AGAINST AI -
Work in progress as of Aug 21, but shows promist
AI & LLMs Teaching & Education
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?
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally. - The New York Times
Survey: 60% of Teachers Used AI This Year and Saved up to 6 Hours of Work a Week – The 74
Almost hidden in this article is the survey result that 57% of teacher respondents said that AI would decrease independent thinking, and 52% said it would reduce critical thinking.
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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.”