What encouragement do teachers need to foster HI in AI times? The answer in 5 E's.
White Peacock painting by Michelle Korenfeld with the 5 E's strategy logo Raising Creative Thinkers (C)

What encouragement do teachers need to foster HI in AI times? The answer in 5 E's.

Let's make it clear: Teachers are swamped. So many AI tools to experience with. So many new teaching methods to explore. so many skills to foster! How can we expect teachers to do all that without training that goes beyond how to use new AI tools? Teachers need empowering encouragement.

There were times the issue at hand was memorizing, then constructing knowledge. Now the vision is students creating value inter-disciplinarily, creative problem solving for their communities and the world. That is The Learning Compass 2030 vision. What can a teacher say about that other than: 'Wow!'

This is more than learning. This is personality building. So, teachers need personality building too. We just need to encourage them to be human and humane role models in the classroom, after years they have been restricted to passing on information strictly according to curricula.

I am at awe with the great job at hand.

I will try to tackle this challenge using the 5 E's strategy, honoring Prof. Shulman's knowledge types for teacher training.

Explore - Teachers need content knowledge about creativity and creative problem solving, research based. We all think we are problem solvers. Yet we can elevate these skills. Teachers need knowledge about care ethics and solving ethical dilemmas while using AI. Teachers need world knowledge, so they mentor students through PBL.

Experience - Teachers need to experience the creativity models they learned about, using them to create lesson plans, promoting their pupils' creative problem solving. They need to experience PBL themselves as part of their training.

Examine - Teachers need to reflect on their perception of education. This can be done by metaphors. Do we believe what we should do is fill the student's mind as a vessel? Water his growth like a gardener tending to plants? Without a change of paradigm, all the change efforts in the world, will be like driving in neutral.

Elevate - What metaphor would we give the education we seek today, the kind promoting human intelligence in AI times? I like the metaphor of a forager bee. When is school, the child uses wonder to wander the world by learning. As grown-up he/she will actually wander the world, preserving the child's wonder.

Express - We should encourage teachers to express their uniqueness has humans, their beautiful personality. The class is their world.

Let's make education a warm-hearted process. Not just cold information transference.

One thing, AI will never have (hopefully) is imagination. It can only create based on past information. Not imagine a whole new idea. I started reading the book What is Imagination ? (621 fascinating pages, and it's just volume 1). The author, Prof. Israel Bar-Yehuda Idalovichi , wrote that imagination is the bridge between the inner world and the outer world. What do you think? I'm still trying to figure it out. About my student book Creative children Like the Animals of the World I wrote that it supports the children in enriching the inner world, so they will be ready for the world.

Student book Michelle Korenfeld Raising Creative Thinkers

With a rich inner world, children can write rich and accurate prompts. The prompts the children write are the AI's? They are the children's. To create, the AI must get the human imaginative prompt. But we have to write to the AI what we want, to pave the way so it gives us what we want. Confused? We'll go back to our northern star - the 5 E's.

Let's encourage teachers to go beyond cold instruction into warm education. They need the encouragement of parents, communities, school leadership and policy. The students will be the ones most adaptive. When children see the teacher becomes a co-learner, they respect that, they even encourage the educator themselves.

What is warm education and its relation to PBL? I think I'll use the word educator, instead of teacher, to demonstrate that. Note: Presenting the subject by AI in wonderous ways is still cold teaching. Education becomes warm when the students express their inner voice. Create value. Create well-being.

Explore - Introduce today's lesson / project challenge, in a way that arises curiosity.

Experience - Experiential learning, writing, drawing, coloring, prompting AI tools, conversation. All the while students draw on their own ideas.

Examine - The educator checks the students' ideas and insights together with them. How do they light up the project challenge? the subject? Are there misconceptions to clarify, so understanding of the subject will improve?

Elevate - The educator guides on making original education products based on the students' ideas.

Express - The students present their products, express in writing or digitally. The educator expresses joy at their achievements. Truly, this is all that needs to be done. When my daughters went to learn and create something new, I always said: 'I'm looking forward to seeing your work'.

To sum up, I have a vision for a course building educators' creative personality, in every teacher education. But that will take time, if ever. I do hope for such a course online, but it will never be the same as a creative role model lecturer training the teaching students, encouraging humanely. For now, I offer The Michelangelo in the 21st Century lecture , The Creativity Wheel, and the 5 E's PDs . All work great online because I talk in paintings. These PDs unravel warm education, encourage and revitalize. A great way to start next school year fresh and energized. To continue the empowerment, I offer Michelangelo in the 21st Century - Practical teaching inspiration book .

Thank you Dr Kathryn Murray , CEO, facilitator and speaker at Future Strong Education , for reviewing Michelangelo in the 21st Century :

"This text is a guide for teachers. it suggests considerations that teachers could use in the classroom using the 5 E approach. Mentioning social and emotional learnings, classroom climate and other points reminds teachers that learning is more than just academic success. Tables of suggestions in different places in the book supports the text well. Pages 87-94 contain a useful table to help teachers navigate challenges in their teaching practice."

It is with great honor that I share with you becoming a founding member for the Human Intelligence (HI) movement. The movement's mission is to foster students' human and humane skills in AI times. Well, what do you think? Of course I joined! Join us too ! Thank you Michelle Ament, EdD , great to work together!

Thank you Uri Ron for the 5E's ingenious logo. The White Peacock painting in this article's image was painted by hand by me, and is presented to you warm-heartedly.

Thank you, Shellon Christian , it was great chatting, and learning about how you creatively support students around the US academically and social-emotionally, by tutoring, consulting, and training teachers to respond to students' personal needs.It was great chatting with Evin Schwartz , learning more about the amazing Belouga platform, that offers opportunities for PBL and creative problem-solving to promote students' (and teachers') agency. Do check it out! Bob Heath 's first book in a series of 4 is published! It will help businesses allocate budgets toward sustainablity and effectiveness . Thank you KayLynne Watson, M.Ed , for Year up 's great work helping young adults elevate their skills to find work that fulfills their potential. Indeed, fostering their creativity, critical and creative problem solving-skills is a worthy aim. Thank you James Kaye and Matthew Karabinos, MAT , good to meet colleagues from the HI movement. Great to learn about the great work of Danithea Ward, Ed.S. , DR. MARIA S. and Ross F. Williams Jr.,PhD ! Steve Peha , looking forward to learn more about GenerousAI, and its potential to leverage human intelligence.

That is all for now. I will probable have something to add in 5 minutes.

Have a great weekend,

Creatively yours,

Michelle Korenfeld

Author and painter with 10 creativity books. Book and a lecture : Michelangelo in the 21st Century. The book is internationally acclaimed, and gets great reviews.

My vision is that at the age of accelerated use of AI, our children, who are the generation most affected by that, gain the most effective tools for creative problem-solving.

My book, Michelangelo in the 21st Century gives practical tools to train students to think creatively, so they will know how to leverage accurate and rich prompts. That way they will become the great influential leaders of the years to come.

The lecture is a rich experience of art, nature and science. It gives not only energies for creativity, but also tools and fresh teaching ideas. It gives a strategy – an anchor, to lead the way from the child’s inner voice to success and achievement.

It supports not only the whole child, but also the whole teacher.

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Michelle Ament, EdD

Chief Academic Officer, Co-President Human Intelligence Movement

4 个月

Thank you for sharing this! So many takeaways but a couple really stood out for me. Taking time to examine our beliefs about learning and education and expressing our humanistic traits. So powerful and a needed catalyst for change!

Nachum Katz, PCC, Impactful Life and Executive Coaching

I bring invigorating executive leadership coaching to your doorstep. An inspirational speaker, an empowering workshop facilitator. We can touch the most delicate issues and turn them into cutting edge advantages for you.

4 个月

Beautiful article, dear Michelle!! Loved it! I would add, that the 5 E should be preceded by at least four imperatives: 1. loving humans and especially children. 2. Teaching and practicing Empathy (the biggest of all E's!). 3. Leadership - leading one's self and a class are the most fundamental skills where all this starts and ends. 4. Being ir seeking to be inspired, and inspiring others creates magic. The educational act is complex yet simple, and it starts with love. Thank you, Michelle!!

James Kaye

Director at BeWorldClass | Building tech to improve Holistic Impact Education

4 个月

Love the sound of this framework, would you recommend reading "what is imagination?" or is there a better starting point for this? If AI was good at assessing ideas as good or bad, surely you could generate 1000000 super random outputs to solve a problem and get ai to see which ideas work. Would that at least simulate imagination? Similar to the thought experiment of an infinite number of monkeys with typewriters given enough time would write the complete works of Shakespeare

Dr Kathryn Murray

CEO Future Strong Education International Consultancy based in Australia. Creator of the revolutionary Brain-SET Environments Formula delivering Professional Development globally; Inspirational Keynote Speaker.

4 个月

An informative article Michelle Korenfeld that creates opportunities to think and support children and teachers in many ways. It was my honour to review your books and thank you for sharing my thoughts about your text Michaelangelo ??

Matthew Karabinos, MAT

Passion for #AIinEducation; harness #AI to transform structured curriculum into engaging lessons; foster critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, communication, and curiosity. “Be curious, not judgmental.”~Ted Lasso

4 个月

Love this framing of it! I want to try to incorporate this!

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