Mindset Buffet

Have you ever come across conflicting parenting theories? Children need discipline; without it, they may become unruly. But they also need freedom—parents should focus on being good role models and giving them space to grow. Screen time should be limited to prevent addiction. But restricting it too much might make children want to play even more. The best approach is to guide them toward self-regulation. Don’t yell at your child, or they’ll learn to communicate by yelling. But emotions need to be expressed—adults get angry too. The key is learning how to calm down and repair relationships afterward. Reading to children helps develop a reading habit. But whether a child falls in love with books isn’t necessarily determined by whether parents read to them. With so many theories—some even contradicting each other—parents often feel lost, struggling to find the right balance. Yet childhood is irreversible; once a moment is missed or a mistake is made, there is no way to rewind time. I...

I don’t know how other teachers feel about AI, but let me tell you—I jigged and whistled when ChatGPT translated an article in seconds that would have taken me two or three hours ! Then, it crafted a story from my prompt instantly . Wow. How powerful is this?! And suddenly—I felt powerful too. Not threatened. Empowered. The possibilities are limitless! And naturally, a question arose in my mind: 💡 What and how do we learn to make sense of this new AI age? Rethinking Learning in an AI-Powered World Karen Brennan, director of the Creative Computing Lab at Harvard Graduate School of Education, put it perfectly in an interview: “In K–12 and in higher education, some of the anxiety around generative AI and potential misuse has been around a realization that maybe we are asking learners to engage in work that isn’t actually particularly powerful or meaningful. If a machine could do it, what does it mean to be asking students of all ages to be doing it?” Exactly! If AI can do it, why do we...