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March News and Research Roundup

AI Education Podcast

Release Date: 03/01/2024

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AI Education Podcast

In September, the team organised "", 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: , Primary School Learning Leader at Concordia College in Adelaide , Director of Digital Pedagogies & Online Safety Education at the ACT Education Directorate , Director of Learning Technologies and ICT at St Michaels Grammar School in...

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AI Education Podcast

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   Empowering Education Leaders Toolkit   TEQSA Guidance for universities Danny Liu video   Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said   More than a quarter of new code at Google is generated by AI - The Verge   Apple...

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Series 10, Episode 3 This week's episode is an interview with , who's an interdisciplinary researcher and Associate Director at . 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 landscape of education assessments. The...

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AI Education Podcast

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): Proposals paper for introducing mandatory guardrails for AI in high-risk settings: Stanford's STORM Students give English HSC exam an F over use of image with ‘hallmarks’ of AI Investigation into the use of ChatGPT by a Child Protection worker - Office of the Victorian Information...

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AI Education Podcast

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 and 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 The two mini...

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This week we're joined by the brains behind South Australia's EdChat chatbot. It was the first state in Australia to start pilot a custom built generative AI chatbot for their schools, and we spent some time with the team to understand the success story. In the podcast, we heard from  (Director of Digital Architecture and Operations) and (AI Technical specialist), both from the Department for Education South Australia Find out more about the South Australia Department AI approach:  and details on their trial - Microsoft have written a case study on their News Centre here: ...

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AI Education Podcast

Unbelievably, it's our 5th Anniversary (AI-nniversary?) and to mark the milestone of an AI podcast that's had more pivots than a robot's legs, and more chat than a chatbot, we've pulled together some of the top episodes from the 108 episodes of the podcast so far, and got the band back together (regretfully, we were unable to persuade Beth Worral, who co-hosted in 2022-2023, to come back for our party podcast - she'd reached escape velocity), so you'll hear Dan, Ray and Lee reminiscing like old men in a shed. Great Guests & Top Episodes Our very first guest - Microsoft's Troy Waller...

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AI Education Podcast

News This week's news we rushed through includes "Study Buddy or Influencer?", the Australian Parliamentary Inquiry into the use of Gen AI in the Australia Education System  NSW EduChat has been extended for all teachers in all New South Wales Schools - Learn more about the  Microsoft announced Copilot Wave 2 OpenAI's new model o1-preview came out - and it's much, much better and logical reasoning and maths Find out what people think by looking at what (and, as I suggest on the podcast, keenly watch as he's benchmarking it now in the context of EduChat) Google released a...

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This week's guest is Professor Phillip Dawson, who is Co-Director of the at Deakin University in Australia. In addition to , we recommend following Phill on , or , where shares a lot of his work on the future of assessment, and also his passion project - The Peer Revue - where Phill combines his passion for academic research with his work in Improv Comedy. Every month he hosts a research who talks about their professional research, which is then turned into comedy gold by his improv team at (highly recommend keeping an eye out for this if you're in Melbourne) You can , and his LinkedIn...

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Series 9, Episode 9 - Homework and Sex   News How do people actually use ChatGPT?   Make AI tools to reduce teacher workloads, tech companies urged     New AI in Teams - and it's all free   Research Papers   Large Language Model as an Assignment Evaluator: Insights, Feedback, and Challenges in a 1000+ Student Course   Supporting Self-Reflection at Scale with Large Language Models: Insights from Randomized Field Experiments in Classrooms     Evaluating ChatGPT-4 Vision on Brazil's National Undergraduate Computer Science Exam ...

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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

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/01/more-than-half-uk-undergraduates-ai-essays-artificial-intelligence

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

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/feb/12/the-ai-chat-app-being-trialled-in-nsw-schools-which-makes-students-work-for-the-answers

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

https://www.federalregister.gov/public-inspection/2024-02623/guidance-inventorship-guidance-on-ai-assisted-inventions

 

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

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-16/ai-video-generator-sora-from-openai-latest-tech-launch/103475830

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:

 

Google's Gemini 1.5 is here…almost

https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/google-gemini-advanced-tasting-notes

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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

arXiv:2312.13581

 

Challenges and Opportunities of Moderating Usage of Large Language Models in Education

arXiv:2312.14969

 

ChatEd: A Chatbot Leveraging ChatGPT for an Enhanced Learning Experience in Higher Education

arXiv:2401.00052 

 

AI Content Self-Detection for Transformer-based Large Language Models

arXiv:2312.17289

 

Evaluating the Performance of Large Language Models for Spanish Language in Undergraduate Admissions Exams

arXiv:2312.16845

 

Taking the Next Step with Generative Artificial Intelligence: The Transformative Role of Multimodal Large Language Models in Science Education

arXiv:2401.00832

 

Empirical Study of Large Language Models as Automated Essay Scoring Tools in English Composition - Taking TOEFL Independent Writing Task for Example

arXiv:2401.03401

 

Using Large Language Models to Assess Tutors' Performance in Reacting to Students Making Math Errors

arXiv:2401.03238

 

Future-proofing Education: A Prototype for Simulating Oral Examinations Using Large Language Models

arXiv:2401.06160

 

How Teachers Can Use Large Language Models and Bloom's Taxonomy to Create Educational Quizzes

arXiv:2401.05914

 

How does generative artificial intelligence impact student creativity?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2713374523000316

 

Large Language Models As MOOCs Graders

arXiv:2402.03776 

 

Can generative AI and ChatGPT outperform humans on cognitive-demanding problem-solving tasks in science?

arXiv:2401.15081