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AI Education Podcast

Release Date: 08/17/2024

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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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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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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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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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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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This week we hear from , from and   In the podcast, Rose mentioned the 1% project in Finland from 2020 -  Through Educate Ventures Research there are a range of AI consultancy and training services for schools, including the Rose also has a monthy newsletter "" which has an extensive reading list every edition, on a number of AI topics, not just what's happening in education.

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More Episodes

BONUS EPISODE ! We'd love to meet more of our listeners in person, so here's a list of events over the next few weeks when Dan, Ray, or Dan and Ray are speaking about AI in Education. One of the things that makes the podcast special is the amazing stories we get from our guests, and there's more stories than fit into an episode, and we're always on the lookout for more. So come and say hi at any of these events, and per   haps we can share an untold story, or you can tell us yours!

August 

19 August - Melbourne - Ray

Melbourne EdTech Summit

Ray's on the panel discussing "The Transformed Learning Landscape Through AI" at this event for edtech companies and universities

21 August - Sydney - Ray - Free event

The Future of Human AI - IATD

If you're in Sydney, the Institute of Applied Technology has scheduled the perfect event on Wednesday evening (starting at 6PM). Ray's hosting the free learning session "The Future of Human AI", designed for the thousands of small businesses and employees around Western Sydney who want to make sense of the AI hype and start to understand what everybody else is talking about. If you're a teacher, you'll also walk away with some good ideas of how businesses are using AI to help with your discussion of AI in the classroom

 

23 August - Sydney - Dan

AI in Education Conference | Teaching Tomorrow: Harnessing AI Tools Today

Organised by friends of the podcast Matt Esterman and Nick Jackson at WSU's Parramatta campus, it'll be a festival of ideas from a great lineup of teachers. Dan's one of the speakers, and will be wearing his Microsoft badge on the day, talking about all the latest great tech announcements from that world.

 

September

3 September - Online - Dan - Free event

Build a Bot in Copilot Studio

Doing his day job, Dan's taking part in this online workshop designed to help Microsoft Copilot users build their own bot. Like Build a Bear workshop, but with less bear and more bot. Open to any Microsoft customers in Australia and New Zealand.

 

4 September - Christchurch, NZ - Ray

NZ Tertiary ICT Conference

For New Zealand listeners Ray's heading over the ditch to deliver a keynote called "AI, why?" at the annual conference for digital teams of universities and polytechnics. If you're going to be there, please say Hi!

 

12-13 September - Adelaide - Ray

HE FEST 24

Ray's taking part in the "Marketing, Recruitment, Advancement and AI in Higher Education Conference" in Adelaide. Ray's on a panel discussion "The place of AI in university " with Eddie Major, on applications of AI beyond teaching and learning, and then delivering the closing keynote, grandly titled "The future of HE - The future of higher education in a world where gen AI is ubiquitous"

 

16-19 September - Online - Dan and Ray - Free event

Toddle's AI for AussieEd online event 

The toddle team have pulled together 20 speakers from across Australia, who will be talking about assessment, LMSs, chatbots, the AI Framework for schools, leadership and data-driven learning. And tacked on right at the end of the run, at 5:15 on the 19th, we're going to have a crack at a live podcast recording