AI & LLMs Teaching & Education

AI & LLMs Teaching & Education

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Five things I believe about actually-existing AI today.
Five things I believe about actually-existing AI today.
This essay is helpful for curriculum designers and teachers because it identifies the ability of AI to quickly produce products that are "good enough" to suffice for a given purpose. In that sense it helps to crank out charts, worksheets and questions that aren't necessarily great, but are good enough. Students looking for quick, good enough essays will always find AI attractive
Five things I believe about actually-existing AI today.
Fuel of delusions
Fuel of delusions
Teachers should read this essay because it suggests a question they may not have considered - how many of their lonely students will be talking to chatbots more than humans? What changes can this bring?
Fuel of delusions
Teaching with AI: strategies against cheating
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
Teaching with AI: strategies against cheating
AI competency framework for students
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.
AI competency framework for students
Judge tosses authors' AI training copyright lawsuit against Meta
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
Judge tosses authors' AI training copyright lawsuit against Meta
Minus Aura Points: Walter Benjamin, Modern Education and the Challenge of AI
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
Minus Aura Points: Walter Benjamin, Modern Education and the Challenge of AI
A case for bibliographies in the age of artificial intelligence - On History
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.
A case for bibliographies in the age of artificial intelligence - On History
Against Technofeudal Education - by Matt Seybold
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"
Against Technofeudal Education - by Matt Seybold
Can AI Hold Office Hours? - Law School Research on AI accuracy
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.”
Can AI Hold Office Hours? - Law School Research on AI accuracy
My losing battle against AI cheating
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.
My losing battle against AI cheating
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
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
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
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
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
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
Olex.AI | AI For Teachers
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
Olex.AI | AI For Teachers
STORM - from Stanford University
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.

STORM - from Stanford University