Participate and share: Interactive session 
Many educators and leaders are using AI to replace their tasks and automate efficiency. This is a good place to start but the potential of AI is so much more. AI can help humans grow their competencies and skills. AI can be used as a cognitive thought partner for complex decision making. Join us to learn how you can leverage AI to be the cognitive friend you’ve always wanted. Use this practice to enhance your abilities as an education leader, make difficult decisions, and grow as a professional.
Participants will:
-identify what AI does well compared to humans and vice versa
-ideate their own competency growth plan
-understand how AI can be a cognitive thought partner
-use this practice to enhance their abilities as a professional
-differentiate between low level and high level AI tasks and use cases
Content & Activities:
-Foundations: What is AI, ML, Deep Learning?
-AI compared to Bloom's Taxonomy - what it can and cannot do well
-AI's abilities as a thinker and cognitive partner
-High level AI tasks and low level AI tasks
-Transforming practice using AI
-Competency growth plans
Time: Most of the session will be spent on AI's abilities and participants identifying how to identify their own competencies, and then creating a cognitive friend plan
Process: Throughout the presentation, we'll have turn and talks, polls, and activities where they'll be able to take home specific examples to try.
https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2024/04/04/whats-it-like-to-be-a-teacher-in-america-today/
https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Shaping_the_Future_of_Learning_2024.pdf
https://www.gettingsmart.com/2023/11/09/ai-is-the-cognitive-friend-weve-always-wanted/
https://www.gettingsmart.com/2023/10/31/the-cognitive-dance-of-ai/
https://ed3world.substack.com/p/the-chilling-truth-about-teachers
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