AI + Education Insights
What do Educators Need from AI? A lot more than we think
Amanda recently spoke at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI) 2024 AI+Education Summit on a panel focused on "What do Educators Need from AI." Her answer was: It’s a lot more than we think.
Our Top 5’s from 2023
To commemorate an amazing 2023, we shared a selection of our Top 5's from the year: webinars, prompts, and resources.
Thoughts from TECHSPO
How many school districts have an GenAI Policy in place? What about a specific budget for GenAI literacy? We had a chance to ask these two questions to a room full of district leaders when our CEO did the opening keynote for this year’s TECHSPO Conference.
ChatGPT’s First University Partner
Last week ASU announced it has become the first higher education institution to partner with ChatGPT Enterprise. We are excited to see a major milestone in the adoption of AI in education, which highlights key opportunities and current limitations to wide scale adoption.
How Do Parents Feel About GenAI?
Last Friday we hosted our first GenAI workshop for caregivers at Lexington High School in Massachusetts. It was an amazing experience that emphasized the importance of engaging caregivers in the conversation about AI in education. Here's what we learned:
Educator Pricing for OpenAI?
GenAI has enormous potential to transform the education system, but ChatGPT-4 is just too expensive for schools. Here’s what we’d like to see from OpenAI and why it’s so important.
Demand for More AI PD
Edweek’s 2023 "Year in Charts" has done a great job highlighting the impact of Generative AI in education (we love data). Here are some of the key highlights from their research.
University Enrolls the first AI Students
A U.S. university enrolls their first AI virtual students. Do you think they had to write an application essay?
North Carolina Publishes AI Guidance for K12
North Carolina become the 4th state to publish guidance on AI adoption in schools. We had a chance to speak with Vera Cubero from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction who spearheaded its development. We talked about how this guidance came to be, key areas of focus, and their plan to build buy-in.
“Chatbot Hype or Harm? Teens Push to Broaden A.I. Literacy”
We love this article from the NY Times highlighting students’ push for AI literacy in their school. This article echoes so much of what we see when working with students on AI ethics and literacy. For those who run into the paywall, here are the key points:
What do students think of AI detection software?
What do students think of AI detection software?
Report Summary: The impact of generative AI on Black communities
A new report by McKinsey on the impact of Generative AI on Black communities highlights both the potential risks and opportunities of this transformational technology. It's a worthwhile read for anyone interested in ethical and equitable AI. Here's our summary.
How Young People Are Using AI
There is still so much we don't know about how young people use GenAI, so it is great to see OfCom's 2023 Online Nation Report for the UK. Here were some of the key findings…
Google Gemini Release Review
After a few delays and a lot of hype, Google just released Gemini, their new GenAI model. In this video I break down the 60 page paper they released in support of the launch, with highlights below…
6 Strategies for Using AI for Social-Emotional Learning
Helping students develop inter- and intra-personal skills is an essential part of learning and plays a significant role in students’ overall well-being and academic success. GenAI tools can help teachers create highly personalized social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences. Here are our six favorite strategies for designing SEL lessons and activities with GenAI:
Thanksgiving Activities Prompts
Try these 6 different mini-prompts to develop activities for exploring the holiday with your students.
Multi-Modal GPT-4: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly
OpenAI is about to launch multi-modal GPT-4 with expanded capabilities that were unimaginable even this time last year. Unfortunately, as with all new technology there are both amazing possibilities and enormous risks. OpenAI outlines these risks in a recent paper covering the early testing of their image to text generator: GPT-4V(ision). I break down the paper in this video with a TL:DW version.
Higher Ed Workshop - Two Things
We ran our first workshop for Higher Education faculty at Ramapo College of New Jersey with a packed house of engaged, thoughtful stakeholders from across the college. There were two things that we wanted to highlight from the session.