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We just released our Assignments feature 🤩 Now teachers can control whether students can copy and paste text into a particular file. This allows for more accurate detection of AI-generated content. #GoogleDocs #CriticalThinking #AI More tips here 👇 https://lnkd.in/eYrCd4tJ

How should educators deal with the rise of Gen AI? We're dealing with the calculator moment! Yesterday I had the pleasure to be on a panel with Gerrit Jessen, CMP CMM CED, Kristin Malek, Dahlia El Gazzar & Ramon Özer, at the IMEX Faculty Program. It was refreshing and inspiring seeing how faculty members from universities around the world, recognising the impact of GenAI, are taking proactive steps to rethink their approach. It was great hearing student's perspectives as well - thanks Abby Cantrell! How do we harness the potential of tools like ChatGPT & Spark, while ensuring academic integrity and fostering critical thinking skills? A really good resource that was shared was the guidelines published by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln to help faculty develop course policies around AI. Some key takeaways: - Have a Clear Policy: Include AI guidelines directly in your syllabus. - Set Specific Limits: Outline allowed/disallowed AI uses for different assignments. - Communicate the 'Why': Explain the educational reasoning behind your policy. You can read more here: https://lnkd.in/dfctAYww And there's also a really useful crowdsourced Sheet of AI Policies by courses published here: https://lnkd.in/d2Fsrh6c Hopefully this is useful for you educators out there! I'm keen to know more about what policies are you implementing in your classroom? Chime in with your thoughts below! #GenerativeAI #Education #AcademicIntegrity #ChatGPT #SparkAI

This Substack post carefully dissects not just Khanmigo's teaching moves (spoiler: looks good, actually not quite) but the teaching move that actually works: making sure working memory consolidates properly into long-term memory before building new concepts on top. Thing is this ONLY works if educators can game out their students' learning journeys over years, not just months (or weeks), and have the space and strength to hold and encourage students in the formative strain of grappling with new concepts. Can AI do that? Someday it will. But it's not being trained to (and it's hard to grasp optimising an AI for the awkward pause). More importantly, I genuinely don't think there is a technological substitute for love. I'm convinced that whenever my students have really learned in my classes (very rarely, I'm sure!), they've held that formative strain (of consolidating new concepts) knowing that I am *there* for them, that I care that they learn the stuff, that I will give my time and effort until they do. But waiting for the right answer doesn't cost an AI anything the way it costs a human teacher. Will students still accept a pedagogical offering if it has cost no-one anything? We'll see. https://lnkd.in/gN7c6NHk

Top 10 Best AI Tools for Students in 2024

"Consensus is best thought of as a generative AI-powered academic search engine. Ask it an academic question, and rather than the "best guess" type answer you'll get from ChatGPT or the webpage-based results of a traditional search engine, you get answers taken from published peer-reviewed studies and papers. As well as a natural-language answer, you will also see the results of the “consensus meter” that attempts to quantify how opinions may be split or complex or contentious issues, and a list of links to the research materials that were used to generate the answer, to help with verification or further reading" https://lnkd.in/eAn-6vAx

While it is tempting to bury one's head in the sand regarding education using AI, I know that the best approach is to be proactive, just like it would likely be with any other new tool. 😀 From the article: "Whether you’re a schoolteacher or university student, a workplace upskiller or a lifelong learner, there are generative AI tools you can use to make education more accessible, efficient and affordable. Generative AI is great for structuring and communicating information in ways that make it easy to understand and absorb as well as providing answers it can be used to generate interactive learning experiences such as chatbots that can bring learning to life, or even roleplay as historical characters. On top of this, many of the online learning platforms are swiftly adding generative AI functionality in order to create personalized learning experiences and streamline the process of course creation. So here’s a look at some of the best tools I’ve come across that are tailored for use by learners and educators." Sherri Foster Kristine Jacquin Katrina S. Rogers, PhD, MELP, ACC #medialiteracy #mediapsychology #ai #artificialintelligence #aieducation #educationtechnology

Critical part of assuring trustworthy AI is that AI actually is developed and used in a trustworthy manner by majority of people. Understanding all the concepts behind the AI technology and implications of AI use is crucial. Open resources play critial part in raising understanding and shortening learning curve.

Some thoughts on AIED research & development: The skills to creatively leverage relevant learning sciences into AIED product designs, so that engineers and product managers can understand. Sounds like a simple process, but the the hardest part is the depth of knowledge needed when it comes to the understanding learning sciences and pinpointing what is relevant when it comes to an AIED product, creative thinking and design skills to connect learning science with AI technology effectively, the ability to work cross domains & skills to transform ideas into product designs, the right strategies to connect multipile teams together to drive one goal! This is really an urgently needed skill sets when it comes to building a good AIED product that potentially would have huge impacts (e.g. modifying thought processes and learning behavior of our next generation)! With the rising quantity of AI products, I think in the coming 5-10 years, companies that eventually survived and thrived in the market, must have done this properly! A good read to share: AI and Future of Teaching and Learning, by Office of Educational Technology, US Department of Education. https://lnkd.in/dpZ-eMQD

🎯 The first AI4Gov Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) titled “Trustworthy and Democratic AI - Fundamentals” was introduced a couple of months ago and has already garnered considerable interest. It's available free of charge and you can access it here: https://lnkd.in/dRWJztdP 🔊 Our latest blog post from the Jozef Stefan Institute, outlines its content and emphasizes the significance of informal learning and open education in building a foundational understanding on critical topics like bias in artificial intelligence, which aligns with AI4Gov's objectives.

AI is having a strong impact in our lifes and societies, which include animals. We, who are interested in animal rights, cannot ignore AI development and regulations intended to prevent harms to humans and the environment. Animals are being ignored so far in regulations and guidelines but understanding them is a key starting point. AI4Gov is producing a set of tools for citizens and officials dealing with AI challenges to democracy. I recommend you this MOOC if you want to learn abot AI and democracy.