I’m incredibly excited to invite you to a Blursday-style conversation with Microsoft’s Mike Mast and Google’s Kris Snover about AI, EdTech interoperability standards, and the opportunities the two present together for creating learning impact. This conversation, now under the umbrella of 1EdTech Labs, represents everything I’ve been striving for over the past 20 years, from e-Literate to the Empirical Educator Project to my paid work.
We are in a moment where we have a lot to figure out. I have always believed that the best way to do so is through sense-making in an action-oriented coalition. 1EdTech has the power to build action-oriented coalitions that I never had on my own. Kris and Mike, two human beings I respect, representing massive companies that know a lot about tech and less about education, are coming to the 1EdTech community, offering help, asking for reciprocal expertise, and looking to collaborate. They will be suggesting a specific idea to the 1EdTech community for community-wide, action-oriented exploration. While the community will decide what it works on, I’m throwing my personal +1 behind this one because it’s exactly what I would have suggested myself.
The frame of the conversation is Model Context Protocol (MCP), a technical standard that enables us to provide an AI model with context, including educational context. What does this mean for education? How should we use it? What are the precautions we need to put in place? Nobody knows the answers to these questions yet. Rather than talking endlessly about them while the industry marches forward without us, 1EdTech is convening its community to move forward together through collaborative experiments. Who has ideas about where we can start? Who has help to offer? These are the questions we put to our community. Mike and Kris put their heads together and came up with…something you should come to the webinar to hear.
This will be a highly interactive conversation. We need your voice. Please come.
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