We have made more technological progress in the last 200 years than in all of human history. And I'm afraid that what we teach mostly in schools is the human history that goes from the 1800s to the past not necessarily. We need to place an equal emphasis on this last 200 years of progress as we do the rest of human history right. Because it's not equal and the amount of changes incredible and now what we're seeing with generative AI.
Maria Andersen shares about designing courses in an age of artificial intelligence (AI) on episode 469 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.
Quotes from the episode
Student’s natural world is the technological world.
-Maria Andersen
Students have a lot of questions about how society has changed.
-Maria Andersen
All of the things we have today came about because people did something in the past.
-Maria Andersen
With generative AI, we have an incredible acceleration of change happening.
-Maria Andersen