Ed3 Podcast

In this week of Ed3: Unplugged, Serj Hunt and Scott Meyer discuss the role of AI in education and how it can help teachers become builders.

We explore the four identities of a teacher, beginning with a reporter who regurgitates information and ending with a role model who competes with AI-powered chatbots that can teach students on their own.

What skills are needed for the future?

In this Ed3: Unplugged, Serj Hunt argues it is a moving target, but key skills like adaptability and agency will be needed regardless of technological change.

Personalized AI tutors can scale one-to-one tutoring. This new technology could boomerang education back to the Aristotelian model, not seen since the Industrial Age of education.

In this conversation, I sit down with the founders of Bloom: https://bloombot.ai/ Bloom is an AI reading companion created by Courtland Leer, Thomas Howell, and Vince Trost. They are working to build the future of adaptive learning and education.

We discuss the challenges associated with scaling one-to-one tutoring and the history of education, where the Aristotelian tutoring model was used for thousands of years before the industrial model of education was introduced. The team sees generative AI as a way to return to an individualized model of education that can offer quality instruction as a supplement to the current educational system. They believe that generative AI will be a radical shift enabling high-quality, personalized education for all, regardless of location or economic status.

The team also discusses the importance of making education more enjoyable and social, with their tool - Bloom - being built around Discord, a social platform with roots in gaming. They believe the tool's ability to relate to the student's interests outside the classroom will make it more personable and enjoyable.

Lastly, the team discusses the challenge of ensuring equal access to education. Still, they believe that generative AI and the drop in cost will grow the addressable market for tutoring, making it more affordable for all students.

Ed3: Gathering curates live events exploring the future of learning.

In this episode, we bring the Ed 3.0 discussion from March 23rd, 2023. The guests discuss how schools can implement AI into their curriculum mindfully and ethically. They emphasize the importance of considering AI's practical and ethical implications in education, including the risk of diminishing human capacity and offloading critical thinking to machines. The guests also raise the crucial issue of involving teachers in developing policies and best practices surrounding AI in education.

Host Greg Nadeau interviews guests Tara Carrozza, Lori Mazor, Beth Havinga, and Ted Nadeau, who provide unique perspectives. Carrozza and Mazor discuss the benefits and benefits and challenges of incorporating AI in the classroom. Havinga and Nadeau share their insights on AI regulation and building trust in AI tools.

This episode highlights the need for careful consideration and collaboration as AI plays an increasingly prominent role in education. The guests stress the importance of involving all stakeholders in developing ethical and effective AI practices in education, including teachers, policymakers, and AI developers.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ed3gg/

How do you design personalized learning experiences that are dynamic and adaptive? Serj Hunt and Scott Meyer dive into that and other big questions facing educators in the Age of Intelligence.

While AI provides new potential, a challenge is integration. How do schools innovate and integrate these tools?

In this podcast, Scott Meyer and Serj Hunt discuss the need for culture design in education to enable schools to adopt new technologies such as AI.

The conversation highlights the importance of public collaboration, sharing, and learning to create a rich and diverse ecosystem of innovative practices. Innovation often comes from the fringe, and the podcast shares who we should be watching and learning from so we know how to use and integrate new technologies and practices.

Jump in to collaborate, learn in public, and build helps build a culture of innovation in education! Thanks for tuning in!

Ed3 is going unplugged!

With the fast pace of change, we're excited to start weekly unscripted conversations between Serj Hunt and Scott Meyer on the latest educational changes. This will bring a conversational approach to the emerging trends we are seeing in education.

In this episode, we explore the explosion of artificial intelligence (AI) tools announced this week - like GPT-4 and Midjourney 5 - and their impact on education. We focus on how AI can help humanize the learning experience. Imagine a world where teachers can focus on the human parts of their job and move away from the "bookish" work we associate with instructors.

The big takeaway: robots can make us more human.

We hit on big ideas like how AI can personalize education to meet the unique needs of each student and how AI can provide the content so teachers provide the  emotional connections and support.

Colin Reynolds is a former teacher now working to build accessible learner records. In his position at the Education Design Lab, he is leading a collaborative project with the US Chamber of Commerce to accelerate the adoption of learner employment records using AI.

In this conversation, we remember our early days in radio in the Upper Midwest before diving into how digital records can actually improve learning, help teachers, and unlock opportunities. Reynolds is a deep thinker who does a great job of connecting theoretical digital transformation to real world change. 

Teachers and curriculum designers spend a significant amount of time understanding a concept. Then, they spend more time creating curricula, projects, and exercises based on that material.

What if that work could be done in minutes? What if learners could immediately have flashcards to review key concepts and terms?

Nolej AI makes this possible.

The airdropped university creates competition for existing education institutions by using public information from on-chain credentials. 

Greg Nadeau is the Mr. Rogers of the Ed 3.0 community, welcoming new members and diverse stakeholders working to build the future of an interoperable education credential.

In this conversation we discuss the Academic Genome Project. This project looks to build future of the credential where individual Learner Employment Records - or LERs - enables mobility and unlocks opportunity across geography, industry, and skills. Nadeau walks through how to crosswalk skills to new domains, how to ensure quality and trust, and why this work matters for employers and learners.

Educators often talk about pathways - an attempt to map all the concepts a student should learn, all the experiences teachers hope they will have.

The guest on this episode of the Ed3 Podcast reimagines this concept in a way that fits our data-filled world.

Bodo Hoenen is building the Proof of Learning Protocol (PoLP), a technology that helps students discover ideas, validate learning, and unlock opportunity. Students identify what they want to do and the PoLP unlocks a unique path to help them learn what is needed based on their intrinsic motivation. Other technologies can build on top of his protocol to create even greater impact.

The Internet personalized the world we live in. Education is going through the same evolution with Ed3.

In this episode, learn about this evolution and how you can get involved. 

The most important voice for digital equity that you don't know is Beth Havinga.

She stands at the center of policy, capacity building and AI, working to build solutions that promote digital equity now and 10+ years down the road.

As she notes, there are three levels of digital equity challenges:

Access - In a digital world, students need digital access. As COVID showed, this was far more difficult than expected.

Environment - Even with access, students need a safe space for learning and studying. They may be sharing devices, not have a family member who can help, or socio-economic challenges that make learning difficult.

Bias - Individual technology, such as AI, may be biased or culturally inappropriate for certain learners. Building this technology with digital equity in mind is essential.

With these concepts in mind, we discussed:

• The importance, and challenge, of digital equity in a digitized world
• Examples of digital equity policies around the world
• The importance of teacher training and digital literacy
• The future of AI in education
• How individuals can promote digital equity within their areas of expertise

Enjoy this dynamic conversation about an issue facing educators globally.

DAOs could be the future of educational institutions, or at least a new way to scale their reach and depth. In this episode, learn how DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations, can decentralize and personalize learning. We will focus on how DAOs can be hubs for learning, networking, socializing, and yes, even dating.

Regenerative Education solves global challenges with decentralized coordination. Using The One Room Schoolhouse Model, communities see immediate benefit.

DAOs enable permissionless education where teachers become students and students become teachers. Manuel Maccou is working to unlock this innovation. 

As an educational contributor in Bankless DAO, Maccou works to create a welcoming environment where all learners are welcome. Now he is building Mass Effect - a knowledge exchange protocol that helps the smartest minds share information and perspectives. This permissionless education aims to provide the next step after traditional education, promoting lifelong learning.

Education is key to human flourishing. Web3 enables students to own their education, called ed3 - improving access, affordability, accreditation.

The future of education will require a re-imagination of what credentials are and how they unlock opportunity.

The impact of Web3 comes when we move from bits to atoms - from digital world building to physical world changing.

Web3 has the potential to build a better internet and better human systems. Industries like education can be reimagined in an equitable and impactful way. But, there is a window of time to create these massive changes. If someone’s only exposure to web3 is a scam or negative news headlines, they’ll be less likely to consider these new possibilities. If we wait too long or move too slow, the opportunity for reinvention may pass.

Now is the key moment to bring the ethos, technology and ambition of web3 to the real world to solve human problems.

In short: it’s time for web3 to equitably build.

Learn more about the opportunity and who is working on building with bits and atoms in this episode - our first official episode of the Ed3 podcast. 

Welcome!

This is the trailer for the forthcoming Ed3 Podcast where we will explore how to scale education using web3.