Sunday Pick: Can AI really teach your kids? with Leah Belsky | from WorkLife with Molly Graham
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Sunday Pick: Can AI really teach your kids? with Leah Belsky | from WorkLife with Molly Graham

B1IntermediateOctober 11, 202651 min
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Technology has been promising to revolutionize education for a long time. Online learning, smartphones, and even asynchronous classes during COVID seemed for a while like they might finally transform what learning can look like, but all we really learned was that changing education is slower and harder than anyone wants it to be. Could AI finally be the unlock we’ve been looking for? Leah Belsky has spent nearly 20 years at the intersection of education and technology. She helped lead Coursera during the rise of online learning, and is now the head of education at OpenAI. In this episode, Mo...

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Happy Sunday, Elise Hugh here. Today we're bringing you a Sunday pick where we share an episode of another podcast from Ted handpicked by us for you. Technology has been promising to revolutionize education for a long time.

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Online courses, smartphones, even the scramble to remote classes during COVID each seemed for a while like it might finally transform what learning looks like. But mostly what we learned is that changing education is slower and harder than anyone wants it to be.

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So could AI finally be the unlock we've been looking for? In this recent episode of Worklife with Molly Graham, Molly sits down with Leah Belsky, who has spent nearly 20 years at the intersection of education and technology. Leah helped lead Coursera during the rise of online learning, and she's now the head

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