S10 E11 AI Podcast Wrapped for 2024
AI Education Podcast
We look back on the highlights of 2024, and the mass of stories, challenges and inspirations we had throughout the year. And what a year - AI in education has been moving so fast we even invited two digital AI podcasters to take over half the episode. And, worryingly, they did an amazing job - listen for yourself... We're going to take a break over the Australian school holidays, but then we'll be back with at the end of January 2025. If you miss us, then please go and give us a rating or review in Spotify or Apple Podcasts, and that'll encourage us to return with even more energy for 2025! We...
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AI News (and no research!)
AI Education Podcast
A heap of news stories this week means we didn't cover any research at all! AI isn’t a tool, it’s an environment by Josh Thorpe Australian Senate report into Adoption of AI Ethan Mollick's course on Coursera: "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" I'll also recommend his book - Co-Intelligence - as a great Christmas gift for yourself or a friend Open AI announced Open AI Pro @ $200/m We like Ethan Mollick's example that showed what it could do - solving this problem and creating a working app in 15 minutes - see here: Microsoft Copilot...
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S10 E9 - TEQSA AI Toolkit
AI Education Podcast
This week's episode discussed the new AI toolkit for generative AI strategies from Australia's Higher Education regulator, The full toolkit is available here: During the episode we referenced some of the podcasts when we'd had the chance to interview some of the people from The University of Sydney who were used as case studies in the toolkit, and here's the link to previous podcast episodes that might be helpful to go back to for more depth: The University of Sydney's Cogniti AI bot The University of Sydney's Two Lane approach to assessment We'd also recommend...
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Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and Research
AI Education Podcast
Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and ResearchSeries 10, Episode 8 We explore quite a lot of news related to AI in Education that arrived this week, which meant we didn't get to cover nearly as many academic research papers as we'd hoped. Oh well, there's still 4 episodes left this year to catch up 😊 News Open AI released a course for teachers The AI Art Turing Test Overview: Direct link to the Avoiding the Discriminatory Use of Artificial Intelligence Brisbane Catholic Education's announcement on "AI for everybody" New research from Google Workspace and The Harris Poll shows...
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AI - Study Buddy or Influencer? Series 10, Episode 7
AI Education Podcast
This week's episode is a discussion of the Australian Parliamentary report on AI in Education, "". The report highlights both the opportunities and challenges GenAI presents, focusing on student and teacher perspectives, ethical considerations, regulatory approaches, and potential solutions. The report makes many recommendations, with the very first being significant on many levels: "The Committee recommends that the Australian Government: consider making the use of GenAI in education a national priority" and are joined by guest, , an Education Consultant for Generative AI for the ...
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Deception and Deepfakes - News & Research
AI Education Podcast
Another News & Research episode this week, and lots of interesting links and research discussed. Here's the weblinks for everything! News Deception and Deepfakes - How genAI is Changing Cyber Safety Course: Leon Furzes online course, where he made a free course about deepfakes hosted by a deepfake, with deepfake content about deepfakes McKinsey surveyed 1363 working professionals across countries, industries, and demographics about the use of generative AI at their work places. The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans...
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AI for AussieEd week, with Toddle
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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Research - How are students using AI - Series 10 Episode 4
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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Anna Denejkina - Insight Centre
AI Education Podcast
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 Research - Apostles, Agnostics and Atheists
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...
info_outlineThe 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 advantage of the technology to help improve support for learning for students.
This episode looks at one key news announcement - the EU AI Act - and a dozen new research papers on AI in education.
News
EU AI Act
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20240308IPR19015/artificial-intelligence-act-meps-adopt-landmark-law
The European Parliament approved the AI Act on 13 March and there's some stuff in here that would make good practice guidance. And if you're developing AI solutions for education, and there's a chance that one of your customers or users might be in the EU, then you're going to need to follow these laws (just like GDPR is an EU law, but effectively applies globally if you're actively offering a service to EU residents).
The Act bans some uses of AI that threaten citizen's rights - such as social scoring and biometric identification at mass level (things like untargeted facial scanning of CCTV or internet content, emotion recognition in the workplace or schools, and AI built to manipulate human behaviour) - and for the rest it relies on regulation according to categories.
High Risk AI systems have to be assessed before being deployed and throughout their lifecycle.
In the High Risk AI category it includes critical infrastructure (like transport and energy), product safety, law enforcement, justice and democratic processes, employment decision making - and Education. So decision making using AI in education needs to do full risk assessments, maintain usage logs, be transparent and accurate - and ensure human oversight. Examples of decision making that would be covered would be things like exam scoring, student recruitment screening, or behaviour management.
General generative AI - like chatgpt or co-pilots - will not be classified as high risk, but they'll still have obligations under the Act to do things like clear labelling for AI generated image, audio and video content ; make sure there's it can't generate illegal content, and also disclose what copyright data was used for training.
But, although general AI may not be classified as high risk, if you then use that to build a high risk system - like an automated exam marker for end-of-school exams, then this will be covered under the high risk category.
All of this is likely to become law by the middle of the year, and by the end of 2024 prohibited AI systems will be banned - and by mid-2025 the rules will start applying for other AI systems.
Research
Another huge month. I spent the weekend reviewing a list of 350 new papers published in the first two weeks of March, on Large Language Models, ChatGPT etc, to find the ones that are really interesting for the podcast
Adapting Large Language Models for Education: Foundational Capabilities, Potentials, and Challenges
A Study on Large Language Models' Limitations in Multiple-Choice Question Answering
Dissecting Bias of ChatGPT in College Major Recommendations
Evaluating Large Language Models in Analysing Classroom Dialogue
The Future of AI in Education: 13 Things We Can Do to Minimize the Damage
https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/372vr
Scaling the Authoring of AutoTutors with Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09216
Role-Playing Simulation Games using ChatGPT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09161
Economic and Financial Learning with Artificial Intelligence: A Mixed-Methods Study on ChatGPT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.15278
A Study on the Vulnerability of Test Questions against ChatGPT-based Cheating
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14881
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Into Athletic Training Education: Developing Case-Based Scenarios Using ChatGPT
https://meridian.allenpress.com/atej/article/19/1/42/498456
Incorporating Artificial Intelligence Into Athletic Training Education: Developing Case-Based Scenarios Using ChatGPT
https://meridian.allenpress.com/atej/article/19/1/42/498456
RECIPE4U: Student-ChatGPT Interaction Dataset in EFL Writing Education
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08272
Comparison of the problem-solving performance of ChatGPT-3.5, ChatGPT-4, Bing Chat, and Bard for the Korean emergency medicine board examination question bank
Comparing the quality of human and ChatGPT feedback of students’ writing
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959475224000215