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Supporting teachers as explorers may be education's biggest AI lever
Supporting teachers as explorers may be education's biggest AI lever
Winthrop argues that educators themselves need to operate in explorer mode as technology and education change, and she identifies supporting teachers in that adaptation as a particularly important lever.
- Speaker
- Rebecca Winthrop
- Topic
- Teacher development
- Source timestamp
- 35:52
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