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The United States Department of Education recently released a new guide that seeks to inform ed tech developers as they create AI products and services for use in education. We spoke with Kevin Johnstun, education program specialist in ED's Office of Educational Technology, about the ins and outs of the report and what it means for education institutions.

This video demonstrates how AI tools are handling complex academic tasks, from answering quiz questions to writing essays and creating presentations. I’ll share data on student AI adoption, show live examples of AI capabilities, and discuss the challenges in detecting AI-generated work. The presentation concludes with strategies for adapting our teaching and assessment methods to this rapidly evolving landscape. It’s a candid look at how AI is reshaping education and what it means for the future of our programs. 00:00 - Introduction 00:16 - Student AI Adoption 01:03 - AI Aces Multiple Choice 01:15 - AI Tackles Short Answers 01:40 - AI Generates Essays 02:20 - AI Creates Presentations 03:37 - The Limits of AI Detection 04:38 - AI’s Exponential Growth 05:06 - Strategies for Adapting to AI Music: Unclean Machine by Burn Water http://burnwater.bandcamp.com

This post is the third in the Beyond ChatGPT series about generative AI’s impact on learning. In the previous posts, I discussed how generative AI has moved beyond text generation and is starting to impact critical skills like reading and note-taking. In this post, I’ll cover how the technology is marketed to students and educators to automate feedback. The goal of this series is to explore AI beyond ChatGPT and consider how this emerging technology is transforming not simply writing, but many of the skills we associate with learning. Educators must shift our discourse away from ChatGPT’s disruption of assessments and begin to grapple with what generative AI means for teaching and learning.

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Tim Fawns and Anne-Marie Scott facilitate the MYFest session held on 24 July 2024. In this session, we explore the current AI moment with participants from an entangled pedagogy perspective. We begin by sharing how this moment might be challenging some of the things we believe about education, and where problematic assumptions or unconvincing solutions are occurring. Using examples of institutional responses to AI, crowdsourced from participants, we then trace where possibilities for agency might lie in this moment of complexity. We don’t promise to solve any problems, and that’s part of the point. Many educational problems cannot be solved, and we might, instead, hold those problems open in order to better understand them and find ways to negotiate them, in collaboration with others.

Stella Lee facilitates the MYFest session held on 22 July 2024. AI literacy is more than learning how to code. It’s about critically examining and using AI ethically and effectively. In our session, we break down what it means to be AI literate and explore an AI Literacy Framework designed for educators. We cover seven key areas, discuss the essential skills for each, and share practical resources. Join in for an animated discussion and prepare to dig in for some fun activities.

Lance Eaton facilitates the MYFest session held on 15 July 2024. This session is a case study of how College Unbound worked with students to develop their institutional policy on the use of generative AI for students and faculty. From there, the session explored through conversation, activities, and sharing how we can think and learn with students about how to critically use generative AI in general and in our respective disciplines.

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Institutions that do not adopt AI will quickly fall behind. The question is, how can colleges and universities do this systematically, securely, cost-effectively, and efficiently?

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Part 3: Associative Networks and AIs ‘Mind’

Part 2: Optimization Terrains and Confusion Matrices

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