Teaching with AI: strategies against cheating
Bryan Alexander's summary of the current state of the academic integrity trench war is conscience and comprehensive, describing the advantages and disadvantages of each approach
AI & LLMs Teaching & Education
Edison Schools - District POlicy Acceptable use of Generative AI
Some NJ school districts have a district policy like this one from Edison
Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Schools
Helpful for schools to think about when approaching AI, though not immediately transferable to instructional design
AI competency framework for students
UNESCO's guide define 12 competencies across four dimensions (human centered mindset, ethics of AI, AI techniques and applications, and AI system design. Worth looking at quickly to see how it aligns with other similar documents. It's probably best for stressing human agency.
Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations
The same teachers tell students that they should never steal anyone else's work are using AI tools that are built on mountains of stolen work. The moral equation of using AI needs to be acknowledged
Ai guidance classroom considerations
Teacher to Teacher: Is AI reshaping education for the better? - Unesco
This brief 8 minute conversation between two teachers reveals how much more useful it is to hear teachers talk about AI then the professional talkers in commercial media
Santa Ana Unified School District AI Guide
How Early Adopter Districts Are Moving Ahead Fast With AI — and Getting It Right
New analysis from the Center on Reinventing Public Education finds districts in Georgia, California and Washington that prioritize artificial intelligence for the students who need it most.
GCPS Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Gwinnett County Public Schools
A district guide for AI from Gwinnett County Georgia that addresses the broad spectrum of AI applications and implications for learning
New Research Finds Schools of Education Fail to Prepare Teachers to Use AI – The 74
This opinion piece notes how schools of education are not preparing teachers for AI though forward thinking superintendents are.
Judge tosses authors' AI training copyright lawsuit against Meta
Administrators and teachers should read this article to get just a taste of the litigation associated with the massive libraries of books, articles and essays used to train LLMs for AI tools. More thought should be invested in the difference between teaching students that stealing text is wrong and using tools built on stolen text
Writing with A.I.: An English professor makes the case for the unexpected.
Generative AI & Your Teaching - Center for Excellence in Teaching - University of Pennsylvania
Detailed and broad site designed for teachers - there's a lot here worth any teacher's time
Minus Aura Points: Walter Benjamin, Modern Education and the Challenge of AI
This is a unique and abstract look at the implications of AI in education which can be easily dismissed by administrators and teachers who don't have the luxury of thinking about what they are doing. The idea that thinking is a luxury and not a necessity speaks directly to this problem
State Education Policy and the New Artificial Intelligence
A case for bibliographies in the age of artificial intelligence - On History
From the Institute for Historical research, School of advanced Study, University of London, this makes a case for an established bibliography of history to establish a record of sources to combat the ill effects of generative AI. Only an authoritative system can independently verify the credibility, accuracy and truthfulness of Generative AI outputs.
Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth – The White House
The text of this Executive Order promotes AI competency without defining what exactly that is. It would be easy to assume that there is no research or thought behind this EO other than promoting AI.
Against Technofeudal Education - by Matt Seybold
Not for the faint of heart - this contrarian view deserves a place in our conversations while rushing to make sure "students know how to use AI"
Can AI Hold Office Hours? - Law School Research on AI accuracy
Law school professors uploaded a patent law casebook into A.I. models from OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. Then they asked dozens of patent law questions based on the casebook and found that all three A.I. chatbots made “significant” legal errors that could be “harmful for learning.”
What good is writing anyway? — Harvard Gazette
Scholars across range of disciplines weigh in on value of the activity amid rise of generative AI systems
My losing battle against AI cheating
Despite bold caps syllabus prohibitions and lecture hall warnings in my best scary voice, the number of AI-generated assignments is rising.
AI Assignments: 10 Best Practices for Higher Ed Instructors
Prof. Farhana Sultana: "This is why I’ve railed against AI for years, as I’ve been seeing my students’ abilities to create, critically think, analyze, weigh evidence, write analytically all wither away in this zombification trend. They’re creating the permanent underclass." — Bluesky
This bluesky post and the responses to it are filled with interesting ideas about AI and education - though only a few of which are are available to teachers in the course of their routine conversations with colleagues or professional development
Kevin Gannon (now a Moo Deng fan account): "Detecting a shift in the higher-ed dicourse on GenAI; an emergent line of argument seems to be "we already use a lot of other tools with shitty data privacy, and AI isn't the only thing w energy concerns, so choosing not to use it is basically meaningless." Which feels like "oberying in advance" tbh" — Bluesky
Interesting conversation about AI - teachers should keep these ideas in mind and be aware of College/University colleagues
Olex.AI | AI For Teachers
Teachers shouldn't watch the short video commercial for this product for consideration to buy it , but should watch it to get a better idea of the tsunami of product options that are going to overflow their inbox in the next few months
STORM - from Stanford University
Teachers should try this the minute they see it, just give it a shot. This application creates an outline of a topic by gathering information from the Internet, then produces an article on any given topic with references to the sources it's drawn from. It writes an article with citations.
A framework for designing assignments in the age of ai - Harvard Writing Project
List of considerations to use when planning writing assignments
Artificial Intelligence - The Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning
Home page of site dedicated to providing instructors with guidance to use AI in their work and adapting coursework with and without AI
Developing evaluative judgement for a time of generative artificial intelligence
Assessing the authenticity, accuracy and perspective of information and ideas lies at the heart of social studies education, but teachers know how easily students take search results as authoritative. This makes a strong case for lessons that have students assessing generative AI output