Yeah, All This 'AI' In Your Edtech Product, Bub... What's It REALLY Do?

Published: July 17, 2019, 7 a.m.

In a wide-ranging conversation, \u2018Learning Is The New Working\u2019 sits down with Dr Stella Lee, a Vancouver-based Digital Learning Strategist, Educator, Writer, Public Speaker, Networker and Canadian edtech startup advisor. If you wanted to design a curriculum vitae to produce an expert in Workplace Learning tech and social trends, I honestly don\u2019t see how you\u2019d do better than Stella has - and so it was a great privilege to work with her through key Workplace Learning issues, including: what her career Venn Diagram looks like - and what\u2019s at the \u2018sweet spot\u2019 in that busy middle intersection; what the specific geography, demographic and cultural factors north of the US border in that big old lovely country up there mean for skills; what five generations in the Workplace might soon be looking like; what Canadians are doing about it - and what we might do well to keep track of (\u2018Brave New Work,\u2019 anyone?); the central role in serious AI of ethics and diversity - and why we should be a tad reserved about all the wild claims we hear from \u2018AI-Powered\u2019 Learning systems; why we might not really want smart fitness devices, do we really need Big Data in L&D, why we get so stressed about the LMS-LXP debate but everyone in the Third World just uses WhatsApp - and much more.