Series 8 opener - Assessment
AI Education Podcast
It's time to start a new series, so welcome to Series 8! This episode is the warm up into the series that's going to be focused on Assessment. We'll interview some fascinating people about what's happening in school and university assessment, how we might think differently about assessing students, and what you can be thinking about if you're a teacher. There's no shownotes, links or anything else for your homework for this episode - just listen and enjoy! Dan and Ray
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News & Research Roundup 28 March
AI Education Podcast
The season-ending episode for Series 7, this is the fifteenth in the series that started on 1st November last year with the "Regeneration: Human Centred Educational AI" episode. And it's an unbelievable 87th episode for the podcast (which started in September 2019). When we come back with Series 8 after a short break for Easter, we're going to take a deeper dive into two specific use cases for AI in Education. The first we'll discuss is Assessment, where there's both a threat and opportunity created by AI. And the second topic is AI Tutors, where there's more of a focus on how we can take...
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The University of Sydney's Cogniti AI bot
AI Education Podcast
This week we talked with Professor Danny Liu and Dr Joanne Hinitt, of The University of Sydney, about the Cogniti AI service that's been created in the university, and how it's being used to support teaching and learning. Danny is a molecular biologist by training, programmer by night, researcher and academic developer by day, and educator at heart. He works at the confluence of educational technology, student engagement, artificial intelligence, learning analytics, pedagogical research, organisational leadership, and professional development. He is currently a Professor in the Educational...
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March News and Research Roundup
AI Education Podcast
It's a News and Research Episode this week There has been a lot of AI news and AI research that's related to education since our last Rapid Rundown, so we've had to be honest and drop 'rapid' from the title! Despite talking fast, this episode still clocked in just over 40 minutes, and we really can't out what to do - should we talk less, cover less news and research, or just stop worrying about time, and focus instead on making sure we bring you the key things every episode? News More than half of UK undergraduates say they use AI to help with essays This...
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Is AI the saviour of teaching? Leanne Cameron's perspective on AI across the teaching profession
AI Education Podcast
This week's episode is our final interview recorded at the AI in Education Conference at Western Sydney University at the end of last year. Over the last few months you have had the chance to hear many different voices and perspectives Leanne Cameron, is a Senior Lecturer in Education Technologies, from James Cook University in Queensland. Over her career Leanne's worked at a number of Australian universities, focusing on online learning and teacher education, and so has a really solid grasp of the reality - and potential - of education technology. She explores the use of AI in lesson...
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News Rapid Rundown - December and January's AI news
AI Education Podcast
This week's episode is an absolute bumper edition. We paused our Rapid Rundown of the news and research in AI for the Australian summer holidays - and to bring you more of the recent interviews. So this episode we've got two months to catch up with! We also started mentioning Ray's AI Workshop in Sydney on 20th February. Three hours of exploring AI through the lens of organisational leaders, and a Design Thinking exercise to cap it off, to help you apply your new knowledge in company with a small group. Details & tickets here: And now, all the links to every news article and research...
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The Impact of AI in Higher Education: Interviews
AI Education Podcast
In this second episode of 2024, we bring you excerpts from interviews conducted at the AI in education conference at Western Sydney University in late 2023. In this week's episode, we dive deep into the world of AI in higher education and discuss its transformative potential. From personalised tutoring to improved assessment methods, we discuss how AI is revolutionising the teaching and learning experience. Section 1: In this interview, Vitomir, a senior lecturer at UniSA Education Futures, shares his perspective on AI in education. Vitomir highlights the major impact that generative AI is...
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Education, Data, and Generative AI - A Futurist Perspective with Kate Carruthers
AI Education Podcast
The podcast was a special dual-production episode between the AI and Education podcast, and the , welcoming Ray Fleming and Kate Carruthers as the guests. The conversation centred around the transformation of the traditional data systems in education to incorporating AI. , the Chief Data and Insights Officer at the University of New South Wales, and Head of Business Intelligence for the UNSW AI Institute, discussed the use of data in the business and research-related aspects of higher education. On the other hand, Fleming, the Chief Education Officer at InnovateGPT, elaborated on the growth...
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Joe Dale - the ultimate Christmas AI gift list
AI Education Podcast
Our final episode for 2024 is an absolutely fabulous Christmas gift, full of a lots of presents in the form of different AI tips and services Joe Dale, who's a UK-based education ICT & Modern Foreign Languages consultant, spends 50 lovely minutes sharing a huge list of AI tools for teachers and ideas for how to get the most out of AI in learning. We strongly recommend you find and follow Joe on or And if you're a language teacher, join Joe's Facebook group Joe's also got an upcoming webinar series on using on Mondays - 10.00, 19.00 and 21.30 GMT (UTC) in January - 8th,...
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Revolutionising Classrooms: Inside the New Australian AI Frameworks with their Creators
AI Education Podcast
In todays epsiode, Inside the New Australian AI Frameworks with their Creators, we speak to Andrew Smith of ESA and AI guru Leon Furze. This should have been the rapid news rundown, and you may remember that 20 minutes before the last rapid news rundown (two weeks ago), the new was published. So we ditched our plans to give you a full new rundown this week, and instead found a couple of brilliant guests to talk on the podcast about the new framework, and what it means for school leaders and teachers in Australian schools. Some key links from todays episode to learn more:...
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There has been a lot of AI news and AI research that's related to education since our last Rapid Rundown, so we've had to be honest and drop 'rapid' from the title! Despite talking fast, this episode still clocked in just over 40 minutes, and we really can't out what to do - should we talk less, cover less news and research, or just stop worrying about time, and focus instead on making sure we bring you the key things every episode?
News
More than half of UK undergraduates say they use AI to help with essays
This was from a Higher Education Policy Institute of 1,000 students, where they found 53% are using AI to generate assignment material.
- 1 in 4 are using things like ChatGPT and Bard to suggest topics
- 1 in 8 are using it to create content
- And 1 in 20 admit to copying and pasting unedited AI-generated text straight into their assignments
Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake ‘chief financial officer’
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html
An HK-based employee of a multinational firm wired out $25M after attending a video call where all employees were deepfaked, including the CFO. He first got an email which was suspicious but then was reassured on the video call with his “coworkers.”
NSW Department of Education Launch NSW EduChat
NSW are rolling out a trial to 16 public schools of a chatbot built on Open AI technology, but without giving students and staff unfettered access to ChatGPT. Unlike ChatGPT, the app has been designed to only respond to questions that relate to schooling and education, via content-filtering and topic restriction. It does not reveal full answers or write essays, instead aiming to encourage critical thinking via guided questions that prompt the student to respond – much like a teacher.
The Productivity Commission has thoughts on AI and Education
https://www.pc.gov.au/research/completed/making-the-most-of-the-ai-opportunity
The PC released a set of research papers about "Making the most of the AI opportunity", looking at Productivity, Regulation and Data Access.
They do talk about education in two key ways:
- "Recent improvements in generative AI are expected to present opportunities for innovation in publicly provided services such as healthcare, education, disability and aged care, which not only account for a significant part of the Australian economy but also traditionally exhibit very low productivity growth"
- "A challenge for tertiary education institutions will be to keep up to date with technological developments and industry needs. As noted previously by the Commission, short courses and unaccredited training are often preferred by businesses for developing digital and data skills as they can be more relevant and up to date, as well as more flexible"
Yes, AI-Assisted Inventions can be inventions
News from the US, that may set a precedent for the rest of the world. Patents can be granted for AI-assisted inventions - including prompts, as long as there's significant contribution from the human named on the patent
Not news, but Ray mentioned his Very British Chat bot. Sadly, you need the paid version of ChatGPT to access it as it's one of the public GPTs, but if you have that you'll find it here: Very British Chat
Sora was announced
Although it was the same day that Google announced Gemini 1.5, we led with Sora here - just like the rest of the world's media did!
On the podcast, we didn't do it justice with words, so instead here's four threads on X that are worth your time to read\watch to understand what it can do:
- Taking a video, and changing the style/environment: https://x.com/minchoi/status/1758831659833602434?s=20
- Some phenomenally realistic videos: https://x.com/AngryTomtweets/status/1759171749738840215?s=20 (remember, despite how 'real' these videos appear, none of these places exist outside of the mind of Sora!)
- Bling Zoo: https://x.com/billpeeb/status/1758223674832728242?s=20
- This cooking grandmother does not exist: https://x.com/sama/status/1758219575882301608?s=20 (A little bit like her mixing spoon, that appears to exist only for mixing and then doesn't)
Google's Gemini 1.5 is here…almost
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/google-gemini-advanced-tasting-notes
Research Papers
Google's Gemini 1.5 can translate languages it doesn't know
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_v1_5_report.pdf
Google also published a 58 page report on what their researchers had found with it, and we found the section on translation fascinating.
Sidenote: There's an interesting Oxford Academic research project report from last year that was translating cuneiform tablets from Akkadian into English, which didn't use Large Language Models, but set the thinking going on this aspect of using LLMs
Understanding the Role of Large Language Models in Personalizing and Scaffolding Strategies to Combat Academic Procrastination
Challenges and Opportunities of Moderating Usage of Large Language Models in Education
ChatEd: A Chatbot Leveraging ChatGPT for an Enhanced Learning Experience in Higher Education
AI Content Self-Detection for Transformer-based Large Language Models
Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models for Spanish Language in Undergraduate Admissions Exams
Taking the Next Step with Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Transformative Role of Multimodal Large Language Models in Science Education
Empirical Study of Large Language Models as Automated Essay Scoring Tools in English Composition - Taking TOEFL Independent Writing Task for Example
Using Large Language Models to Assess Tutors' Performance in Reacting to Students Making Math Errors
Future-proofing Education: A Prototype for Simulating Oral Examinations Using Large Language Models
How Teachers Can Use Large Language Models and Bloom's Taxonomy to Create Educational Quizzes
How does generative artificial intelligence impact student creativity?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374523000316
Large Language Models As MOOCs Graders
Can generative AI and ChatGPT outperform humans on cognitive-demanding problem-solving tasks in science?