The AI vicious cycle (REVISED)

Yesterday James Bedford reached out to me, noting that my AI vicious cycle was very similar to his AI Wheel of Death and asking me to give him proper attribution. Of course I was immediately horrified that I might have misappropriated James’ intellectual property…

Here’s the thing: I had never seen James’ image of last September until he sent me a link!

I said to James:

Thanks for sharing. I have heard a number of educators articulating [verbally] the ideas that were encapsulated in my wheel, which is why I finally decided to just make it. We all are struggling with how to keep the humanity in learning and teaching. I’m guessing that somewhere along the chain you helped spark those ideas that are now bouncing around the educational ecosphere. As Dean Shareski has noted, we are all derivatives of others’ brilliance and sharing. 

I always want to give attribution where it’s due. I’ve changed both the blog post and the graphic. See if this will work for you?

In this post, I have included the new version of my AI vicious cycle, and I also modified my original blog post and image. Please use this new image instead of my old one (and give a shout out to James too!). I also encourage you to check out James’ articles and media. He is sharing lots of good stuff!

There are so many ideas and images floating around out there, and sometimes it is extremely difficult to know where something came from, even for those of us who consider ourselves savvy Internet and social media veterans. Mistakes and oversights happen. But if we have a chance to make it right, we always should do so.

Thank you, James, for the graciousness with which you approached me, and for sparking some great educator conversations that somehow, over the many months, eventually made their way to me (even if I didn’t know it!).