Bayly DiPilato

Talking the Read, Episode 8 Treating the Burnout Since the start of summer, I've been pretty busy building out initiatives for Braving Education's mission, gaining experience in new roles and tasks. I've started consulting in other school districts, I'm planning a new PLC for this upcoming school year for my home district, and I'm co-developing digital-spatial products for a local non-profit organization. It's probably the busiest summer I've had in a while, but it's refreshing and completely necessary.

A new episode of Talking the Read is here! Chatbot hosts Chris and Liam unpack the dangers of cynicism in our schools and what teachers and administrators can do about it. #Education #EdTech #AIinEducation #EduSky #EduLeaders #AiEDU

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Talking the Read, Episode 7 Learn and Teach in the Ocean of Technology I've been thinking a lot about how educators need to respond to some of our biggest issues in education: the rapid decline in student engagement, the steep decline in curricular relevancy, and the steady increase in teacher burnout. I don't have all the answers to these problems, but I do find myself circling around one particular response that I feel very passionate about: developing a new set of technology skills we should teach (and expect from) our current and future educators.

In my humble opinion, it is absolutely necessary for both teachers and students to acquire these skills if we wish to optimize our personal, professional, and global potential as thriving individuals and communities.

Talking the Read, Episode 6 To Live Deliberately Last week, I listened to Kevin Roose and Casey Newton (hosts of the tech podcast Hard Fork) speak with Demis Hassabis, the chief executive of Google DeepMind. Toward the end of the show, Kevin posed a question that took his usual "tech exec" interviews down a not-so-usual path. It was philosophical, historical, and literary. In my opinion, Hassabis' answer was grossly ideal and out of touch with reality.

"For me, there's a sort of comfort in this idea of Tech-scendentalism."

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Talking the Read, Episode 5 Floating Fish You know those learning platforms that have a library of curated articles for you to assign your students to read or listen to, maybe even annotate, and then answer some standardized questions? No doubt, they're convenient; but, honestly, what does anyone really learn from fishing in a stagnant pond? Allow me to elaborate on this metaphor. In the pond, the fish don’t swim — they float.

"In the pond, the fish don’t swim — they float. That’s what it feels like when we ask students to engage with curated articles that are months old..." #EduSky #EdTech #AiEDU #AIinEducation

Talking the Read, Episode 4 When the Joke Falls Flat While working on this week's episode of Talking the Read, I asked some of my family members to listen to the opening. I was trying something different with the music, and I wanted some feedback. I wanted to, simultaneously, poke fun at and validate the hype surrounding ChatGPT. Like what we're seeing with most AI tools, ChatGPT can do so much and, yet, at the same time, it falls so short in what we need.

"How we respond to AI and the reckoning it's having on education could either rid us of this joke, or make it worse. All of this is at the core of today's episode." #EduSky #EdTech #AiEDU #AIinEducation

Tried a cold opening for this episode, inspired by @kevinroose.com and @caseynewton.bsky.social with their show Hard Fork. If you’re thinking my chatbot host Chris sounds just like Kevin, I’m thinking the same thing! #podcast #podcastlife #EdTech

Talking the Read, Episode 3 Standardized Testing and Holistic Consideration "I don't do well on standardized tests." I hear this often from my high schoolers. My response? "Me neither." I quickly follow up with the fact that standardized tests don't tell your whole story as a student--nor do they define your future. I tell them my story of taking the SATs three times without much improvement, but that what got me into college wasn't my SAT, it was my solid GPA (that I…

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ChatGPT Prompting Frameworks for Educators This document presents five powerful frameworks that educators can use to create more effective ChatGPT prompts. Each framework offers a structured approach to prompt engineering, helping teachers eli...

This was too useful to ignore, but not quite presentable for teachers. So, I made it such. Doing so was a reminder at how important it is to think with a cross-AI platform mindset. More details in the disclaimer.

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“…brings new hope in the belief that AI developers understand the value in this dynamic relationship between questions and answers…”

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Talking the Read, Episode 2 Claude's Ode to the Socratic Seminar Many of us can probably recall our first ah-ha moment with AI--when we realized we could no longer view this as some ruinous technology in our field of education. Instead, we realized, despite our concerns (which are real concerns), there are some powerful learning opportunities to be had with artificial intelligence. For me, that moment came when trying out Quizlet's Q-Chat.

Talking the Read, Episode 2

Claude's Ode to the Socratic Seminar Many of us can probably recall our first ah-ha moment with AI--when we realized we could no longer view this as some ruinous technology in our field of education. Instead, we realized, despite our concerns (which are real concerns),…

We’re All to Blame for What Has Become of the U.S. Dept. of Education (Opinion) The trouble started decades ago with a flawed plan to improve America’s schools, writes a former New York superintendent.

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"Public education is especially worth supporting now... It’s where people with different values and beliefs rub shoulders and learn to live together as productive, contributing, citizens. It’s a bedrock of democracy that’s worth securing." #EduSky

Love this idea. Plenty of room to get creative with these tools!

I did some experimenting with @elevenlabs.io to see how it might be useful in the classroom. I ended up with a few ideas and a podcast.
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Talking the Read Using AI to Differentiate Reading (and Writing) Experiences As a high school English teacher, I'm always open to new and fresh ways to engage my students with reading material. While I'm well aware of the concerns surrounding how students use AI to essentially bypass all opportunities to hone their ELA skills, I do think there are ways to counter this by thinking differently about how we use AI in our curriculum. But it takes some experimenting on the teacher's part to figure out what this could and should look like.

Talking the Read

Using AI to Differentiate Reading (and Writing) Experiences As a high school English teacher, I'm always open to new and fresh ways to engage my students with reading material. While I'm well aware of the concerns surrounding how students use AI to essentially bypass all…

How do you define cheating in the age of AI? | TechCrunch This AI startup raised $5.3M to help people “cheat on everything.” But in the age of AI, how do you define cheating? Columbia University recently suspended student Roy Lee for building a tool to help people cheat on engineering interviews. He’s been making waves on X after posting a long thread detailing the saga and how […]

How do you define cheating in the age of AI?

Encouraging and expecting teachers to cover these topics also means stakeholders should expect that teachers have the media literacy skills to navigate these issues with students in ways that model the same diplomacy we wish to see outside of our classrooms.

“And yet, as rapidly as these technologies have grown, or perhaps because of it, the ethical concerns have not diminished.”

“AI’s role as a forcing function to spark efforts to make learning more valuable to students may be the most impactful (even if unintended) outcomes of AI in education.”

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Let’s keep this in mind as we also rethink (or should be rethinking) what it means to be media literate and how we teach this in our classrooms. It’s so much more than just fact checking. #edusky #medialiteracy

“The real takeaway should be this: give teachers the time, space, and support to engage with their own expectations—not through checklists, but through dialogue, reflection, and collaboration.”

"Perhaps we should, and must view AI as just an improved tool to be used in an evolving process. The reality for educators, however, is that we are still operating within a product-centered culture." #EduSky #TeachingInspiration #EducatorLife #EduCoach #EduSkyAI #EdTech #AIinEducation

The Walkman Effect The Mission of Braving Education I don't remember how old I was exactly when I got my first Walkman, but I remember my sudden amazement to the fact that I could slide a cassette tape into a device and play and replay (over and over again) that one hit song I first heard on the radio or saw on MTV. And I could use this technology wherever and whenever I wanted. It was fascinating.  But, eventually, most of us would grow tired of that one song, and the manual rewinding it demanded of us.

The Walkman Effect

The Mission of Braving Education I don't remember how old I was exactly when I got my first Walkman, but I remember my sudden amazement to the fact that I could slide a cassette tape into a device and play and replay (over and over again) that one hit song I first heard on the…

I agree. Genuinely curious for more details.