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Abundantly Charged

Dr. Grant A. Chandler & Jill E. Lewis

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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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