How Can We Matter

Discover how we can reimagine education for the AI era , drawing insights from Sanskrit's profound categorization of different types of "teaching."  As AI transforms existing professions and creates entirely new job types , the nuanced distinctions in "teaching" beautifully captured by the Sanskrit language gain significant new relevance. Beyond Teacher : A Categorization of Educators Among languages, the ancient Indian language  Sanskrit is arguably unique in possessing such a nuanced vocabulary, allowing it to differentiate between various types of " teachers " according to their distinct capabilities. Copyright: Raja Ravi Varma - Google Arts & Culture Here is a fascinating insight into the nuanced understanding of teaching embedded within the Sanskrit language. It highlights how ancient Indian thought meticulously categorized different facets of learning and mentorship, far beyond a single, generic term for "teacher." This linguistic p...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has many uses and potential misuses. This post presents some examples of how AI can be used, misused, and abused and its potential consequences. Seeing the World Through Our Lens It all started when my imagination was triggered by a cloud formation of an image in the azure sky that looked like a giant face peeking out from behind a building. Immediately I captured that image with my mobile phone camera on 31 May 2024 at 18:21hrs. It goes without saying that what we observe in the sky depends on the way the image is visualized, conceived, and interpreted by us. This in turn is shaped by our background and life experiences.  That is, our ability to see, hear, and become aware of the image, through the limits of human senses, creates different perceptions on different people. AI: A Creative Tool Inspired by what I visualized in the photo, I used an AI tool (Google Gemini) to generate ideas for a poem. Of course, the poem is not a verbatim reproduction of w...

My grandson, in his 12th grade philosophy class, is given the following type of discussion assignments: