ISBN: 9798246775981 - white mirror: how ai can help education reflect a better future (7 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. White Mirror: How AI can Help Education Reflect a Better Future opens with a deliberately absurd image: an Uber driver is gifted a pristine, top-of-the-line self-driving car-maintenance-free, indefinitely-and still chooses to keep driving passengers in an old, battered vehicle. Not because it's better, but because it's familiar. Because changing the vehicle would require changing the story.That metaphor becomes the book's lens on education's response to generative AI. The technology arrives as a once-in-a-lifetime gift-capable of supporting feedback, revision, differentiation, language support, and practice at scale. And yet the first reflex, in many places, is not possibility but fear: bans, restrictions, policy memos, "AI detection" tools, and a surveillance mindset that quietly institutionalizes distrust. The system enters an arms race with its own students, as if the purpose of schooling were to outwit the people it claims to serve.White Mirror argues that AI did not create education's crisis. It exposed it. A mirror doesn't invent flaws; it reflects them. When routines are built around compliance, coverage, and performance, AI makes the hollowness harder to ignore-because outputs can be replicated instantly. The question then changes. It is no longer "How do we stop students from using AI?" but "What kinds of learning remain meaningful when output is cheap?"This is not a book of hacks or prompts. It is a calm, human-centered reflection that refuses both extremes-neither dystopian panic nor techno-salvation. It treats AI as a white mirror, a deliberate inversion of the familiar "black mirror" metaphor: instead of an omen, a reflection of what becomes possible when the response is guided by purpose and courage rather than denial.A key distinction runs throughout: AI can function as cognitive extension-helping learners think better, go further, revise more deeply-or it can become a cognitive prosthetic, quietly outsourcing the thinking education is meant to develop. Cheating is an ethical problem; cognitive atrophy is an existential one. The deeper cultural risk is "good enough" instant, plausible outputs that can replace the productive struggle that builds judgment and depth.From there, White Mirror moves toward action without losing its philosophical spine: a staged roadmap for adoption, the redesign of assessment, and the "human imperative"-the capacities that become more valuable precisely because machines can generate content. At its core is an invitation to stop covering the mirror and to redesign what the mirror reveals: learning built around meaning, discernment, and human relationship.Inside the bookThe "gift of a lifetime" problem: why transformative tools trigger institutional denialFrom opportunity to surveillance: bans, detection, and the hidden cost of distrustThe white mirror metaphor: what AI reveals about schooling's incentivesCognitive extension vs cognitive prosthetic: thinking better vs thinking lessThe "good enough" effect and why it changes school culture and workRedesigning assessment in an AI world: authenticity without authoritarian theatreTruth, bias, and discernment: education's new literacy challengeA staged roadmap for adoption and the "human imperative" in an automated world This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. …

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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. White Mirror: How AI can Help Education Reflect a Better Future opens with a deliberately absurd image: an Uber driver is gifted a pristine, top-of-the-line self-driving car-maintenance-free, indefinitely-and still chooses to keep driving passengers in an old, battered vehicle. Not because it's better, but because it's familiar. Because changing the vehicle would require changing the story.That metaphor becomes the book's lens on education's response to generative AI. The technology arrives as a once-in-a-lifetime gift-capable of supporting feedback, revision, differentiation, language support, and practice at scale. And yet the first reflex, in many places, is not possibility but fear: bans, restrictions, policy memos, "AI detection" tools, and a surveillance mindset that quietly institutionalizes distrust. The system enters an arms race with its own students, as if the purpose of schooling were to outwit the people it claims to serve.White Mirror argues that AI did not create education's crisis. It exposed it. A mirror doesn't invent flaws; it reflects them. When routines are built around compliance, coverage, and performance, AI makes the hollowness harder to ignore-because outputs can be replicated instantly. The question then changes. It is no longer "How do we stop students from using AI?" but "What kinds of learning remain meaningful when output is cheap?"This is not a book of hacks or prompts. It is a calm, human-centered reflection that refuses both extremes-neither dystopian panic nor techno-salvation. It treats AI as a white mirror, a deliberate inversion of the familiar "black mirror" metaphor: instead of an omen, a reflection of what becomes possible when the response is guided by purpose and courage rather than denial.A key distinction runs throughout: AI can function as cognitive extension-helping learners think better, go further, revise more deeply-or it can become a cognitive prosthetic, quietly outsourcing the thinking education is meant to develop. Cheating is an ethical problem; cognitive atrophy is an existential one. The deeper cultural risk is "good enough" instant, plausible outputs that can replace the productive struggle that builds judgment and depth.From there, White Mirror moves toward action without losing its philosophical spine: a staged roadmap for adoption, the redesign of assessment, and the "human imperative"-the capacities that become more valuable precisely because machines can generate content. At its core is an invitation to stop covering the mirror and to redesign what the mirror reveals: learning built around meaning, discernment, and human relationship.Inside the bookThe "gift of a lifetime" problem: why transformative tools trigger institutional denialFrom opportunity to surveillance: bans, detection, and the hidden cost of distrustThe white mirror metaphor: what AI reveals about schooling's incentivesCognitive extension vs cognitive prosthetic: thinking better vs thinking lessThe "good enough" effect and why it changes school culture and workRedesigning assessment in an AI world: authenticity without authoritarian theatreTruth, bias, and discernment: education's new literacy challengeA staged roadmap for adoption and the "human imperative" in an automated world This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. …