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AI-Assisted Music Teaching: Ryan Stahle on Better Prompts, Better Teaching, and Where to Draw the Line
From Music Ed Insights · Hosted by Steve Shanley
Episode summary
In this episode of Music Ed Insights: Alan and Steve talk with veteran South Dakota music educator Ryan Stahle about moving beyond using artificial intelligence as a glorified search engine and actually learning to talk with it. Ryan shares practical examples from his own teaching, including creating targeted warm-ups, speeding up student feedback, organizing individual lessons, and even building tools to solve problems he hadn’t expected AI could solve. But the conversation also gets into the harder questions.
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Alan and Steve talk with veteran South Dakota music educator Ryan Stahle about moving beyond using artificial intelligence as a glorified search engine and actually learning to talk with it. Ryan shares practical examples from his own teaching, including creating targeted warm-ups, speeding up student feedback, organizing individual lessons, and even building tools to solve problems he hadn’t expected AI could solve. But the conversation also gets into the harder questions. What should stay human? When should teachers disclose that AI helped create something? What student information should never go into an AI tool? And if we’re comfortable using AI to design a website but uncomfortable when it writes music, are we being entirely consistent? Ryan, Alan, and Steve explore how music teachers can make use of these tools without surrendering the judgment, creativity, and relationships that make teaching human.