AI & LLMs Teaching & Education

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YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us)
YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us)
14 minute video of YouTube creator showing how YouTube is infusing AI editing into content uploaded to its platform. The important piece for teachers is his explanation of how he never uses AI to help him produce content because it is not him, it is not authentic. Could teachers help students think about their own writing the same way?
YouTube Is Using AI to Alter Content (and not telling us)
4 Principles for Classroom AI, From an Experienced Educator (Opinion)
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
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
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.
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