David Bowie offered a timeless warning to all educators. When speaking about our students, and the inevitability of change, he suggests they may ‘be immune to your consultations...they’re quite aware what they’re going through’. Education gets a little more complicated with each passing year, and educators need to continually adjust to remain relevant. With the aftershocks of a global pandemic reverberating, overnight generative artificial intelligence (or GenAI), most notably Chat GPT, has dominated the headlines and many of our educational conversations. How are educators and schools supposed to adjust to the reality that computer platforms and robots can perform tasks typically reserved for intelligent beings – us! How might we need to adjust our purpose for learning? Could AI help teachers engineer environments rich with inquiry? What are ways we might redesign assessments considering new technologies? Perhaps we need to rewind a little through history to look for clues as to how to manage change and adapt to new technologies, all the while striving to deliver what students and communities need (and want). With a clear sense of who we are, the service we provide, and the quest to model adaptability, perhaps we can heed Bowie's warning and look at technology and change with a little less trepidation and a lot more confidence.
