Practical AI for Curriculum Leaders Registration Closes this week

Hi everyone,

Registrations for the Term 4 (October-December) 6-week Practical AI for Curriculum Leaders course will close at 4pm AEDT on Friday, October 16th.

The course includes an hour per week of live and recorded professional learning and discussion. With an international group of K-12 and Higher Education colleagues, the course is a space for discussing practical strategies for planning for AI in schools and universities. It's designed for all curriculum leaders including educators, assistant principals and directors, faculty leaders, and course designers.

The course is capped at 15-25 participants. The last few seats are being held at the early bird rate of $1440 AUD ex GST per individual until Friday. The course begins on October 20th at 4pm AEDT.

Beyond Chatbots

I've started a new series on the blog called Beyond Chatbots. In the past, I've written a lot about why we need to shift our mental models of AI and move away from the simplistic chatbots that were introduced in 2022.

Time and again I see policies being written around technologies that went out of date 3 or 4 years ago. I see people planning ahead for how staff and students might use "AI", but AI is being defined narrowly as a sort of super-powered search engine combined with a chatty assistant. We need to keep raising our awareness of what AI really is in order to deal with it in the future.

And there's another, perhaps even more compelling reason to move beyond chatbots. The idea of a friendly helpful assistant has become so common that it's easy for developers to place blame on their products: we didn't hack Medicare, our autonomous AI agents did it...

But there's no such thing as rogue AI: just rogue AI companies. And we need to hold them accountable.

I look forward to working with some of you in the upcoming Curriculum Leaders course. See you soon!

Cheers,

Leon

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