4. Better Together

• Kahn fully understands the power of collaboration when it comes to learning. Accordingly, Kahnmigo has been designed to promote collaboration. It can create and facilitate small student discussion groups, which frees up the teacher. It can also connect students with vetted “near peers” who can do individual tutoring via Zoom or in person. Ironically, this high-tech approach to learning can feature more human interaction.
• There is an example here of how Kahnmigo can help a student who is overly anxious prior to a test. Angela Duckworth, the author of Grit, chimes in here about the notion of artificial empathy and how it can help students with mental health issues. This is important as mental health issues have increased for students 40% since 2010.
• Just as AI can be a teaching assistant, it can be a parenting assistant too. Tutoring your own kids can be difficult. You may not fully understand the content and AI can help with that. Parents often use AI to learn content before they try to tutor. Tutoring often produces friction between parents and students and AI can help with that. AI can also give advice regarding relationships that students and parents have with teachers.
• For Salman, AI is part of the relationship he has with his kid’s learning. They also use it to learn things together that have nothing to do with school work. If AI allows kids to learn more efficiently, there should be more time for engagement without technology. Be sure to take time to logoff and do other things with the family.

5. Keeping Kids Safe

• AIs are known for making up facts. Ideally you are dealing with an AI that can fact-check itself. It should also refuse to engage in debates about things like how the Earth is flat. When you do a search, the top items are likely to be ads and the next are from people who are good at making sure their content ends up near the top of searches. Kahnnmigo can make sure that your kids see valuable content. It can help them stay on task and even let them know when it’s time to take a break.
• AI tools like Kahnmigo can tell parents exactly what their child has been doing. Parents, however, need to find a balance between monitoring progress and respecting privacy. Kahnmigo can help by providing suggestions as to how to deal with a child’s progress without being too controlling.

6. Teaching in the Age of AI

• Thanks to AI, 1: Teachers will expect more from students. 2. AI will be further integrated into class assignments. 3. All classrooms will be flipped as lectures will happen at home and homework will happen in a much more interactive classroom environment.
• Salman sees AIs as teaching assistants that make teachers’ jobs easier and more enjoyable. As such they will be less likely to leave the profession like they are now. By helping integrate students’ interests into lesson plans, classrooms will be more joyful. These assistants will be available around the clock for every student and provide parents with timely progress reports. AI will also allow parents who could not do home teaching to take it on and improve the quality for those already doing it.
• As for cheating, Sal points out that it is not new. One way around this problem is to have students write essays in class. It is also possible for AI to report to teachers the process each student followed in the production of an essay. In this world, students get immediate detailed feedback rather than little or none.

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