Michigan Virtual ASU GSV Summit recap

Michigan virtual has a team that attended the ASU GSV summit. Now Arizona State University a highly regarded educational institution teamed up with Global Silicon Valley, which is an investor group, bringing together seven thousand participants including the education sector, technology innovators, and entrepreneurs. To put heads together and talk about what is new in and learning and change is coming fast. Now of the seven thousand people, Michigan had a good show up here at this conference. We were able to learn from people the likes of Bill Gates, Sal Khan, Arnie Duncan, Michael Horn, and my personal favorite was a social emotional lesson on mindfulness and deep breathing delivered by Elmo the muppet. We learned about prompt writing for artificial intelligence, how to use it wisely. We also learned about problem solving and curiosity. And how vocational identity is so important for the jobs that are still being created, but to let kids in k twelve as well as beyond, experience how knowledge and skills really need to be set up for the jobs they wanna do. Reflecting on the ASU GSP summon, I'm coming back with three big takeaways. First, every country on Earth has a growing skills gap, and it's becoming critical for most nations, including the United States. Two, the advantage we've had here in the US regarding access to education and training is shrinking rapidly, and three, AI technologies represents a massive change for the human race, not just for our educational systems, and I believe these new tools will be more impactful than the printing press radio and television combined. Good morning, everyone. I'm here with doctor Thomas Bruce from Barian things, and we're at the ASU GSP conference. And we just talked this morning about the opportunity for so many Michigan leaders to be here. Doctor Bruce, your thoughts on the opportunity for Mission and Virtual, the partnership, and just being at this conference in particular. Well, you know, with FLC, everything's about what learning could be or what the learning environment could be. We just got done listening to Salkon, talk about what education could look like in the future. How AI would be part of that and really about making the teaching environment and the environment for teachers better. So really interesting stuff you know, it's amazing. Just the opportunity to be in this conversation, I think. This isn't one we get to have back in Michigan. So to be here and have access to people I think. It's just such a game changer for us as educators and and those who are pushing the conversation in Michigan. So thumbs up to Michigan virtual, thumbs up to the council members that have made the commitment to be here, and excited to be a part of it. Yes. Great time. Thank you. As Michigan virtual and the Michigan virtual learning research institute, we work hard to help educators in Michigan envision a new future. One of the great things about taking a cohort out to ASU GSV Summit every year is the opportunity for them to actually see where people are putting strategic bets on the future of education and educational technology. Educators do not believe it until they see it. And this is one of those showcases where you can look at the long term policy technology pedagogical practices, the bets that are being placed on those, and allows them to get their heads wrapped around kind of the future of learning and where it's going and how they can bring that back to Michigan and implement it in a way that will set them up for long successes schools. It's this partnership with ASU GSV Summit and GSV Ventures around getting educators there and giving them a voice, an agency, and that process of how their world is being disrupted by these great technology innovations like AI and web three is critically important to the future of Michigan and the future of learning both nationally and internationally. We're living in an ever changing world. Technology adoption has created so many new types of business opportunities, different types of ways of interacting with your customers, get an education we haven't seen that change happen as dramatically. ASU GSV summit is one of the showcases that educators can go to and actually see that change in progress in real time in a way that's driving, thinking around future of learning.