Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

I love Sal's optimism of the possibilities of AI in education and life. I am going to jump in to learning AI for my work and life because of this book. I now have a chatgpt account.

Bought this to understand how AI might impact teaching and learning in the next decade.What I like• Explains complex AI topics in a clear, engaging way• Shows how tools like ChatGPT can support both students and teachers• Balanced optimism—doesn't ignore risks, but stays hopefulWhat could be better• Focuses mostly on Western education systems• Would love more real classroom case studiesBottom line: A smart, hopeful look at the future of education with AI. Perfect for educators, parents, or edtech folks, but look at The Age of AI if you want a broader societal view.

Brave New Words provides an excellent introduction to AI and then dives very deeply into its positive aspects for educators. The metaphor of students having their own private tutor is a strong one. The Author, Salman Khan (yep, that one!), stays encouraging throughout but is never naive about the potential for AI abuse by students (and teachers). AI, like all other technologies, such as the telephone, fax, and computer, were all feared for some reason. Khan challenges us to use AI to bring students up to par and excel. Today's students are tomorrow's workers. AI is not a threat to their jobs. Instead, real humans using AI are a threat to their jobs.

Sal Khan is a masterful storyteller. I didn't plan to, but I read the book cover to cover. I learned a lot about how to better leverage GenAI in my teaching, and was equally inspired by the stories, history, and mindset he shares. This book is a valuable resource for educators in the AI age, helping us prepare students for college, careers, and life.

I was involved in the development of early computer learning technology including the Logo programming language and high school tutorial software called Arrakis. These were in the early days of home computers. In both these experiences I discovered that like any tools, the impact was mostly dependent on the teacher integrating these tools into the learning environment. The subsequent research confirmed this.The examples provided in the book on how teachers could use AI, underestimates the effort required to integrate AI into the teaching environment. In classes with 25-30 students, personalization of AI generated materials and exercises requires a teacher to tailor AI content to the individual students abilities. This requires significant added work for the teacher.The book implies AI emulates “one on one” tutoring. I have used AI to help create exercises and problems in math and reading and this is not an easy task. Added to this is the frequent errors in the results. This requires close editing and checking.The book identifies student motivation as a factoring in learning. AI does not address this problem. Just because it is interactive doesn’t mean the student is motivated. When i used Khanmigo, the tutoring responses contained words that would be unfamiliar to the student I identified. As a result the advice was not understood by the student.The book promotes the Kahn system a great deal. The system does help like other systems such as IXL, but the AI addition is not as effective give as the book professes.Like many books recently written about AI, it is overly optimistic and does not provide in depth insights on how AI integrates within the current education environment. AI as a teacher’s tool is fine once the teacher experiences its capabilities and limitations for themselves. AI as a tutor as the book promotes is a stretch. A good tutor senses a student’s skills and challenges through observation. AI tutoring has no senses. It’s a one dimension statistical text generator. Beware using it for math. It makes errors which could easily frustrate a student.

Great AI ideas for education. The scenarios Sal present are very useful and realistic. But, it feels a bit like he is pushing his product upon the reader.Worth read overall.

Para comprender este y otros "emprendimientos" que se vuelven tendencia. Excelente material, que nos ayuda a reducir la ansiedad por entender de dónde viene y hacia dónde va la inteligencia artificial.

In the educational world of "teaching to the test" here is an inevitable development - using AI to teach what kids need to know, and upgrading live teachers to be life coaches, building character, determination, ethics, civics, and empathy. Oh boy! What an opportunity, and what a shake-up.