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ACTIVE LEARNING WITH AI:
A PRACTICAL GUIDE
STEPHEN M. KOSSLYN

Demystifying AI and its relationship to education, this book provides a wealth
of step-by-step illustrations and examples to help instructors and course
designers both understand AI concepts and use them to build stimulating active
learning exercises and lesson plans.

Active learning has been shown to be more effective than traditional teaching
methods, but can be labor intensive and challenging to implement at scale. AIs
can help enhance active learning in various ways, such as by personalizing
instruction, providing real-time feedback, and enabling new interactive learning
formats. AI systems (like ChatGPT, GPT-4, Claude and Bard) can be used to
design, deliver, and assess active learning exercises. They can adjust
difficulty level, incorporate learner interests, create assessments, and provide
feedback.  Moreover, using AI for active learning can blend asynchronous and
synchronous learning; learners can interact with AI conveniently on their own
time, while still receiving dynamic feedback. This enables a more engaging,
personalized, and scalable learning experience. The book stresses that effective
active learning starts with clear, measurable learning objectives, which AI can
help generate and organize—and such learning objectives guide development of
aligned activities and assessments. The core of the book consists of many
illustrations of how AI can be used to leverage principles from the science of
learning, such as deep processing, chunking, and deliberate practice. The book
argues that AI opens new possibilities for active learning, but requires human
guidance. Used thoughtfully, AIs can make learning more engaging, personalized,
and scalable while drawing on learning science principles.


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 Contents

Preface

About the Author    
Active Learning and AI    
Using AI in Active Learning    
The Science of Learning    
Deep Processing
Chunking
Building Associations
Dual Coding
Deliberate Practice
Combining Principles
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
Creating, Situating, and Evaluating Activities
Acknowledgments

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

 

Stephen M. Kosslyn is currently the Founder, President and Chief Academic
Officer of Foundry College and is Founder and President of Active Learning
Sciences. Prior to that, he was Founding Dean and Chief Academic Officer of the
Minerva Schools at the Keck Graduate Institute. He previously served as Director
of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford
University after having been chair of the Department of Psychology, Dean of
Social Science, and the John Lindsley Professor of Psychology at Harvard
University. While at Harvard, he was also co-director of the Mind of the Market
Lab at Harvard Business School and a member of the Department of Neurology at
the Mass. General Hospital. He received a B.A. from UCLA and a Ph.D. from
Stanford University, both in psychology. Kosslyn's research has focused on the
nature of visual cognition, visual communication, and the science of learning;
he has authored or co-authored 14 books and over 300 papers on these topics.
Kosslyn has received numerous honors, including the National Academy of Sciences
Initiatives in Research Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, three honorary
Doctorates (University of Caen, University of Paris Descartes, Bern University),
and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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ENDORSEMENTS

"While the threats that AI platforms like ChatGPT pose to education have been
very clear, the benefits have, for most educators, been harder to recognize, let
alone implement. Kosslyn does a masterful job of laying out how AI can be used
to support deep student learning, beginning with broad principles, then
providing supporting details, all the way down to specific examples of prompts
for lessons. This book not only has ready utility, it is an inspiration.”

 

Daniel T. Willingham, Professor of Psychology, University of Virginia           
    

“One of the world’s foremost experts on the science of learning, Stephen Kosslyn
has written the book we need at this important moment to guide the use of
generative AI in ways that will improve teaching and learning.

Teressa A. Cannon, Founding President, Minerva University

“In this timely book, Stephen Kosslyn synthesizes what's been established about
effective teaching and learning -- and then demonstrates how to mobilize this
knowledge in the world of ChatGPT and other Large Language Models.”

Howard Gardner, Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard
Graduate School of Education

"Get a cup of coffee, your favorite Generative AI program, and Kosslyn's
meet-the-moment book. You will be captivated by exercising the mind-blowing
examples of what you and AI can do together to support learners.”

Dan Schwartz, Dean, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
 

“The recent emergence of AI tools such as ChatGPT has potentially profound
implications for education. Combining his expertise in cognitive psychology,
hands-on experience as an educator, and engagement with AI, Stephen Kosslyn has
provided an invaluable guide for fellow educators seeking to navigate this new
terrain.  I can't think of anyone else better suited to the task, and Kosslyn
has delivered admirably with this timely, clearly written, and pragmatic
volume.”

Daniel L. Schacter, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Psychology, Harvard
University, and author of The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and
Remembers.


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