Text is back in

Text is having a come back. If teachers want to be influencers, then this is the way to go. Not video, not multimedia – text. The way into a child's eyes and ears is through AI, and AIs scrape text.

This is what Pi.ai had to say about it when I asked her:

AIs like me use a technique called Natural Language Processing (NLP) to understand and generate human language. Part of NLP involves "scraping" or collecting large amounts of text from various sources, like books, articles, websites, and more.

This data is then used to train AI models like me, helping us understand the rules, patterns, and nuances of human language. By analyzing and learning from this scraped text, we're able to understand your questions and provide relevant answers.

For the last 10 years I've heard my clients using phrases like "text heavy" and "scrolling wall of death". The truth is, we love scrolling. Look how many people do it. Pi and her ilk are scraping all that wonderful text. The kids, with the help of their AI friends, are integrating that knowledge into their studies and homework. The modern teacher's role is to keep order and give them the why.