Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and Research Series 10, Episode 8 We explore quite a lot of news related to AI in Education that arrived this week, which meant we didn't get to cover nearly as many academic research papers as we'd hoped. Oh well, there's still 4 episodes left this year to catch up ? News Open AI released a course for teachers https://www.commonsense.org/education/training/chatgpt-k12-foundations The AI Art Turing Test Overview: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing Direct link to the AI Turing Test form Avoiding the Discriminatory Use of A ..read more

BONUS EPISODE ! We'd love to meet more of our listeners in person, so here's a list of events over the next few weeks when Dan, Ray, or Dan and Ray are speaking about AI in Education. One of the things that makes the podcast special is the amazing stories we get from our guests, and there's more stories than fit into an episode, and we're always on the lookout for more. So come and say hi at any of these events, and per   haps we can share an untold story, or you can tell us yours! August  19 August - Melbourne - Ray Melbourne EdTech Summit Ray's on the panel discussing "Th ..read more

This episode of the AI in Education podcast features an interview with Anthony England, the Director of Innovative Learning Technologies at Pymble Ladies College in Sydney. Anthony, known for his impressive shirt collection and his kind-hearted approach to education, shares his insights on the challenges and opportunities presented by AI in assessment and personalisation of the learning experience for students. Anthony shares his vision for AI-driven personalised tutors, and how AI can assist in providing contextual and personalised feedback to students. We also cover the role of AI in helping ..read more

This week's episode is a discussion of the Australian Parliamentary report on AI in Education, "Studdy Buddy or Influencer?". The report highlights both the opportunities and challenges GenAI presents, focusing on student and teacher perspectives, ethical considerations, regulatory approaches, and potential solutions. The report makes many recommendations, with the very first being significant on many levels: "The Committee recommends that the Australian Government: consider making the use of GenAI in education a national priority" Dan and Ray are joined by guest, Miriam Scott, an Educati ..read more

Another News & Research episode this week, and lots of interesting links and research discussed. Here's the weblinks for everything! News Deception and Deepfakes - How genAI is Changing Cyber Safety Course: https://spsc.thinkific.com/courses/take/deceptionanddeepfakes/  Leon Furzes online course, where he made a free course about deepfakes hosted by a deepfake, with deepfake content about deepfakes https://leonfurze.teachable.com/p/this-course-is-ai-generated  McKinsey surveyed 1363 working professionals across countries, industries, and demographics about the use of generative A ..read more

In September, the Toddle team organised "AI for AussieEd", a week-long series of professional development sessions for teachers, which had thousands of attendees for the virtual sessions. This episode "Driving Innovation in Australian Schools" was part of the week, and brings you the experiences of three educators, in conversation with podcast hosts Dan and Ray The guests are: Rachel Saunders, Primary School Learning Leader at Concordia College in Adelaide Ryan Elwell, Director of Digital Pedagogies & Online Safety Education at the ACT Education Directorate Matt Heinrich, Director of Lea ..read more

This week's episode has a lot more news than research. But the research that we spend a bit of time on is the insights on how students in Australian universities are using AI. Really good insights for any educator or leader! News AI Detectors Falsely Accuse Students of Cheating—With Big Consequences https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-10-18/do-ai-detectors-work-students-face-false-cheating-accusations  Empowering Education Leaders Toolkit https://tech.ed.gov/education-leaders-ai-toolkit/  TEQSA Guidance for universities Danny Liu video https://bit.ly/students-ai  Resear ..read more

Series 10, Episode 3 This week's episode is an interview with Dr Anna Denejkina, who's an interdisciplinary researcher and Associate Director at The Insight Centre. We discuss her research on youth engagement with generative AI. The conversation explores the multifaceted impact of AI technology in education, addressing benefits such as upskilling and accessibility, as well as concerns related to academic misconduct, job displacement, and misinformation. Key themes include gender disparity in confidence using AI, the importance of critical and empathetic thinking, and the evolving landscap ..read more

This week we cover a range of AI in Education related news and academic research papers. Here's all the links you need to read more about each of the topics we dicussed: News Australia's Voluntary AI Safety Standard In September the Australian Government published: Voluntary AI Safety Standard (68pg): https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/voluntary-ai-safety-standard Proposals paper for introducing mandatory guardrails for AI in high-risk settings: https://consult.industry.gov.au/ai-mandatory-guardrails Stanford's STORM https://storm.genie.stanford.edu/ Students give English HSC exam an F o ..read more

Welcome to the first Episode of Series 10, where we are going to take some time to review some of the fundamental changes we're going to be seeing as AI becomes more pervasive.  In this Episode we're taking a different approach, with Dan and Ray using Google's NotebookLM to create AI-delivered mini-podcasts about each other, which leads to a discussion about the backgrounds of both hosts, and a discussion about how this new AI might be used in education. Obviously, both Dan and Ray conclude that AI won't replace them...yet! For your own experiments, you can find NotebookLM at https://note ..read more