AI Has Broken High School and College
A conversation between Ian Bogost and Lila Shroff about how school has turned into a free-for-all
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What Happened the Year I Banned AI
The first and most important move I made was providing every student with a 50-cent composition notebook that I sourced over multiple trips to office supply stores across the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area. Every day, my students and I engaged with our learning by writing in our notebooks. We reflected, brainstormed, and drafted everything by hand, which I learned through research has benefits I hadn’t previously considered.
The first and most important move I made was providing every student with a 50-cent composition notebook that I sourced over multiple trips to office supply stores across the greater Dallas–Fort Worth area. Every day, my students and I engaged with our learning by writing in our notebooks. We reflected, brainstormed, and drafted everything by hand, which I learned through research has benefits I hadn’t previously considered.
Build an AI Leadership Team with Keith Wasserstrom - Artificial Intelligence Podcast
Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Podcast with Jonathan Green! In this episode, we delve into the nuanced world of leadership amidst technological
Will AI Replace Human Thinking? The Case for Writing and Coding Manually
Learning to Think Again, and the Cost of AI Dependency.
There are so many (hype/boring) posts about AI coming out every day. It’s OK to use it, and everyone does it, but still learn your craft, and try to think.
Blue Books Reimagined
Claire used blue books as a form of in-class journaling, reflection, and process-based practice writing. At the start of the semester, she distributed fresh blue books to her classes with an introductory prompt based on the learning outcomes of the class as a way to create a baseline for students’ writing, both to get to know the students as well as to learn more about their handwriting, thought process, and timed writing ability. Claire would then collect the books at the end of class. As the semester progressed, she would slowly increase the amount of writing. The prompts ranged from reading-based responses to creative musings to self-reflections. Scaffolding assignments, like annotated bibliographies, practice theses, short “they say/I say” essays, six sentence arguments, outlines, and free writing were conducted in class using blue books alongside creative poems, music video storyboarding, short story writing, and post-unit reflections based on the Taxonomy of Reflection. She then asked students to engage in the think-pair-share model where they would discuss their blue book answers with a partner, then either share out to the whole class or build upon incrementally larger sharing groups until the whole class had rejoined to discuss their ideas.
Note on the "Critique the AI Output" Assignments
We should also use AI to critique our own work.
Will We Regret Ignoring Our Students' AI Safety, Just like the AI Luminaries?
one-third of teens are using AI for emotional support, with 71% having used AI chatbots. Perhaps most concerning, 26% of these young people report preferring chatbot conversations over speaking with real people, while 23% turn to these digital companions because they feel they have no one else to talk to.
What's In Your Statement?
Friendly reminder that there's an Syllabi AI Policy Repository
What I Mean When I Say Critical AI Literacy
To unpack this, we should first maybe unpack crticial, AI, and literacy. By critical, I mean this in multiple senses of the word. One is critical as in critical thinking, as in skepticism and quest…
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.”
How To Argue With An AI Booster
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In the last two years I've written no less than 500,000 words, with many of them dedicated to breaking both existent and previous myths about the state of technology and the tech industry itself. While I feel no resentment — I real
Why I Use AI Transparency Statements in My Classroom
Transparency Builds Trust Where AI Detectors Fall Short
What will AI do to higher education? - eCampus News
Undergraduates discuss how AI must be understood better in higher education so that those using it can do so ethically.
The family of teenager who died by suicide alleges OpenAI's ChatGPT is to blame
The parents of Adam Raine, who died by suicide in April, claim in a new lawsuit against OpenAI that the teenager used ChatGPT as his “suicide coach.”
Anthropic education report: How educators use Claude \ Anthropic
Research on 74,000 educator conversations shows how faculty use Claude for teaching, research, and building interactive learning tools.
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.
A Practical Roadmap on How to Build AI Agents (for Beginners)
This is a practical roadmap on how to build AI agents for beginners, showcasing a step-by-step path starting with a model that thinks clearly,
Yes, It Is Our Job As Professors To Stop Our Students Using ChatGPT
Relying on stressed-out students to resist digital temptation is not refusing to play cop; it’s a cop-out.
AI Shows Racial Bias When Grading Essays — and Can’t Tell Good Writing From Bad
Smith: Study finds ChatGPT replicates human prejudices and fails to recognize exceptional work — reinforcing the inequalities it's intended to fix.
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge. Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online. A Google search on Thursday revealed it had indexed nearly 300,000 Grok conversations. It has led one expert to describe AI chatbots as a "privacy disaster in progress".
Hundreds of thousands of user conversations with Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Grok have been exposed in search engine results - seemingly without users' knowledge.Unique links are created when Grok users press a button to share a transcript of their conversation - but as well as sharing the chat with the intended recipient, the button also appears to have made the chats searchable online.A Google search on Thursday revealed it had indexed nearly 300,000 Grok conversations.It has led one expert to describe AI chatbots as a "privacy disaster in progress".
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.
Weapons of Mass Delusion Are Helping Kids Opt Out of Reality
Emily Tavoulareas says AI firms are actively enabling young children to trade real relationships for an illusion — or perhaps more aptly, for a delusion.
Google Says It Dropped the Energy Cost of AI Queries By 33x In One Year - Slashdot
Google has released (PDF) a new analysis of its AI's environmental impact, showing that it has cut the energy use of AI text queries by a factor of 33 over the past year. Each prompt now consumes about 0.24 watt-hours -- the equivalent of watching nine seconds of TV. An anonymous reader shares an ex…
Measuring the environmental impact of AI inference | Google Cloud Blog
A methodology for measuring the energy, emissions, and water impact of Gemini prompts shines a light on the environmental impact of AI inference.
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.
AI Learning Resources & Guides from Anthropic \ Anthropic
Access comprehensive guides, tutorials, and best practices for working with Claude. Learn how to craft effective prompts and maximize AI interactions in your workflow.
Poisoned For Progress: How AI Is Quietly Draining Black Communities
As AI demands skyrocket, so does water and energy use. In Black neighborhoods, the environmental cost is rooted in systemic neglect.
A Year of Library Social Media in One Weekend: How I Did It with ChatGPT and Canva
How I built 43 weeks of engaging Instagram posts with AI, Canva Bulk Create, and Canva’s built-in scheduler
Texas Investigates AI Chatbot Companies for Deceptive Mental Health Service Aimed at Children
Paxton’s investigation builds upon a probe into Character AI's data privacy and safety practices announced in December.