Sabba Quidwai, EdD 🙌🏼 Designing Schools

For too long, schools have relied on pockets of excellence, brilliant ideas trapped in silos. Now, by treating talent and technology as part of the same ecosystem, we can scale that excellence across every classroom, every team, every learner.

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If you asked me why students reach for AI, here's what I'd say, and it isn't laziness.

In July, 98 teenagers from all fifty states sat in a replica of the U.S. Senate and wrote AI rules for American schools.

They passed them 82 to 16.

Sam Altman was asked what he'd teach his own son.

Not coding. Not prompting. Four things:

Learn how to learn - fast.
Adapt to constant, relentless change.
Figure out what people actually want.
Care deeply about other humans.

One thing I wasn't expecting from this workshop. This is a clip from a session I did with educators and school leaders, and while everyone came from different schools, roles, and experiences, many of the same ideas kept surfacing.

One of the biggest misconceptions about AI in education is that it's meant to replace teachers.

The opposite is true.

The best use cases I've found have nothing to do with replacing expertise and everything to do with protecting it.