Lise's Lens: March 26, 2026

 

For Monday’s professional development day with faculty and staff, we were pleased to welcome Dan Be Kim from the Center for Digital Thriving at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Dan Be’s work sits at the intersection of education, ethics, and emerging technologies, and she came to us to share her insights on approaching AI within an educational context. While illness prevented me from attending the entire presentation (I am still so upset about this!), I got to listen in on the introduction and have heard from my colleagues that it was an incredibly informative day. One thing about Dan Be’s presentation that really resonated was her urging to move away from a binary framing of AI as simply “good” or “bad.” Instead, we were invited to sit in the nuance, to ask difficult questions, and learn to navigate uncertainty with intention. There was something quietly reassuring in the message that it is not only acceptable, but healthy, to feel somewhere in the middle, because that is often where the most meaningful learning happens.