lol yeah I sometimes wonder if the Severance team knows of the ed theorist…

Which is why I'd also encourage anyone going down the path of creating a curriculum or syllabus for your own learning, that you find others to do it along with you. The best kinds of knowledge emerges from the co-constitution of meaning.

Other than admin saying "AI is good because it'll make you more efficient, use it"

In what way? In my experience here in PA districts and teachers are either dealing with blanket AI bans or forced integration through LMS and other "required" resources and programs. There is very little conversation about how to implement AI positively.

What would education look like if we paid a little closer attention to that? Attuned ourselves to the experience of students in a way that focuses on their becoming human more than their quantified knowledge and skills?

The basics: we're attempting to recover the word "experience." Experiential education is more than field trips, projects, and "hands on learning." All education is already experiential, an ontological ground of students forming relationships with themselves and the world around them.

I remain hopeful though that the distinctly human-ness of education will keep education rooted in humanity. I can't see a world where teachers are replaced, but more pressure will be placed on the "hidden" roles of teachers that only a human can perform (which comes with its own cost).

Honestly the trouble I come across in my research and conversations is how many districts and admin are straight up requiring teachers to implement AI tools, they don't have much of a choice. That puts them in a tough spot.

Certainly not in the schools and education spheres I'm a part of. I wrote some thoughts about it (excuse the shameless plug) but to me one possible answer, when resistance is not possible, is to treat it like a core resource, as a textbook - one small piece in a larger mode of learning.

Unfortunately as long as education is seen as something to be quantified, measured, and made efficient (as it is here in the US), all policies will point to AI integration. I do think there's a way to integrate it positively, but I'm not sure it's a conversation people are really having.

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As Husserl might tell us, let's get back to the thing itself - let's really think about it what it means to be a student, to ontologically evolve, to form identity, and to make meaning of our world... how to experience and become experienced.