Learning with AI — Challenges and Opportunities

Whatever our personal feelings are about AI, the technology is here to stay — and advancing at a good clip. This newsletter will discuss a few challenges and opportunities for learning with AI, then give a few general recommendations for learning with AI.

Ideas

Here is Belcher’s Model for Learning — a short refresher:

• Our body and brain receives information from our senses, with the brain selecting information on which to focus.
• One way to think about processing in the brain is with two parts: Working memory and long-term memory. Working memory combines information from sensing and focusing with prior knowledge and skills in long-term memory, then uses the combination to do something with the knowledge and skills. Long-term memory is the “storehouse” of knowledge and skills, which you are continually modifying.
• The output of the learning process is practicing and performing, which is using the knowledge and skills in some way.
• (For a much deeper discussion about the entire Model for Learning, read this essay: That’s How Learning Works?!?! A Comprehensive Model for Understanding the Learning Process.)

If we are serious about learning a set of knowledge and skills, then we need to do a few actions with the…