I have a lot of passion areas in the field of education. Sometimes they align, sometimes they feel separate. Overtime, as I stay active as a learner the worlds of interest begin to intersect and new moments of AHA! emerge that keep me moving forward.
I have been fascinated by the world of AI like most everyone lately and have spent time working to be proactive and figure out how AI and education can move forward together.
I have always been fascinated by inquiry, project based learning, and developing learning that does not suck by creating authentic learning experiences for students and educators.
Recently, I have started a new support for a team of educators working on a project to bring the voices of students to the world. And as a result of the work, we began with an incredible interview and Q&A with Kelsey Snell from NPR to help us learn more about her process and key ideas to creating a compelling story for the reader/listener/viewer.
After the session, which was incredible, I wanted to organize some of her key insights for my own learning, connections to other projects happening, and to model how to analyze and process the ideas in a way that we could use back in the classroom.
……queue up AI and in particular a tool I have been rather fascinated with called Notably
I used this tool in a new way and my mind was blown. It was blown because I saw a new world of learning, processing, and utilizing moments of learning opportunities to dive deeper into the work.
I won’t do a play by play, but will provide a basic overview so you get a sense of how I obtained what you are about to see.
Essentially what I did was load up the video recording of our session with Kelsey into my project.
I then used the AI tools of Notably to transcribe the session so I did not have to do that manually and type up all the words and phrases.
Once I had the transcript I read through the transcript and highlighted the key phrases and ideas that I felt were really important from Kelsey. I did not tag anything as I am not at that level of understanding yet of the tool, but simply highlighted all my favorite ideas.
After I did that I then moved to a page where all the highlights were now on digital sticky notes. I was able to then sort and group them based on key themes that I felt were groupings of importance to me.
After I grouped them I could then use the AI tools of Notably to have the platform create a summary of the theme for me.
And this is where I stopped, but want the reader to know there is so much more I could do with this information that I have not even unpacked.
I am sharing this because as I went through this sorting and organizing process both by myself and with the help of AI, I was able to organize my thinking and notes in a way that fit my brain. Tools like Notably also give me a space to curate lots of information and start to identify trends across interviews, research, note taking, etc.
I don’t know all the implications for moving to the hands of students, but I can’t help but think how a tool like this could be beyond powerful to engage deeper levels of thinking with students if it was used as a debrief activity to process what we learned. And how the information could be easily accessed throughout a project as reference to creating more meaningful work.
And….how all research for an ongoing project could be bundled in a platform like this for students to better understand their process and journey of learning. It becomes easier for students to see their thinking and learning.
Here is the document of the work of the ideas sorted, organized and summarized. It is rather long so I have decided to place it in a document for easier access.
I welcome all thoughts and questions as we all continue to process the intersection of these worlds for enhanced learning.
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