If you browse through articles posted on this blog since 2006 you'll see many examples of interns taking this role. I continue to encourage high schools and colleges to set up formal programs where students learn to do this as part of an active community-building effort, focused on the area surrounding the campus where they are located.
Last week a retired college professor from Western Kentucky demonstrated this. The graphic below is from a blog article he posted. Included in the article was a podcast where two people discuss the material Terry was reviewing.
In his article Terry introduced me to an artificial intelligence tool called Google Notebook LM. The podcast has a man and a woman talking about the information being reviewed. They sound real. In fact, I had to ask Terry if they were real. No.
In his article Terry introduced me to an artificial intelligence tool called Google Notebook LM. The podcast has a man and a woman talking about the information being reviewed. They sound real. In fact, I had to ask Terry if they were real. No.
I tested this over the weekend, asking it to look at some of my blog articles. Yesterday I asked it to look at two article I'd written in past years about the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday.
I posted the notes created by this review in this article on the Tutor/Mentor blog. In it, I included a link to the podcast where that material is discussed.
The podcasts have some inaccuracies. They often over-state what I've been doing and add in extra thoughts that were not part of the blog articles being reviewed, and were not part of any work I've been able to do.
Yet, they demonstrate a long-term goal, that groups of people would look at the information I share and start discussions that create a better understanding, and support actions that build and sustain youth-serving programs in high poverty areas of Chicago and other places with concentrations of persistent poverty.
I encourage you to test this out. On the www.tutormentorexchange.net website are links to blogs, videos, PDF essays, past newsletters, etc. that I've created since 1993.
They were seen by too few people. You can bring them to life and to more people and perhaps create the movement needed that changes what communities, businesses, philanthropy and government does to make high quality, mentor-rich programs available in more places.
They were seen by too few people. You can bring them to life and to more people and perhaps create the movement needed that changes what communities, businesses, philanthropy and government does to make high quality, mentor-rich programs available in more places.
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