AI & LLMs Teaching & Education

73 bookmarks

Custom sorting

4 Principles for Classroom AI, From an Experienced Educator (Opinion)

Ignoring AI, even if it intimidates you, isn't the path to take for you or your students. Instead, consider this advice - make exploration and reflection the centerpiece of AI use in your classroom. Make it the subject of critical thinking conversations

4 Principles for Classroom AI, From an Experienced Educator (Opinion)

Trep artificial intelligence and academic professions

AAUP report makes case for professors and teachers to be at the center of AI decisions at colleges and universities, consistent with the school's mission. Yet, as with other tech products over the years, school administrations are making decisions guided by different goals

Trep artificial intelligence and academic professions

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

We need to reckon with what ChatGPT is doing to the classroom and to human expression. Meghan O'Rourke's essay is the most thoughtful and comprehensive I've yet to see myself. It is worth a read

Opinion | The Seductions of A.I. for the Writer’s Mind

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

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

Try featured notebooks on selected topics in NotebookLM

Teachers who are just getting to know NotebookLM should take a look at these public notebooks, already stocked with sources

Try featured notebooks on selected topics in NotebookLM

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

Edison Schools - District POlicy Acceptable use of Generative AI

Some NJ school districts have a district policy like this one from Edison

Edison Schools - District POlicy Acceptable use of Generative AI

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

Australian Framework for Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Schools

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

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

Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

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

Teacher to Teacher: Is AI reshaping education for the better? - Unesco

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.

How Early Adopter Districts Are Moving Ahead Fast With AI — and Getting It Right

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

GCPS Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Gwinnett County Public Schools

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.

New Research Finds Schools of Education Fail to Prepare Teachers to Use AI – The 74

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

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

Generative AI & Your Teaching - Center for Excellence in Teaching - University of Pennsylvania

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

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.

A case for bibliographies in the age of artificial intelligence - On History

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.

Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth – The White House

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

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

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

What good is writing anyway? — Harvard Gazette

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

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