system.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Users can toggle an extended thinking mode where the model self-reflects before answering, considerably improving performance on complex tasks like math, physics and coding. In early testing by the author, the model largely succeeded in creating lines of Python (related to unsupervised learning) that were close to 1,000 lines long that ran without error on the first or second try, including the unsupervised machine learning task shown below:<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coolcatteacher.com\/artificial-intelligence-in-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Tools. Old Complaints. Why AI Won\u2019t Kill Education or Fix it<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong> &#8212; from coolcatteacher.com by Vicki Davis; via Stephen Downes<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">AI won\u2019t kill education. But will it kill learning? The challenge isn\u2019t AI itself\u2014it\u2019s whether students can still think for themselves when the answers are always one click away.<br \/>\n&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.coolcatteacher.com\/artificial-intelligence-in-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coolcatteacher.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Learning-1024x1024.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"h-wait-before-you-go-let-me-ask-you-one-thing\" class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Wait. Before you go, let me ask you one thing.<br \/>\n<\/strong>AI has opportunities to help learning. But it also won\u2019t fix it. The real question isn\u2019t whether students\u00a0<em>can<\/em>\u00a0use AI\u2014but whether they\u2019re still learning without it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Whether the learning is happening between the ears.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And so much of what we teach in schools isn&#8217;t the answers on a test. It answers questions like \u201cWhat is my purpose in life?\u201d \u201cHow do I make friends?\u201d and \u201cHow can I help my team be stronger.\u201d Questions that aren&#8217;t asked on a test but are essential to living a good life. These questions aren&#8217;t answered between the ears but within the heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">That, my friends, is what teaching has always been about.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">The heart.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And the heart of the matter is we have new challenges, but these are old complaints. Complaints since the beginning of time and teaching. And in those days, you didn&#8217;t need kids just to be able to talk about how to build a fire, they had to make one themselves. Their lives depend on it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">And these days, we need to build another kind of fire. A fire that sparks the joy of learning. The joy of the opportunities that await us sparked by some of the most powerful tools ever invented. Kids need to not be able to just talk about making a difference, they need to know how to build a better world tomorrow. Our lives depend on it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/adigaskell.org\/2025\/02\/25\/how-debating-skills-can-help-us-in-the-fight-against-ai\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>How Debating Skills Can Help Us In The Fight Against AI<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from adigaskell.org by Adi Gaskell<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Debating skills have a range of benefits in the workplace, from helping to improve our communication to bolstering our critical thinking skills.\u00a0Research\u00a0from the University of Mississippi suggests it might also help us in the battle with AI in the workplace.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">We can often assume that debate teaches us nothing more than how to argue our point, but in order to do this, we have to understand both our own take on a subject and that of our opponent. This allows us to see both sides of any issue we happen to be debating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cEven though AI has offered a shortcut through the writing process, it actually still is important to be able to write and speak and think on your own,\u201d the researchers explain. \u201cThat\u2019s what the focus of this research is: how debate engenders those aspects of being able to write and speak and study and research on your own.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia helps launch AI platform for teaching American Sign Language &#8212; from venturebeat.com by Dean Takahashi; via Claire Zau Nvidia\u00a0has unveiled a new AI platform for teaching people how to use American Sign Language to help bridge communication gaps. 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