Techno - Education: AI, Neuralink, and the New Age of Indian Learning
A 60-minute session on how technology has moved into the way we learn: AI tutors at midnight, robot teachers, a chip in the brain, the lockdown classroom on one shared phone, free teachers on YouTube and the phone that's “only for studies”. Is technology making learning fairer and deeper, or just faster and shinier? Twelve independent cards; open three or four.
The opening question
The last time you had to learn how to do something new, where did you go first: a person, a book, YouTube or AI?
Everyone in the room answers this in one line before any card is opened. Write the answers down; you will come back to them.
The cards
12 ways into the topic
Each card is independent. Your group votes on which to open, and four or five is plenty for an hour. Behind every card sit three prompts, one at a time, that only appear once it is opened on the board. Unopened cards keep for next time.
- 1
A Brain Chip For Learning
Imagine a tiny chip in your head. You could learn French in a week and never forget a formula again.
- 2
An AI Tutor At Home
It's 11 pm and your child is stuck on a maths problem. The tuition teacher is asleep. An AI app explains it patiently, five different ways, for free.
- 3
A Robot Teacher In Class
Your child's school gets a robot teacher. It knows every subject. It never gets tired, never shouts and never gives homework. The children love it.
- 4
Online School In Lockdown
School closed overnight. Suddenly class was a small box on a phone.
- 5
One Phone, Three Children
There is one smartphone in the house. Three children have online class at the same time. And their father needs the phone for work.
- 6
Learning Apps Sold To Parents
A salesman visits your home. He tests your child and says they're falling behind. A tablet course could fix it.
- 7
Learning From YouTube
You couldn't understand a chapter in class. Then a free YouTube teacher explained it in ten minutes. Now you have three hundred saved videos.
- 8
A Phone For Studies
Your child needs a phone for school. Homework comes on WhatsApp and the notes are online. So you hand it over. Now it's 11 pm and they're still on it.
- 9
Teaching Your Parents Technology
Your mother asks how to send a photo on WhatsApp. You showed her last week, and the week before. You sigh, take the phone and do it yourself.
- 10
Memorising When Google Exists
You spent nights learning dates, formulas and capitals by heart. Now a phone can tell you any of them in two seconds.
- 11
Online Degrees And Courses
Your cousin finished a degree online, from home, while working full time. Your uncle says it's not a real degree.
- 12
Why The Old Classroom Worked
A blackboard, a notebook and a teacher who wrote it all by hand.
The line to leave with
Of everything you know how to do, which part could no machine have taught you, and who did?
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