Andrew - Since I quote you in my own Substack article on the same subject, I thought you'd appreciate a forward-thinking approach to the problem of (perceived) obsolescence. I try to make the case that our "product" in higher education is, essentially, the academic competencies that make a graduate useful aside from their subject matter knowledge.
A new set of AI-oriented competencies would elevate the value of an academic experience irrespective of deep access to knowledge on one's phone. You still need to operate AI as an agent, not a client. I offer a starting point.
Thanks Steve -- this is a great post! I may have read it when it first came out as I remember reading about the conductor as second order scholar metaphor -- and really like it. These are conversations we need to be having!
I'm playing with this in an MBA course I am subject coordinator and lecturer on. Cultivate conditions for symmathesy. Creation relational capital. Orient towards emergence and playfulness. Use group work, applied learning projects and a challenged based learning process. It's messy but beautiful. It also breaks the uni bureaucracy in many ways... but hey, we do have to break the patterns that no longer serve don't we?
More broadly we are also just institutionally gaslighting younger generations. It's gotta stop.
Andrew - Since I quote you in my own Substack article on the same subject, I thought you'd appreciate a forward-thinking approach to the problem of (perceived) obsolescence. I try to make the case that our "product" in higher education is, essentially, the academic competencies that make a graduate useful aside from their subject matter knowledge.
A new set of AI-oriented competencies would elevate the value of an academic experience irrespective of deep access to knowledge on one's phone. You still need to operate AI as an agent, not a client. I offer a starting point.
https://substack.com/home/post/p-158517079
Thanks Steve -- this is a great post! I may have read it when it first came out as I remember reading about the conductor as second order scholar metaphor -- and really like it. These are conversations we need to be having!
I'm playing with this in an MBA course I am subject coordinator and lecturer on. Cultivate conditions for symmathesy. Creation relational capital. Orient towards emergence and playfulness. Use group work, applied learning projects and a challenged based learning process. It's messy but beautiful. It also breaks the uni bureaucracy in many ways... but hey, we do have to break the patterns that no longer serve don't we?
More broadly we are also just institutionally gaslighting younger generations. It's gotta stop.
Thanks Matthew!