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How AI Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

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How AI Killed Student Writing (and Revived It)

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AI Chatbots Are Not Your Students’ Friends

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AI Chatbots Are Not Your Students’ Friends

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AI Chatbots Are Not Your Students’ Friends

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John Oliver’s warning should be a wake-up call for schools and families

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The Hour of AI is your easy starting point to understand and explore the world of Artificial Intelligence. We provide clear explanations, curated links, and simple pathways to help you learn how AI platforms and applications work.

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This is a general information website for references dedicated to help people learn about AI tools and training worldwide.

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Check out this article for info on how students can optimize studying with AI!

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University of Pennsylvania researchers tweaked an AI tutor to tailor the difficulty of practice problems for each student.

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The nation's largest purveyor of licensing exams for teachers now offers a gauge of whether teachers have the skills to use artificial intelligence-the latest sign that the technology continues to infiltrate all corners of K-12 education.

The test uses three modules to evaluate the ability to recognize and understand generative and large-language-model AI in an educational context; navigate the technology ethically; evaluate AI-based tools and programs; and use AI in the classroom. It typically takes less than 30 minutes.

Forty-six states already use ETS' suite of Praxis tests to gauge teaching skills and subject-specific content knowledge for teacher certification. The AI test was not specifically developed for licensure or other high stakes uses, but it does position ETS to respond if states decide to include AI topics in teacher certification in the future.

"There's this universal concern around appropriate use: for protecting students, making sure students are using it appropriately, making sure teachers know how to guide them, and that teachers themselves are using it appropriately," said Vince Dean, an associate vice president at ETS who leads the Praxis program.

Most teachers already use AI, but lack meaningful guidance

Nearly all districts now use at least some AI-enabled tools or programs, and a majority report they have given teachers training in the technology. But for the most part, teachers say they're on their own to learn how to use and respond to AI effectively.

"There's a lot of choose-your-own-adventure stuff going on there," Dean said. "We were finding that because people were engaging with different types of chatbots or different products, there wasn't even a great understanding of base terminology: What is an LLM? How does it work? What are things to be aware of as you start using them?"

"Teachers are such motivated people that quite often it's them who find the [AI] tools that they take into the school," Verghese said. "But even if a teacher is brilliant, ... I don't think it's legally smart for a school to rely on teachers to use AI in whatever way."

Test scores via a dashboard of strengths, weaknesses, and potential equity concerns are available for individuals and groups of people within a district. Dean said administrators can use the dashboards to prioritize professional development or coaching for individuals or groups of people, or to plan timelines for AI implementation.

ETS piloted the assessment last year with 75 secondary English/language arts, math, history, and English-as-a-second-language teachers at all levels of teaching and AI experience, according to Kateryna Komarova, a spokesperson for the organization.

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Do Teachers Have the Skills to Use AI? New Test Aims to Find Out

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ETS, known for licensing tests, wants to gauge teacher readiness for new technology.

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Northeastern President's OpEd: Colleges risk falling behind unless they rethink curriculum, experiential learning, and employer partnerships.

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Northeastern President's OpEd: Colleges risk falling behind unless they rethink curriculum, experiential learning, and employer partnerships.

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Opinion _ Students are AI natives. Why aren’t their colleges_

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UNICEF Report: Guidance on AI and children

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UNICEF Report: Guidance on AI and children

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This blog post provides some context for the recent UNICEF report on AI and Children. https://open.substack.com/pub/aischoollibrarian/p/the-unicef-ai-guidance-educators?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

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Highlights

As part of our AI for children project, UNICEF has developed this policy guidance to promote children's rights in government and private sector AI policies and practices, and to raise awareness of how AI systems can uphold or undermine these rights. The policy guidance explores AI systems, and considers the ways in which they impact children.

Drawing on the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the guidance offers nine requirements for child-centered AI:

1. Support children's development and well-being

2. Ensure inclusion of and for children

3. Prioritize fairness and non-discrimination for children

4. Protect children's data and privacy

5. Ensure safety for children

6. Provide transparency, explainability, and accountability for children

7. Empower governments and businesses with knowledge of AI and children's rights

8. Prepare children for present and future developments in AI

9. Create an enabling environment

To support implementation of the guidance, a list of online resources and a set of practical implementation tools are provided, including:

Roadmap for policymakers

AI for children development canvas

AI guide for parents

AI guide for teens

To see how the guidance has been applied in practice, read about the eight case studies.

Why now?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is about so much more than self-driving cars and intelligent assistants on your phone. AI systems are increasingly being used by governments and the private sector to, for example, improve the provision of education, healthcare and welfare services.

While AI is a force for innovation, it also poses risks for children and their rights, such as to their privacy, safety and security. But most AI policies, strategies and guidelines make only cursory mention of children. To help fill this gap, UNICEF has partnered with the Government of Finland to explore approaches to protecting and upholding child rights in an evolving AI world.

How the guidance was developed
Public consultation
The draft policy guidance ( version 1.0) was released in September 2020.UNICEF subsequently sought input from stakeholders who are interested in or working in areas related to the fields of AI and children's rights. This included AI developers and deployers, companies, government agencies, civil society, international organizations, academics and adult and child citizens. We invited stakeholders to express their views on the draft guidance and provide feedback and comments by October 16, 2020. (See privacy notice.)

Click here to find out how they responded to the draft guidance.

This input was analysed and incorporated into version 2.0. In order to ensure AI systems' continued alignment with the rights and situations of children, this guidance should be seen as a starting contribution to child-centred AI. We hope that similar guides continue to be adapted and enriched over time with practical insights.
Case studies and implementation
In order for the policy guidance to address the many implementation complexities, it needs to be put to use by policymakers, public organizations and businesses for validation and local adaptation. We thus invited governments and the business sector to pilot the draft guidance in their field and openly share their findings about how it was used, and what worked and what did not, so that their real experiences can improve the document. In this spirit, UNICEF has worked with a group of government and business "pilot partners" to develop case studies on how each will implement the guidance: Read the cases. Piloting organizations adhered to these terms.

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Version 2.0 | Recommendations for building AI policies and systems that uphold child rights

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After highlighting some of the improvements companies are crafting that will make AI even more accessible, college professors share how they've found ways to keep students learning without using AI as a crutch.

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Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

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You Can’t AI-Proof the Classroom, Experts Say. Get Creative Instead.

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Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Faculty members explain how to keep students engaged in their own learning and prevent them from relying on AI.

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Go to this link: https://www.aiforeducation.io/prompt-library-assessment

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As we consider Traffic Light Tools, this college survey noted that faculty instruction is the main way college students are made aware of AI policies in their classes.

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Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

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Faculty Lead AI Usage Conversations on College Campuses

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Survey data shows a majority of college students are aware of appropriate AI use cases in the classroom because their instructors—not administrators—set the expectations.

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This article from The Chronicle of Higher Education explores some of the ways AI is being used by professors and students in postsecondary education.

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11/17 Webinar: Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms

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11/17 Webinar: Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms

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Artificial intelligence is rapidly integrating into today’s classrooms, but unlike other new technologies, AI has the potential to harm, making it difficult to take advantage of its benefits. In Critical AI in K–12 Classrooms, Stephanie Smith Budhai and Marie K. Heath draw attention to the biases embedded within AI algorithms, such as those powering OpenAI’s ChatGPT and DALL-E, to guide students and teachers in developing strategies to best incorporate AI—or not—into equitable learning.

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Overview ⋮ Gutman Library Virtual Book Talk - Critical AI in K-12 Classrooms ⋮ Harvard University - Graduate School of Education ⋮ Events

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Discover events from Harvard University - Graduate School of Education

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Direct training from AI Companies is happening in schools across the nation.

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Big Tech is paying millions to train teachers on AI, in a push to bring chatbots into classrooms

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The country’s largest teachers unions are teaming up with tech companies like Microsoft and OpenAI to help educators build literacy in artificial intelligence.

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An interesting podcast about the AI revolution

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Podcast Episode · The Last Invention · Trailer · 2m

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From Carter Moulton: A collection of classroom activities, teaching prompts, and thought exercises to inspire human-centered teaching and learning in the age of generative AI

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Importance of knowing how to identify false information. Especially in an area that you have little expertise. 

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Importance of knowing how to identify false information. Especially in an area that you have little expertise. 

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A look at a a few alarming case studies about AI and mental health feedback loops

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Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

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Admissions Essays Written by AI Are Generic and Easy to Spot

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In an analysis comparing college admission essays generated by artificial intelligence to 30,000 human-written essays from before ChatGPT was released, Cornell University researchers found that AI essays are highly generic and easy to distinguish from human writing.

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Sample prompts - teaching and learning with AI

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A fascinating discussion on how to redesign schools for the age of AI. You can listen or read the transcript!

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AI is doing students’ homework, writing their essays -- and probably replacing a lot of their future jobs. Is it time to rethink what schools are for?

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💡The Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI is a national project exploring how the role of teachers is changing with the rise of artificial intelligence.

Your responses will help shape open-source frameworks and resources to support teachers in the years ahead.

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Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI, Teacher Voice Survey

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💡The Portrait of a Teacher in the Age of AI is a national project exploring how the role of teachers is changing with the rise of artificial intelligence. We hope to expand internationally in later years.

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Outlines how training and operating large AI models consume significant electricity, water, and hardware resources, driving carbon emissions and supply-chain impacts. It situates these concerns within MIT research on sustainable computing, aiming to raise public awareness and set up a follow-up piece on ways to reduce AI’s footprint...

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MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact

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MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.

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In the College Office, we look to AI for help in creating college visit itineraries and organizational tools for application completion. We're exploring a variety of ways to leverage AI in the college admission experience that will support student reflection and growth.

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How college students are reportedly using AI

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How college students are reportedly using AI

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Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and Jobs

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Key findings from Inside Higher Ed’s student survey on generative AI show that using the evolving technology hasn’t diminished the value of college in their view, but it could affect their critical thinking skills.

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Dr. Neill uses these prompts when working with high school students in their college application process.

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My ChatGPT Prompt Library — Dr. Jeffrey Neill, Ed.D.

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Explore “My Prompt Library,” a curated collection of the best ChatGPT prompts for high school college counselors. Discover time-saving, innovative, and student-centered prompt ideas to enhance your counseling practice, streamline administrative tasks, and support students through every stage of the

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Some ideas about the research process and AI, including tools STORM (Stanford's Research Tool) and Perplexity AI, as well as ideas about using chatbots to help create AI-resistant assessments.