Helping the Development of a Skill with Victor Karkar Transformative Principal 565

<p>This episode is part of the Summer of AI Series, brought to you by <a href="https://schoolai.com/tp">SchoolAI</a>, <a href="https://scrible.com">Scrible</a>, and <a href="https://focalpoint.education">FocalPointK12</a>.</p><br><p>Scrible is about the writing process.<br>- Impact of AI on writing.<br>- What does “embrace it” actually mean?<br>- It’s important to define it appropriately.<br>- We talk about teaching and learning together, but they diverge a little bit here.<br>- How does embracing it mean that students are using cognitive skills.<br>- Litmus test for the use of automation in education: Does it help develop or bypass the development of a skill?<br>- It’s ok to have automation as skills are increasing.<br>- Granularity is key.<br>- Map activities in the writing process to skills along the way.<br>- The “I use it myself” reason may not be good enough for our rising generation.<br>- Conflation of cognitive development mode with productivity mode.<br>- Education isn’t about being productive.<br>- When compliance is gone, they realize it’s all fake.<br>- Good writers and not good writers.<br>- Don’t let what it does for you strongly shape what we should be doing for the next generation.<br>- Lived experience bias - because I lived this, i have this experience.<br>- What’s best for students?<br>- First principles perspective<br>- If we don’t give them the opportunity to gain skills early on, we run into a situation where people won’t know what good looks like.<br>- What if you stop teaching math and just give kids calculators.<br>- <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorkarkar/">Connect on LinkedIn<br></a><br></p><p><strong>About Victor Karkar<br></strong><br></p><p>Meet <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorkarkar/">Victor Karkar</a>, the brains behind Scrible, a game-changing startup that’s shaking up the way we do web-based research and collaboration. Victor’s been around the block in both the Internet and biotech sectors, mainly focusing on product management and business developme