"AI Is Here to Help, Not to Replace Anybody" says Researcher - Series 9 Episode 3
Release Date: 08/08/2024
Education in an AI age - Graham Brown-Martin
AI Education Podcast
and welcome , a seasoned expert in education technology, for a very(!) thought-provoking conversation about navigating education in the rapidly evolving age of artificial intelligence. In this episode: Discover Graham's journey through multiple technological revolutions—from early mainframes and pioneering laser-disc technology to modern-day AI. Hear stories from Graham's past, including his role in bringing together provocative figures like Katherine Birbalsingh and Malcolm McLaren to challenge the status quo in education. Reflect on the historical context of industrial revolutions...
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From Butterflies to Bias: Dr. Nici Sweaney on Building Responsible AI in Schools
AI Education Podcast
In this episode Dan and Ray sit down with Dr. Nici (Nikki) Sweaney—founder of “AI Her Way,” gender equality advocate, and globally recognized AI consultant. After a fascinating career journey from butterfly ecology to statistics to AI, Nici now helps schools and organizations create ethical, responsible, and effective AI strategies. She shares her insights on responsible AI adoption, gender equity, bias, and how schools can proactively plan for an AI-driven future. Follow Nici on LinkedIn: Make an Inquiry about PD for your school: Book Nici as a speaker Nici's...
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Faculty Perspectives on AI with Digital Education Council's Danny Bielik
AI Education Podcast
In this episode, Ray and Dan are joined by , to discuss the findings of a global AI faculty survey. With insights from 52 institutions across 28 countries, Danny shares how higher education faculty are adopting AI, the biggest concerns around academic integrity and assessment, and why AI literacy is still a challenge for many. Key topics include: 🔹 The real impact of AI on teaching and learning 🔹 How universities are using AI for teaching materials and admin 🔹 The debate on AI and job security for faculty 🔹 Why assessment and academic integrity need a rethink 🔹 How institutions...
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AI Book review, or News and Research?
AI Education Podcast
Book Club Podcast? Before we even got to the News and Research, this week we discussed the AI-related books we're currently reading: Dan's reading: , by Steven Johnson () , by Douglas Gray and Evan Shellshear () Ray's reading , by Kate Crawford () News Links Links to the reports and news we discuss in the episode: OpenAI's new Education newsletter Ethan Mollick's new "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" course on Coursera World Economic Forum "Future of Jobs report" Student expelled and deported because they were accused of using ChatGPT by their professor. So...
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AI Excellence: A Conversation with Katie Ford
AI Education Podcast
This week we get to catch up with , who tells us about the projects that have been happening in AI in Education around Australia, and shares some of the lessons learnt from the projects as well as what she is learning through her own research focus. The examples Katie discusses are: Tasmania Department of Education: Collaborated with Microsoft to enhance their data estate and prepare for AI applications aimed at identifying vulnerable children during COVID, helping to reveal overlooked demographics and improve interventions. University of New South Wales (UNSW): Engaged in multiple...
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Reflecting on 2024 and Predicting the Year Ahead
AI Education Podcast
And we're back! After a relaxing summer holiday Down Under (the school year finishes late December and doesn't restart until after the end of January in Australia) we've made it back to the studio to talk again. In this first episode of the 2025 'AI in Education' podcast, hosts Dan Bowen and Ray Fleming reflect on the major events and developments in AI during 2024. They discuss the importance of continuously addressing the adoption gap, the evolution of AI tools, and the pace of change in AI technology, exemplified by recent announcements like Project Stargate and DeepSeq. The episode...
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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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The TEQSA AI Toolkit for Generative AI
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...
info_outlineHoly smokes, we missed the party that should have been Episode 100! So now we're going to have a belated party episode later. Oh well, this week's episode is not to be stopped, so yet again Dan and Ray discuss the most interesting research on the use of AI in Education from the recent publications. But before that we started with a quick news summary. All the links are here:
News
California’s proposed law against AI replacing human professors
https://www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?story=20240702214317879
Animated AI Teaching Assistants Coming to Morehouse
Khanmigo for all!
https://x.com/khanacademy/status/1813665014911316237
Sign up for Khanmigo for Teachers in English: blog.khanacademy.org/khanmigo-world
Open AI
https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/07/this-week-in-ai-openais-talent-retention-woes/
Research Papers
SUMMATIVE EXAMS WITH THE USE OF CHATGPT: VISION OR REALISTIC ALTERNATIVE TO TRADITIONAL EXAMS?
https://library.iated.org/view/BAUME2024SUM
Note that this paper is one of the few that I'll flag that's behind a journal paywall. If you don’t have access, I'd suggest asking the author, Matthias Baume from TUM, if he's happy to share a copy
The great detectives: humans versus AI detectors in catching large language model-generated medical writing
https://edintegrity.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1007/s40979-024-00155-6
Jae Q. J. Liu, Kelvin T. K. Hui, Fadi Al Zoubi, Zing Z. X. Zhou, Curtis C. H. Yu, Jeremy R. Chang, Arnold Y. L. Wong - The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Dino Samartzis, Rush University Medical Center
Leveraging Large Language Model as Simulated Patients for Clinical Education
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13066
Yanzeng Li1 , Cheng Zeng2,3 , Jialun Zhong1 , Ruoyu Zhang1 , Minhao Zhang1 , Lei Zou1∗ 1Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University 2School of Computer Science, Wuhan University. 3CureFun Co.
Automated Assessment of Encouragement and Warmth in Classrooms Leveraging Multimodal Emotional Features and ChatGPT
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15310
"ChatGPT Is Here to Help, Not to Replace Anybody" -- An Evaluation of Students' Opinions On Integrating ChatGPT In CS Courses
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17443
Bruno Pereira Cipriano and Pedro Alves
Lusofona University, COPELABS, Lisbon, Portugal
Math Multiple Choice Question Generation via Human-Large Language Model Collaboration
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00864
Jaewook Lee, Andrew Lan - University of Massachusetts Amherst
Digory Smith, Simon Woodhead - Eedi
ChatGPT in Data Visualization Education: A Student Perspective
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00748
Nam Wook Kim, Grace Myers - Boston College; Hyung-Kwon Ko - KAIST; Benjamin Bach - INRIA
A Careful Examination of Large Language Model Performance on Grade School Arithmetic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.00332
Automated Generation of High-Quality Medical Simulation Scenarios Through Integration of Semi-Structured Data and Large Language Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19713
Scott Sumpter CHSOS, Canadian Surgical Technology and Advanced Robotics, London Health Sciences Centre
Outsmarting Artificial Intelligence in the Classroom—Incorporating Large Language Model-Based Chatbots into Teaching
https://publications.aaahq.org/iae/article/doi/10.2308/ISSUES-2023-064/12560
Juliane Wutzler, Worms University of Applied Sciences
University Students’ Self-Reported Reliance on ChatGPT for Learning: a Latent Profile Analysis
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666920X24000468
Ana Stojanov, Qian Liu , Joyce Hwee Ling Koh - University of Otage