If you've spent time watching your customers, understanding what task they need to perform, and posing questions about the circumstances and potential solutions, experimentation becomes a natural step to test those ideas.
This approach also saves time and helps to prevent potential redundancies. It also helps to identify and focus on exactly what you should be solving for.
If you can increase the number of experiments you try from a hundred to a thousand, you dramatically increase the number of innovations you produce.
This point is very key to the theme of this section of the article!
The bottom line is that if you ask salient questions, observe salient situations, and talk to more diverse people, you will likely need to run fewer experiments.
This is a sound approach that makes perfect sense
GenAI will have an effect somewherebetween solving all of education’s problems and destroy-ing learning and education completely.
This statement sums up my sentiments regarding the proliferation of GenAI technology and its uses. On one hand, Gen AI is a tool that provides learners with guidance, or suggestions as it relates to ideation for assignments. On the other, it is a crutch, that robs learners of critical thinking skills that we as humans have relied on up to this point. This technology was promoted to be assistive to users in various industries. However, it has started to make some jobs obsolete and has reduced learners' abilities to think for themselves as often as they once needed to do before the emergence of this technology.
When instructors and students are together physicallyin the same room, it is possible to know what resources
This is why there is such great value with in-person leader-led facilitation. When the learner is in the presence of an instructor, it is easier to gauge based on the learners behaviors and responses what knowledge they actually possess. However, as the world embraces GenAI tools, it will slowly become the norm for educators and evaluators to allow learners to use the technology. I can recall a time in my educational upbringing where math teachers impressed upon us the importance of knowing arithmetic and not relying on calculators which was relatively newer technology in the 80's. "You won't always have a calculator in your pocket" they would say. Little did they know that the advent of cell phones would change that. Gen AI has with great speed become ubiquitous and learning professionals will begrudgingly need to embrace its usage; even though it will degrade the human creative process and thinking in my opinion.
GenAI tools have made answering all three questionsmore complicated, especially in the context of asynchro-nous learning due to their overreliance on a particular set ofassessment types and strategies – written responses, quizzes,and the like. GenAI tools can produce human-like responsesto these types of assessments, allowing students to avoid [onpurpose or accidentally] the hard work of learning. Evengenerating or interpreting graphics and diagrams is nowwithin the reach of many GenAI tools.
This paragraph speaks to my concerns regarding the impact of AI on future generations of learners. With the continued acceptance and usage of AI, the Alpha and Beta generation of learners will not be responsible for the "hard work" of learning. Instead, Gen AI will provide learners with quick acceptable answers that evaluators will reluctantly have to accept due to the sophistication and intelligence of the technology all the while wondering if the answers provided by the learner was an original thought, or an AI response.