As we begin to think about life on the other side of a global pandemic, we realize that everything in life is forever changed. We are all in the midst of creating new routines in all aspects of our lives, from how we shop, to how we socialize, to how we travel, and spend our free time. We are contemplating new ways to think about how we integrate work and home, and even how we educate our children. We’ve learned… (1) our children cannot and should not be measured on high-stakes tests alone; ...
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Sure, some predictions about AI are just hype – but others suggest that everything we know is about to fundamentally change. Creative technologist Bilawal Sidhu talks with the world’s leading experts, artists, journalists, and more to explore the thrilling, sometimes terrifying, future ahead.
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How to make yourself more human in an automated world (from How to Be a Better Human)
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Kevin Roose is a tech journalist who writes about the intersection of tech, business, and culture. In today’s episode from How to Be a Better Human, another podcast in the TED Audio Collective, he talks about the shift of technology’s role in our lives and how we can set up boundaries with our devices to regain our autonomy. He also shares why he’s…
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Why AI needs a "nutrition label" (from TED Talks Daily)
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What do sandwiches have to do with AI? Data reformist Kasia Chmielinski helps us think about artificial intelligence with a useful food metaphor — and breaks down why AI systems should have "nutrition labels" to ensure the development of fairer, more transparent algorithms. This is an episode of TED Talks Daily. Every weekday, TED Talks Daily bring…
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will.i.am on AI – and the future of creativity (from ReThinking with Adam Grant)
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You may know will.i.am as the 7-time Grammy-award winning singer, songwriter, producer, and frontman of The Black Eyed Peas. But his interests beyond music have also taken him down a surprising and creative path – from serving as the director of creative innovation at Intel, to becoming the first artist to stream a song from the surface of Mars, to…
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Will AI replace me? with AJ. Jacobs (from Fixable)
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How will AI change the way you work? A.J. Jacobs is a journalist and author who has written books like "The Year of Living Biblically", "The Puzzler", and "Thanks a Thousand." And although he's built a career off of his creative ideas, the rise of ChatGPT and other generative AI has made him concerned there will still be a place for his work as tec…
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The AI-powered tools supercharging your imagination
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The TED AI Show is going on a short summer break! In the meantime, we're sharing a special episode of TED Tech, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective that we think you'll love. Listen every Friday as TED speakers explore the way tech shapes how we think about society, science, design, business, and more. How is AI changing the nature of hum…
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Are we mistaking the remarkable skills of tools like ChatGPT with genuine intelligence? AI skeptic Gary Marcus pulls no punches when he warns that believing in the hype of generative AI models might be distracting us from building the type of AI future we actually want. Bilawal and Gary delve into the nuanced perspectives beyond the AI hype cycle, …
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Will AI “eat software” — and what’ll happen to coders? w/ GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke
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AI is reshaping software development so much that someday soon, anyone will be able to build an app or a game. What does that mean for programming now? Bilawal and Thomas Dohmke, CEO of GitHub, explore the soaring possibilities and discuss the lingering concerns as “AI eats software.” Whether you are a coder or a tech enthusiast, think AI will supe…
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AI therapy is here. What does it mean for you? w/ Dr. Alison Darcy and Brian Chandler
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We may think the complexities of the human mind can only be understood by other humans. Yet research on chatbots and psychology suggests non-human bots can actually help improve mental health. Bilawal talks with Dr. Alison Darcy, the founder of mental health app Woebot, and Brian Chandler, an app user, to learn what chatbots reveal about our inner …
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Your next best friend may be 100% AI w/ Purnendu Mukherjee
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Non Player Characters --NPCs for short-- have always been a huge part of what makes video games engaging, from Cortana in Halo to Navi in The Legend of Zelda. But interactions with NPCs were always limited to a pre-written script. Until now. Purnendu Mukherjee is the CEO of Convai, a platform that enables developers to create NPCs with human-like c…
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Why we can't fix bias with more AI w/ Patrick Lin
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Technology is supposed to make our lives better – but who gets to decide how that improvement unfolds, and what values it upholds? Tech ethicist Patrick Lin and Bilawal dig into the hidden -- and not so hidden -- biases in AI. From historically inaccurate images to life-and-death decisions in hospitals, human biases reveal how AI mirrors our own fl…
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AI may take jobs – but not our creativity w/ artist Claire Silver
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Like many new, exciting artistic technologies before it, the development of AI is begging us to ask: what counts as art? In a provocative conversation, Claire Silver, an anonymous AI collaborative artist, sits down with Bilawal to talk about how AI has revolutionized her own mixed media practice, and why she thinks that AI may be an inextricable pa…
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What really went down at OpenAI and the future of regulation w/ Helen Toner
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If there’s one AI company that’s made a splash in mainstream vernacular, it’s OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT. Former board member and AI policy expert Helen Toner joins Bilawal to discuss the existing knowledge gaps and conflicting interests between those who are in charge of making the latest technology – and those who create our policies at t…
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Is AI destroying our sense of reality? with Sam Gregory
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Could you spot a deepfake? We’re entering a new world where generative AI is challenging our sense of what’s real and what’s fiction. In our first episode, Bilawal and Sam Gregory, a human rights activist and technologist, discuss how to protect our sense of reality.By TED
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AI is changing every aspect of life – work, relationships, culture, art. But how will we navigate this new world? Host Bilawal Sidhu chats with the world’s leading experts, artists, journalists, and beyond, to guide you through the promises and perils of this powerful ever-evolving technology.By TED
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In this episode, Jill and Grant wrap up season 3 with a synthesis of the paradigm shifts they've talked about that help us prepare to cultivate curiosity and wonder.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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Time seems to be the variable that we often hear about. I could do this is if I only had the time. I don’t have enough time. I would love to do that but wow, the time. Time, Time, Time. We may not have any control over how much time we have but we have almost total control over how we use it. Our paradigm shifts this season all take time. It takes …
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This paradigm shift is one that we often shy away from because of the time it takes for students to move through the process at a pace adults want. When students have a powerful, authentic experience vs simply and only thinking about the experience, they approach curiosity and wonder differently.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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Using Mystery, Suspense, and Exploration to Minimize Rote Learning
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Curiosity and wonder are filled with mystery, suspense, and exploration. We cannot have a vibrant classroom filled with curiosity and wonder without these ingredients. Mystery always begins with a question. Suspense allows us to build the excitement before reaching the climax, and exploration continues as more and more questions are asked and answe…
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It's Bigger than Just Eliciting a Response
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Today, we explore another in our series of paradigm shifts that provide the foundation for our work to cultivate curiosity and wonder. Fewer is better: Using deeper questions to provoke thinking not just elicit responses Shift – Get the questions to come from the student; they ask what they really want to know more about . . . The Shift Avoid rapid…
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Grant and I are very excited to welcome you to this Abundantly Charged episode, Who’s the Star: When to Move off the Stage to Facilitate. This particular paradigm shift is one that has immediate effects in shifting the culture in our classrooms as it creates a student-centered approach where curiosity, defined as the strong desire to explore someth…
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Pace - We Don't Have to Be in the Same Place at the Same Time
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In this episode Jill and Grant explore the first in our series of paradigm shifts that provide the foundation for our work to cultivate curiosity and wonder. Let's start with how we think about time, specifically the expectation that a group of students all learn at the same pace and that we can bring them along all together. Wrong! We don't all ha…
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We simply cannot return to those pre-pandemic ways of educating our children that if we are honest with ourselves were just not working. We are called to change. It is our duty to change. But what we know about change is that it is hard. Paradigm shifts are hard not just for an individual, but for an entire system and institution. In this episode, …
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What is Vibrant Learning? It's the combination of academic content plus the appropriate level of depth of knowledge combined with social and emotional learning. It's the foundation needed to cultivate curiosity and wonder.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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In this episode Jill and Grant talk about common instructional practices which seem to be in opposition to cultivating curiosity and wonder.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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In Wondering, We Investigate the Object of Our Curiosity
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In this episode, Jill and Grant explore their concept of wonder as the act of investigating that for which we have curiosity, or a desire to know.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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In this episode, Jill and Grant explore the many different aspects of curiosity as a strong desire to explore something that is interesting, challenging, and relevant to your life.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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In this episode, Jill and Grant talk about what it means to facilitate learning by supporting students as investigators of their thinking.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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Jill and Grant talk about the conflict between looking at all things education through a deficit model and cultivating curiosity and wonder for each of our children in our classrooms.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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Cultivating Curiosity and Wonder in Our Classrooms
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This episode introduces the concepts of curiosity and wonder as our teaching and learning goals.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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This episode concludes season 1 of Abundantly Charged. How do we replenish when our batter is drained?By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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Jill and Grant talk to Jeanne Shannon about the ins and outs of being a relationship builder.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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In Pursuit of Relationships that are Authentic and Genuine
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Jill and Grant explore what it means to be a relationship builder.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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Jill and Grant welcome special guest, Katherin Mohney, to talk about self-advocacy and balance.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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In this episode, Jill and I are going to talk about balance. What is it? What is it not? Why does it matter? And why is it so darn difficult for all of us. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” - Lillian DicksonBy Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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In this episode we use our skills in self-awareness and self-management to explore self advocacy. Self-advocacy is the ability to communicate your needs. People who self-advocate are more likely to thrive in school, work, and life. It creates independence and empowers people to find solutions rather than being stuffed in a closet, wallowing in the …
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A conversation with principal and district leader Scott Martin.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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Jill and Grant talk about the ins and outs of self-management.By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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What is self-awareness, why do we need it and how can we use it to be abundantly charged?By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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What Does it Mean to be Abundantly Charged?
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In this pilot episode, Grant and Jill discuss what it means for teachers and leaders to be abundantly charged,By Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis
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