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 https://www.commonsense.org/education/training/chatgpt-k12-foundations

The AI Art Turing Test Overview: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/how-did-you-do-on-the-ai-art-turing Direct link to the AI Turing Test form

Avoiding the Discriminatory Use of Artificial Intelligence https://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-laws/avoiding-discriminatory-use-of-artificial-intelligence

Brisbane Catholic Education's announcement on "AI for everybody" https://www.bne.catholic.edu.au/news/Pages/Brisbane-Catholic-Education-making-significant-inroads-with-AI-enabled-teaching-and-learning-.aspx https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/features/brisbane-catholic-education-to-deploy-microsoft-365-copilot-to-12500-educators-and-support-staff-in-largest-rollout-for-k-12-globally/

New research from Google Workspace and The Harris Poll shows rising leaders are embracing AI to drive impact at work https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-research-from-google-workspace-and-the-harris-poll-shows-rising-leaders-are-embracing-ai-to-drive-impact-at-work-302314697.html

TEQSA Paper on GenAI Strategies for Higher Education https://www.teqsa.gov.au/guides-resources/resources/corporate-publications/gen-ai-strategies-australian-higher-education-emerging-practice 

Research

Unipa-GPT: Large Language Models for university-oriented QA in Italian https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.14246

Boosting Large Language Models with Socratic Method for Conversational Mathematics Teaching https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.17349

LessonPlanner: Assisting Novice Teachers to Prepare Pedagogy-Driven Lesson Plans with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.01102

Automated Educational Question Generation at Different Bloom's Skill Levels using Large Language Models: Strategies and Evaluation https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.04394

Could ChatGPT get an Engineering Degree? Evaluating Higher Education Vulnerability to AI Assistants https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.11841