Discussing Leadership and the future of learning with Gus Schmedlen

Is AI the future of teaching?
 
Technology has become necessary for learning, especially during the New Normal. In this episode of In the Back Room, our guest Gus Schmedlen talks with us about the future of learning. He serves as President & Chief Revenue Officer at Merlyn Mind. He formerly served as Vice President and Head of Worldwide Education at HP, where he oversaw a period of rapid expansion, leading to creating a multi-billion-dollar global education technology business. During his tenure at HP, Gus also led international efforts to improve access to quality education for students in marginalized contexts, contributing innovation, support, and scale. Earlier in his career, Gus led education and public sector industry solutions units for IBM and Lenovo.
 
A company from North Carolina did a study and found that an average school district uses 1,400 different apps per month. This indicates that we live in this era of the forced digitalization of education. And unfortunately, the people that bear the brunt of all these complexities are teachers. So instead of looking to replace the unreplaceable teaching job, Merlyn Mind built a digital assistant that is contextual to teachers. They created an AI that uses the language of teachers and does what teachers do in the classroom. They made an AI that unlocks utilities across the spectrum of student information systems and, naturally, learning management systems.

A professor at Bowdoin College called Doris Santoro wrote a book called Demoralized. The book is about how teachers are becoming demoralized. It’s not just because they’re overworked or burnt out, but because they’re making fewer decisions about what they teach and how they teach it.
 
 
Learn more about Gus Schmedlen on:
LinkedIn:https://www.linkedin.com/in/schmedlen/
Website: https://www.merlyn.org/
 
Learn more about HP in Education: https://www.hp.com/us-en/solutions/education/overview.htmlLearn more about Vonage:  https://www.vonage.comLearn more about Lenovo in Education: https://techtoday.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/education
Learn more about Connection Public Sector Solutions in Education: https://www.govconnection.com/public-sector/k-12-education?cm_sp=MegaMenu-_-Industries-_-K12Ed