It’s absolutely critical that everyone who cares about learning through technology understands this point. It requires a radical shift in perspective, from pre-generative AI technologies to generative AI technologies. It requires changing the way we think about everything from pedagogy to supporting infrastructure. I’ve been writing and speaking about this topic for months now, and I’m not alone. Here’s how the CEO of Groq put it:

“Think of it this way: We were in the information age, where you could make high-fidelity copies of data and distribute them. That was the case with the Internet, that was the case with mobile, that was the case with the printing press. It’s really the same kind of technology, just on a different scale. And even though it was the same kind of technology on a different scale, even that was hard for our intuition to adapt to. But generative AI is not an information age technology, because you’re not making copies of something. You’re creating something new in the moment. And the difference is that when you create something new, you need *computation* to do it in the moment. It’s not grabbing something off a hard drive, doing some computation, and sending it out. You’re creating it in response to a particular question.”

Information Age paradigms like Open Educational Resources (OER) aimed to harness the power of the Internet to make perfect copies of existing resources and distribute them widely at near-zero cost. *But that’s not what Generative AI is about.* It’s not about providing learners with access to cheap copies of static, pre-written content, but about providing them with access to *dynamic expertise* with which they can engage, argue, collaborate, and converse. Perhaps we should call it a “generational” technology.

Remember:

• The Internet has eliminated the barriers of time and space in education, and
• Generative AI removes access to expertise as a barrier to education.

Just as instructional designs have had to be updated to accommodate all the changes in the possibilities of online learning, they will again need to be radically updated to accommodate the new possibilities of generative AI.



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