Melissa Chan-Green
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 30 Aug
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What are you seeing in terms of...
the general feeling towards AI as an opportunity or a disruptor of the way we learn to think and to learn?
Yeah, and I think that's why I asked you because it's not really a –
this is anti-AI, what we are discussing now, right?
It's just saying, okay, so this is the case and this is what is happening in schools in terms of technology and how the way we teach and the tools that we have to teach are changing.
What do we need to do to make sure we don't lose all of those amazing human-centered and relationship-focused skills and experiences in the classroom as well, right?
The Alpha Schools model is something that has been
quite significant interest when it's been mentioned on School Shorts before.
And for anybody who hasn't caught that previous episode, a very quick summary is that it's kind of online AI-centred learning where it's a few hours a day of the kind of academic skills and then the idea is that it allows you the time to
um go off and do other skills that are perhaps i don't know physical or in your subject interest area through the rest of the day and because it is ai centered and tailored and individualized that that academic learning theoretically happens a lot quicker was this discussed at south by southwest and what is your take on that kind of model yeah i really get the appeal
Wow.
I mean, and that's actually quite a significant gripe or concern, I would say, because if it is so wonderful, it's really only available to those who have the resource to use it, which creates massive inequity in education.
When you've got so much choice too though, and that example you talked about with the micro schools, isn't there an issue there with how do you actually carry out checks and balances and make sure that those schools are safe in what they are teaching and who is teaching?
How do you maintain oversight over so many options?
With the alpha schools and the benefits that you're talking about, does it also align with what you're talking about when you're saying, yeah, but we need to give children, especially in early learning, as much of a device-free education as we can, and we need to have them writing, we need to have them writing by hand rather than typing, we need to have them
learning social-emotional skills, so we need to actually have them interacting with people.
Are the two mutually exclusive or do you think that they can actually work together?
Yeah, I guess you want to give a brain the opportunity to learn to think without being handed information or get to a point where there is some inconvenient learning, which we've talked about previously too, which probably as adults, the more we use AI or the more we rely on AI, the more we lose the opportunity to do that
the hard thinking part of it, which is really where innovation comes.
Yes.
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