Strategic Change Playbook: AI in Education

• The playbook is based on the bestselling book "Infinite Education: The Four-Step Strategy for Leading Change in the Age of Artificial Intelligence"
• The book provides a roadmap for educators to navigate the integration of Artificial and human intelligence in schools

Introduction to Strategic Change Playbook

• The Strategic Change Playbook is a guide designed to support transformation in schools
• Its aim is to shift mindsets and reshape education for an AI-augmented future
• Balancing demands of present, past practices, and creating the future through strategic innovation
• The playbook equips communities to lead lasting change through four steps: scope, shape strategic message, influence people, and align people
• It helps implement the Three Box Solution: manage present, let go of past, and create the future

Role of Leadership

• Balancing current systems, abandoning outdated methods, and investing in non-linear innovation is important in leadership
• Singular focus on the present leads to stagnation
• Singularly focusing on the future risks instability
• Neglecting the past traps schools in practices that do not serve missions
• Leadership requires agility, vision, and a willingness to confront hard truths

Audience of the Playbook

• The playbook is for anyone shaping the future of education
• Current leaders can use the book to secure a legacy of innovation
• Emerging leaders can use the book to develop skills to lead in an AI-driven world
• The book helps develop tools and confidence for leading change

How The Playbook Works

• Part One helps shift mindset from a finite to infinite view of education, and is for individual or peer team tasks
• Part Two is designed for accelerator group work

Chapter 1: From Finite to Infinite Education

• Traditional education focuses on short-term goals such as grades
• Infinite education encourages continuous learning, creativity, and personal development
• The current educational system limits innovation by prioritizing memorization
• AI is crucial for enabling infinite education by offering personalized learning experiences, and real-time feedback
• The City Schools model reimagines education by using entire cities as learning environments
• Moving toward infinite education requires redefining success and incorporating AI-driven tools

Task 1: Finite vs Infinite Thinking Audit

• Objective is to identify finite elements within schools which can be transformed into infinite opportunities
• A rigid teaching method may be lecturing to a large group of students, whereas an interactive method may be personalized projects tailored to each student
• Limited student leadership may be seen as students not involved in decision-making, whereas greater student leadership may be a student advisory board
• Follow-up questions include; what barriers might prevent change?, How can said barriers be overcome?

Task 2: Reimagining a School as a City School

• Identify local resources such as natural, human, economic, cultural and heritage etc
• Identify real-world problems associated with resources
• Think about ways to create units of work around a key question based on local resources
• Consider different viewpoints and how these may aide design

5 Questions for Infinite Minds

• How can we shift our focus from winning eg achieving high test scores to ensuring education is a lifelong journey?
• How can we play with boundaries instead of within them by creating more flexible adapted curriculums which evolve with student needs?
• How can we nurture a culture which values ongoing change, by recognizing that only that which can change can continue?
• How can we introduce more innovative methods of assessment that don't just measure what a student knows?
• How can we ensure all education practices equip students with all the skills to win in the short term, but thrive in the long term?

Chapter 2 - Artificial Intelligence And The Origin Of A New Species

• AI is challenging our whole understanding of education
• AI is more than just a tool and is becoming an integral part of everyday life
• There are now brain-computer interfaces which mean AI can interact with the human brain
• Active leaders and teacher need to shape the future of AI now

Task 1: The Mirror Thought Experiment

• AI can mirror the intentions, biases, and behaviors of its creators
• You should first list different positive traits, and negative traits of humanity an AI should reflect
• You should then consider; how can the school teach AI to amplify positive traits, and migrates risks?

Task 2: The Future Artifact Challenge

• Time travel 20 years form now and discover an artifact from school, what does the future hold?
• You should reflect on factors such as; How AI has shaped culture on school?, What are the unexpected consequences?
• What insights can teachers take from these factors in the present to ensure better outcome?

Task 3: The Ethics Hackathon

• Solve ethical, cultural, and operation issues, arising from AI integrated into education
• You should consider AI related challenges such as bias, automation, and privacy
• Brainstorm solutions, develop basic policy points, and draft simple action plains

4 Questions for Infinite Minds

• How do we nurture human potential?
• How do we cultivate human creativity?
• What vital skills become important when faced with AI companions?
• How can we ensure AI reflections our best selves?

Chapter 3: Humanity In A World Of Artificial Intelligence

• Human collection remains irreplaceable as technology advances
• Must embrace imperfection
• As AI handles more information we must redefine success to wisdom, creativity and purpose
• As we embrace AI capabilities, we must commmitt placing human connection at the forefront
• Do this by developing a clear actionable charter that enhances relationship creativity etc

Task 1: The Human-Centered Al Charter

• The aim of this task to enhance human aspects of AI integration
• Gather insights and reflect on AI being used in schools
• Define key principles to guide AI such as enhancement, not replacement
• You need to keep any charters to be concise, no more than 1 page
• Ensure action is orrientated in AI such as specifi teachers will review AI-Generated content before using it in assessments.

Task 2: Reimagining Success In An Al World

• Shift focus from knowledge squisition to more wisdom
• Audit current success metrics - reflect on the AI driven world
• Reserach more alternative systems such as project based, social emotional learning etc.
• Pilot the new success metric, work with teachers and collect feedback

5 Reflection Questions

• Radically reimagine to our greatest asset to put relationships at the heart of learning
• How to focus on a world where AI can instantly provide information?
• Harness the power of storytelling to create learning that resonates profoundly
• What if standardizes testing becomes absolete
• How in the future where you can collaborate intimitaly do you make sense of purpose?

Chapter 4: Finding Purpose In An IKEA World

• It is essential to nurture all students creative skills
• AI Is revolutionizing mass production
• Must focus education through passion and critical thinking

Task 1: Personal Ikigai Reflection For Leadership

• Align personal leadership with driving education and create on Ikigai Diagram
• Identify how current leasership approaches align with the work

5 Reflection Questions

• Embed lkaigal principles
• What innovative assessment stratefes can you adopt on prioritze
• In what ways can we intergate AI to personalise learning?
• We can creatre fromms taht foster skills and craftsmen ship
• What leadership practicces to to utilise tech

Chapter 5: A System in Need of Reform

• The core current education is obselete
• Focus of education should shift, crtically thinking and adaptability
• There is a rising riseing number of disengagement

Task 1: Exprementing With Decentalised Learning

• Explire and implent a deventralise learning model in scool
• Choose one deventralise education model to study
• Reflect, with what aspects of the models could be tested without systemtatic change?

Task 2: Questions to ask

• How could the AI era look like

Chapter 6 - Rethinking School

• Recognize and dismantle unhelpful schooling patterns
• Need for schools to focus on emotional intelligence and ethical reasoning
• Chapter advocates or assessment which motivate students
• Educators must evolve from knowledge to critical thinking

5 Reflection Questions

• Cultivatate curous to the hiddden curriculm
• Steps can take to shift that from standardized knowledgr?
• Considereing the model success of XP School in the Deep relationships
• Can we cultivate intrinsic motivation?
• As information that can be accessed through AI, how to know more facilitates ?

Chapter 7 - A New Learning Paradigm

• Value creation is the new currnecy
• Shift more from knowledge, the shift to adpaptable = Embrace "Humans of the Infinate" Task: Map how your personal devlopment impacts you long term career

Step 1: Reflection DRIVERS Growth Journey

• Recievie a message form self
• See how they have shaped the journey

Chapter 8 - Barriers to Innovation

• Overoming physcological barriers is an innovation
• Levarging AI To support educational challenges The objective: recognise and break innovations

1 Identitfy your own innovation blockers

What improvement did you not act on Ask self 2 The Gold decsision Choose small experiements with 48 hours 3 Debrief and expand did many bad things Challenge your teamHold a small innovateion at the same time On the the other results Step 2 from from fixedness education Objective , challenge outdated ways

1 Fine one Sancrned to challenge 2 Protype a radical 3 Evalute in long terms 5 reflection on

How we adapt ways to a unpredictable fitures

Chapter 9 - Surviving t he Liminal Space

Al's impact is still un folding But Al still holds strong power Al is a tool of re invention

Task 1 Al Disruption walk Observe the challenges in these assuptions

What are the human centered, and how ?

Task 2 Al conversation dinners Engace people and paremts and students

Step 1, invite key leaders Step 2 after, turn isight by piloted Step 3 After. dinner what did you learnt next steps educated community

5 Reflection Questions , what have we learnt form innovation How can lead to a new age?

Chapter 10 - Why Strategy Always Comes FIrst

Shaping the future not the past is imprtant Need to support long term goals

1, Think it over 2 How would be adjusted to be true 3 Conisider the challenge 4 Make to make a long term impact 5 Take 2 - Objective: