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Research Roundup - 14th June

AI Education Podcast

Release Date: 06/13/2024

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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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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 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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More Comp Sci research! News and Research - Episode 10 of Series 9 show art More Comp Sci research! News and Research - Episode 10 of Series 9

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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AI Education Podcast

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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AI Education Podcast

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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More Episodes

This week we set the episode timer for 15 minutes, and managed to get through just five papers before the buzzer went off! So we have plenty more papers to discuss in future episodes...

ENHANCING K-12 STUDENTS’ PERFORMANCE IN CHEMISTRY THROUGH CHATGPT-POWERED BLENDED LEARNING IN THE EDUCATION 4.0 ERA

https://library.iated.org/view/ORTIZDEZARATE2024ENH

 

Empowering student self-regulated learning and science education through ChatGPT: A pioneering pilot study

https://bera-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/bjet.13454

 

ChatGPT “contamination”: estimating the prevalence of LLMs in the scholarly literature

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16887

 

Monitoring AI-Modified Content at Scale: A Case Study on the Impact of ChatGPT on AI Conference Peer Reviews

https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07183

 

Large language models are able to downplay their cognitive abilities to fit the persona they simulate

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0298522