There’s nothing so pleasant as to casually flipping through social media (e.g. LinkedIn) and run across something like:

Miguel Guhlin from TCEA has developed what I consider to be the gold standard for educational innovation evaluation. On September 20, 2024, TCEA’s TechNotes blog published Mr. Guhlin’s SHINE framework. 

Derek Reinhold shares key concepts (read his blog entry) and points out:

In order for a school to embrace educational innovation while remaining true to its purpose…in order for a school to avoid the world’s tendency to “chase the newest shiny object”…it’s necessary to have a framework for considering innovations.

In my original blog entry on this topic, I wrote:

It might be helpful to apply SHINE to three categories of AI-powered tools. These are finding their way into schools under the guise of productivity or cheating. The categories include:

• Teacher Helper Tool, such as Eduaide, Khanmigo, MagicSchool
• AI Chatbot for Writing. Examples include ChatGPT, Pressto, Claude
• Quiz Tools like Quizlet Plus, Quizizz AI, QuizWizard

It’s appropriate to use co-Gen AI generated tools and frameworks to analyze other Gen AI tools.

Framework Design with Gen AI

Developing frameworks with Gen AI assistance, a back-n-forth, interactive conversation where you guide the Gen AI to put together something useful…that’s part of the rewarding work involved in using Gen AI. But what also has to be true is the recognition that the SHINE is put together in collaboration with Gen AI, but guided by that internal compass every human being has.

Since I rely on Gen AI every day, it’s so important to develop that compass that guides your own sense of what works, and what does not. You can then use it to steer where Gen AI goes as you seek to use a probabilistic word generator until you get the desired result.