I completed Greg Shove’s online workshop “AI for Personal Productivity” from the education company Section recently. It really motivated me to start using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in my daily work as a school leader. He gave practical advice on how to use it. I think of AI as my personal superpower that will augment my work. My ears perked up when Shove said that AI is the antidote to cognitive decline due to aging. At age 56, I want to continue leading schools for many years to come and it sounds like AI will help me greatly. I highly recommend taking the course for yourself to get you started. The next offering will be on November 15, 2023.
In the workshop, he suggested what Large Language Models to use and how to organize your chats and prompts. We then audited our workflows to see how AI could help us in our daily and weekly tasks. Greg sees AI serving as a Personal Assistant, A Creator, or A Strategist, depending on the task. I was reassured when he said we should not be concerned about uploading our work to an LLM.
Shove thinks that by using AI, we will get time back by reducing drudge work and spending more time interacting with others and weighing decisions instead of prepping for making decisions. AI will help me make better decisions and improve my confidence.
I’ve been seeing a multitude of Artificial Intelligence courses being offered to educators. I want to be on the first wave of school leaders using AI and hope this course puts me on my way.
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