PeoplePowered AI for Learning: Collaborative Cohorts - Force Multipliers and Accelerants

[seanpmcclean]

Right now, it seems like everyone is either:

• 🪄treating AI like Gandalf’s staff, ready to take on a Balrog
• 👀side-eyeing AI like Clippy from 1999. . . 

But when it comes to studying (or certifying, or developing skills), the real power move might instead be:

                                          Using AI together.  In Collaboration. As a Team.

What I’m proposing is possibly a middle ground: It’s a thing that I feel is incredibly powerful - and incredibly missed.  What I’m NOT seeing as much of is people using AI together.  In Collaboration. As a Team.

I’ve proposed the value of collaborative learning for cert prep a lot - in many other times and forums and classes.  But combining this collaborative model - using AI together becomes a force multiplier - teaming up can help you:

• 🎛️Tune the prompt with collaborative contexts, ideas and drives
• ✅Check and discuss implications, ethics and possible outcomes
• ✍️Collaboratively interpret responses and outputs

So why not use these two (AI and teaming) together? A group of accountable, similarly motivated, similarly interested people (in learning) helping each other learn, prepare, study for certificates - Using AI as a tool. . . an accelerant for that learning that can more quickly:

• Develop examples and scenarios
• Draft simplified explanations of complex concepts using a team perspective
• Evaluate success and steer study-group progress and focus
• Steer towards the best study resources

I’ve been lucky enough to experiment with this with people like @Benjamin Forrest-green and @Stacy Bailey and others in our Katalytic Collaborative Speak Easy (KCSE) with some success, but I’m seeing similar efforts (and successes) popping up in other places, but it still feels like this is a resource untapped.  Underutilized.

So here’s my challenge:

If you’re prepping for a ServiceNow certification, or diving into a new area on the platform, or just trying to level up - don’t do it alone.  And don’t use AI alone either.

Pair up.  Team up.  Cohort up.  

And use AI as an accelerant.  And post in the comments if or how YOU are doing this. What’s working best?  What’s not?