Shifting My Thinking about AI in the Classroom
Bali defines literacy as “beyond the basic skill of how to use something...into the capacity to know when, where, and why to use it for a purpose, and, importantly, when NOT to use it.”
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Why I Use AI Transparency Statements in My Classroom
Transparency Builds Trust Where AI Detectors Fall Short
AI in Education Podcast
Dan Bowen and Ray Fleming are experienced education renegades who have worked in many various educational institutions and educational companies across the world. They talk about Artificial Intelligence in Education - what it is, how it works, and the different ways it is being used. It's not too serious, or too technical, and is intended to be a good conversation.
Please note the views on the podcast are our own or those of our guests, and not of our respective employers (unless we say otherwise at the time!)
Teachers using AI for grading: Who’s grading the AI?
California schools are using more chatbots, and teachers are using them to grade papers and give students feedback.
Value of AI in Classrooms
A new survey conducted May 7-15, 2024 for the Walton Family Foundation shows that knowledge of and support for AI in education is growing amongst parents, teachers, K-12 students, and college students. More than 80% of each group saying it has had a positive impact on education.
The AI Teaching Revolution?
What Do Five Recent Studies Say About AI's Classroom Impact: A Nuanced Reality Emerges Nick Potkalitsky Dec 02, 2024 As we mark two years since ChatGPT's momentous launch in November 2022, a persistent claim continues to echo through academic circles: that there is "absolutely no evidence" suggestin
EEF: ChatGPT cuts lesson planning
The saved time did not come at the expense of quality, independent evaluation finds
Developing AI strategy for schools
How to create an AI strategy in school, including 6 areas to consider in your AI policy and 4 steps for implementation
ChatGPT cuts lesson planning
The saved time did not come at the expense of quality, independent evaluation finds
Generative AI Pushes Outcome Over Process
I really hate generative AI, because there are many reasons to hate it. It's abilities depend on stolen data; it uses so much electricity it...
AI-enabled Education Economic Case
Best AI Prompt Galleries for Teachers
Discover the best AI prompt galleries for teachers in 2025. Save time, spark creativity, and enhance learning with curated, teacher-tested AI prompts.
AI course policy – M. Montenegro
AI literacy is the only way to a successful AI-human collaboration and AI-assisted education
Without AI literacy, the risks of AI will increase
More Schools Are Considering Education-Focused AI Tools. What’s the Best Way to Use Them?
A new report shows AI teaching assistants could be beneficial in the classroom — but may also bring invisible bias.
The End of Handwriting | WIRED
Students’ ability to outsource critical thinking to LLMs has left schools and universities scrambling to find ways to prevent plagiarism and cheating. Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education, Inside Higher Ed wrote in June, university professors are considering bringing back tests written longhand. Sales of “blue books”—those anxiety-inducing notebooks used for college exams—are ticking up, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Handwriting, in person, may soon become one of the few things a student can do to prove they’re not a bot.
Students’ ability to outsource critical thinking to LLMs has left schools and universities scrambling to find ways to prevent plagiarism and cheating. Five semesters after ChatGPT changed education, Inside Higher Ed wrote in June, university professors are considering bringing back tests written longhand. Sales of “blue books”—those anxiety-inducing notebooks used for college exams—are ticking up, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Handwriting, in person, may soon become one of the few things a student can do to prove they’re not a bot.
"...give ourselves permission to experiment..."
Part 2 of an interview with Rob Nelson
The AI Wolf That Education Must Face
GPT-5 is now here and freely available to all.
Open Source AI is Going Mainstream
A few interesting things are happening around open source artificial intelligence, and even if you haven't been paying much attention to generative AI beyond the big name brands like ChatGPT, I think this is something that you should take a look at.
ChatGPT Can't Kill Anything Worth Preserving
If an algorithm is the death of high school English, maybe that's an okay thing.
"...In the mode of 'we don't know'"
Part 1 of an interview with Rob Nelson
"...In the mode of 'we don't know'"
Part 1 of an interview with Rob Nelson
ChatGPT jumps a level with OpenAI's major GPT-5 update
The Thursday release of GPT-5 brings together traditional and "reasoning" models and ups the ante in the race toward so-called artificial general intelligence (AGI).
Driving the news: OpenAI is making the new model available Thursday for free and paid users, with enterprise and educational customers getting access starting next week.
An Open Letter to My Students about AI
AI for students: Learn to thrive! Understand AI's impact, use it wisely, boost your critical thinking, and succeed in the AI era.
What Happened the Year I Banned AI
My students will develop essential skills more effectively without artificial intelligence, so I'll keep banning AI tools in my class.
Learning Now That We Have AI
I have been exploring and writing about AI now since the release of ChatGPT. I think about AI both as a user and as an educator and believe I have enough experience and a perspective from which to …
How things are made – Music for Deckchairs
In Praise of Memory
Offloading must follow internalization
COMMENTARY by Adrian Lenardic and Johnny Seales, "Why Write?" - Future U
Writing to a rubric involves thinking, but it’s an artificial form of thinking. The messier human mode is bypassed in favor of following a formula to gain a reward – a move to perverse incentives.
Once something can follow the formula faster, why not use it – a move with no incentive. This follows a broader path that moved higher education from a place of learning to a place of training. Students became trained to write before AI was given training data to help it ‘learn’ how to write essays for students.
Resisting School AI Mania Help Sheet (2).pdf