Dominique, thank you for this. The pattern recognition is the part I keep returning to; that we keep blaming the medium when the question has always been about how we engage with it. You have named something that needed naming.
I want to sit with your closing question, because I think it is the deepest part of the piece: why do we so often find ourselves as passengers in our own activities?
From inside a classroom, I see one more reason worth adding. We end up as passengers because no one ever showed us what it looks like to drive. A child raised in a house where adults outsource their attention, their curiosity, their thinking; to the screen, the algorithm, now the chatbot learns by watching that the passenger seat is normal. The driver's seat is something they have to be invited into, by an adult who is willing to model it first.
That is the part of education AI cannot replace and also the part it most directly threatens, not because the technology is corrosive, but because if the adults in the room are passengers, the children will be too.
Yes, I love that additional framing from an educational perspective. We do need adults to not only model the right "driving" behavior, but also encourage and guide it in our kids. Both in the classroom and at home.
Dominique, thank you for this. The pattern recognition is the part I keep returning to; that we keep blaming the medium when the question has always been about how we engage with it. You have named something that needed naming.
I want to sit with your closing question, because I think it is the deepest part of the piece: why do we so often find ourselves as passengers in our own activities?
From inside a classroom, I see one more reason worth adding. We end up as passengers because no one ever showed us what it looks like to drive. A child raised in a house where adults outsource their attention, their curiosity, their thinking; to the screen, the algorithm, now the chatbot learns by watching that the passenger seat is normal. The driver's seat is something they have to be invited into, by an adult who is willing to model it first.
That is the part of education AI cannot replace and also the part it most directly threatens, not because the technology is corrosive, but because if the adults in the room are passengers, the children will be too.
Grateful, as always, for the way you think.
Yes, I love that additional framing from an educational perspective. We do need adults to not only model the right "driving" behavior, but also encourage and guide it in our kids. Both in the classroom and at home.
Not a gamer?!!? Duke Nuk'em ring a bell?
Ah ah - that was 5 lifetimes ago ;-)