Is ChatGPT a Threat in the Classroom, Or a Tool to Embrace?
MARCH 2023 PODCAST -- This month’s podcast features Michael B. Horn, a writer, and speaker who advocates for the transformation of education through innovation to improve the learning and the lives of all students. In this podcast, Michael and JFYNetWorks executive director Gary Kaplan discuss how ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in general will impact not only our schools but our entire society.
More about Michael B. Horn
An author, speaker, blogger, and consultant, Michael Horn has been at the forefront of education innovation and blended learning since his pioneering work at Harvard Business School with the legendary Clayton Christensen. He was a co-founder in 2007 of the Innosight Institute (now the Christensen Institute), a non-profit think tank that focuses on using disruptive innovation to improve education and other industries. In addition to writing or collaborating on six books since the 2008 classic Disrupting Class, Michael is a frequent speaker on education innovation at conferences around the world.
PODCAST HIGHLIGHTS:’We're no longer homosapiens. We’re now homotechnicians.’ [Timestamp: 03:35]
’ChatGPT becomes this incredible tool to uplevel the products or capabilities that we as individuals ultimately use. In other words, the analogy made is that ChatGPT is to English what the calculator is to math.’ [Timestamp: 09:30]
’…technology, I think remains a wonderful tool and it is a terrible master.’ [Timestamp 36:49]
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MORE ABOUT JFYNetWorks
Today, JFYNetWorks addresses the college readiness disconnect by providing focused blended, hybrid and remote learning programs in high school to help students build the academic skills they need to enter college or technical training earning academic credit. The JFYNetWorks blended program model — infusing specialized online content into the regular curriculum — also facilitates scalability, as the low cost of the online platform can easily be expanded to entire schools.
To learn more visit JFYNet.org
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