AI for Understanding and Skills Building By Traci Eshelman, PhD

For years now I’ve enjoyed AI’s affordances, even when no one knew we were using AI. I even had the first Androids (Éclair & Donut) that had a built in text-to-speech engine. I started to integrate technology for teaching foreign languages in the early 2000’s. When gen AI took America by storm, I was ALL-IN, marveling at how it revolutionized completing tedious compliance tasks, outlining lessons, reviewing feedback, refining language, verifying my translations in multiple languages instantly… The affordances are endless. Systems like Grammarly improved my writing and my confidence immensely. 

Despite embracing technology for years, over the last nine months I’ve noticed my brain degrading. Continue reading below: