And hast thou slain the Jabberwock?

Rewilding the Network – Making New Connections invites to rethink digital and educational spaces as living ecosystems. Instead of tightly managed, centralized systems…

Thus begins ChatGPT’s answer to a prompt. It helped me muse on what I want to say, even before I manage to express it, and helped me connect the “open” with the “rewilding” within educational (and digital?) spaces.

It appears as AI may help me like a guide, an “illuminated spirit”. But wait: to assume legitimately the role of a tutor or agent to discuss with and ponder, should it not be endowed with a real comprehension of what it is saying? However, one central question of education is precisely: What does comprehension mean? This is actually an optimal circumstance to discuss such issues and concepts on a broad level in our institutions and here at Reclaim Open.

Should I be conversing with AI? Is it ethical? Is it sane? Should I ask AI to evaluate students’ works–or should I not? These questions are profound and are given special attention on the press and academic circles. In short, we all have some questions and anxiety —but also fascination—over AI and this is a powerful “platform” to discuss them.

Plus, I have managed to create a couple of applications for my courses—or better, I managed to guide an AI to do it–  and I found it to be a fascinating process. I would like to share here a few examples, including one derived from the notorious “Daily challenges” that Alan Levine designed.