Stephen Downes

This article starts by quoting in full a post of mine that has gotten some traction on LinkedIn describing "the impact of AI on higher education." It was preparation for an event I'll participate in later this year. The thrust of David Truss's comment isn't to agree or push back, but rather, to ask, who will get us to this vision? Who is this 'we' of which I speak? "'We' won't get there following the guidance of financially lucrative edu-tech business," he writes. "'We' won't get there like we did with Web2.0 tools in the late 2000's and early 2010's, on the backs of tech savvy educators leading the charge. 'We' won't get there because of some governmental vision pushing a new AI enhanced curriculum." Fair point. If the model of 'educators' is 'teachers working in schools following institutional guidelines' then they are unlikely to move us from point A to point B. No, I was thinking (and this should surprise no one) of 'educators' as 'people like me' - working as educators but not typically in education. I have long said that change will come from outside the system. I don't doubt today that this remains true.