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"
AI & LLMs Teaching & Education
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
General Principles of Using Generative AI | University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge's concise list of guidance for students represents a good attempt at an essential message we have to communicate to students
Examples of possible academic integrity policies that address student use of generative AI tools - Eberly Center - Carnegie Mellon University
This will help teachers looking for language to identify different levels of AI integration with coursework.
Revising Historical Writing Using Generative AI – AHA
An Associate Professor of History and the Director of Graduate Public History at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas reflects on her own use of AI in her writing.
8 expert tips for getting started with NotebookLM
NotebookLM is an AI-powered tool for more deeply understanding something — we asked a Google expert to give us a few tips on how to use it.
Meet Google NotebookLM: 10 things to know for educators (Ditch that Textbook)
Leave it to Ditch That Textbook to whip up a quick and easy guide to NotebookLM, useful for a quick scan of what can be done with it
Using ChatGPT in the U.S. History survey | Teaching United States History (Oct 2023)
Given the changing capacity of ChatGPT, this experiment may be dated, but this details how a college professor had US History survey students grade ChatGPT-written essays as a form of assessment. (Though one wonders still of they used AI to complete that task)
Education Hazards of Generative Ai
Concise report that should be read by all teachers - this provides a basic scientific overview of how large language models (LLMs) work and connects this knowledge to practical implications for educators.
US District Court Ruling supporting high school in AI academic integrity lawsuit
U.S. Magistrate ruling that Hingham High School were not “hasty” hasty in concluding that a student had cheated by relying on AI. It also said the school didn’t impose particularly heavy-handed discipline in the case, considering that the students had violated the school district’s academic integrity rules.
Historical Perspectives on Artifical Intelligence - AHA
American Historical Association presentation handout that shows the vast gulf between the perspective of history as a disciplinary practice (which has valid, significant concerns about AI, listed here) and history education
Gen AI strategies for Australian higher education: Emerging practice - Australian Government's Tiertiary Eduation Quality and Standards Agency
Nov 2024 guide for secondary schools in Australia developing and implementing effective strategies for meaningful and ethical integration of gen AI tools into teaching and learning practices, while also mitigating the risk gen AI poses to award integrity.
aiEDU - The AI Education Project
Non-profit that work with education systems to advance AI literacy and AI readiness through high quality curriculum, professional development, and strategic partnerships with states, school districts, and other systems. Its materials are only tangentially related to Social Studies
An avalanche really is coming this time Nov 2023
High school teachers can skip down to the "Welcome to the machine" section for this article The firebell in the night is closer than you think
International Journal for Educational Integrity Recommendations on the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence in Education
As the use of AI tools may not always be consistent with academic integrity, we consider it important to familiarise all education stakeholders with how to use AI tools responsibly and in accordance with academic integrity practices and values.
This Week’s Free & Useful Artificial Intelligence Tools For The Classroom | Larry Ferlazzo's Websites of the Day...
Larry has been a fixture in online education discussions for decades, no one churns out lists like he does - great place to start pecking around in AI
AI Chatbots Will Help Students Learn Nothing Faster Than Ever
Dan Meyer's sobering view of AI adds some wise ballast to the conversation and rush into AI
The Ethics of Generative AI in the Classroom | Facing History & Ourselves
A three stage lesson that teachers can use right now
What should a syllabus statement on AI look like? | The Institute for Learning and Teaching | Colorado State University
The Homework Apocalypse - by Ethan Mollick