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Stephen Downes

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"A decade ago," writes Chris Kennedy, "I wrote about how meaningful change in education spreads through diffusion rather than replication." He credits David Albury for the idea. This post adapts the idea to the spread of AI. "Just as we learned with previous innovations, the most impactful changes come when we allow ideas to diffuse naturally, adapting to each teacher's unique talents and each school's and district's unique context." This makes sense, since the odds of finding the killer AI application everyone in education should use are nearly zero. Not that there won't be a thousand PowerPoints suggesting otherwise.

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