7-Minute AI

Colleagues and fellow educators have noticed how every sentence uttered about education these days includes a noun, a verb, and AI. Grand reports on the awesome impact or failure of AI in schools are everywhere while merchants of doom testify before the United States Senate that computers in education are like antrax. How is it possible that this embryonic technology has not only captured the public’s imagination and allegedly dominated schooling overnight?

I have a “theory.”

This past week, I spoke at the FETC Conference for about the thirtieth time. The conference program was chock full of AI sessions. I myself led one, on learning by programming with AI as my apprentice. However, it was in in the Exhibit Hall that I discovered how “everyone is doing AI,” when I stumbled upon a presentation of “7-Minute AI”

Now, your school can announce to the world that it has AI covered in just seven minutes! This innovation saves us from investing the time required for Hour of Code by 88%!

What will you do with the extra 63 minutes?

If 7-Minute AI sounds familiar, watch the following (NSFW) clip from There’s Something About Mary.

Schools interested in projecting an illusion of modernity might find great comfort in 7-Minute AI or the infographics, worksheets, and explainers proliferating social media. However, educating children is not a late night infomercial.

Teaching about AI is different from learning with artificial intelligence. Students deserve more than AI Appreciation lessons.

Quality Learning Takes Time!

If you are interested in authentic, deep, creative, modern learning than 7-Minute AI is inadequate.