The AI Education Conversation

As we enter a new school year, how has AI impacted educators?

Plus, ChatGPT's performance declines, businesses are experimenting with AI, and AI detects breast cancer.

Let me know what you think about today’s conversation @TheAIEdConvo on X.

In today’s episode I sit down with the manufacturing millennial, Jake Hall. Jake has built a huge following on social media by shedding light on the many cool, innovative automations happening in manufacturing. From machines which can pick up trash in a park, bake cookies, and improve so many facets of everyday life, Jake reminds us that manufacturing is awesome and so many opportunities exist in the sector.

Can AI revive manufacturing in education? If AI disrupts white collar jobs by automating communication in seconds, shouldn’t this mean we now expose our young people to new opportunities for the workforce they will be a part of?

Give Jake a follow at his socials below:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobrhall/

https://twitter.com/MFGMillennial

We've explored many ways AI hopes to bring transformation to the educational experience. When a school goes beyond dreaming and enters the hard work of implementation, does AI live up to its promise?

Steven Eno leads AI powered Project Leo at Da Vinci schools as an instructional coach/engineering pathway lead. Steven shares an inside look into his classroom and the experience behind Project Leo.

Plus, the IRS audits using AI, Google requires disclosure of AI political ads, and an analysis of school districts responding to AI in schools.

How will AI impact college admissions?

Today’s episode is a special one for me because I had the opportunity to interview Marie Bigham, someone who I’ve respected and looked up to because of her many contributions to the field of college access over her career. Most notably through founding the group ACCEPT.

In high schools across the world, seniors are undergoing an intensive season as they determine their next stop after high school. College admissions officers are scurring across the country to talk with schools about their institutions and awaiting the sea of applications headed their way as they make decisions on their freshman class in the next six months.

Amid this annual season, we’ve been thrown a huge monkey wrench in the form of artificial intelligence, which for many students, really caught on after last years submission cycle had ended.

This years application leaves some really big unanswered questions - How are colleges using AI? To what extent should students be using AI on their applications? How can AI transform the application and matriculation process as a whole?

Marie and I dig into all of these questions. Reflecting back on my conversation, all I can say is buckle your seat belt and get ready for the masterclass Marie delivers on the college admissions landscape.

Plus, ChatGPT gets an upgrade, the physical costs of AI, and AI deepfakes.

Show notes:

ACCEPT

Accelerated Equity Insights

Rick Clark Blog

Water and AI

AI Deepfakes

ChatGPT updates

OneGoal Partnership Summit

One year after AI has become mainstream, are we seeing states/districts integrate AI at scale?

My conversation with Bree was a journey through a vast landscape that is the current responses of state departments of education on AI, yet we also dive deep into the trenches around stakeholder decision making and dynamics between states, districts, and schools. 

Though the landscape is complex, I walked away from my conversation with Bree energized, as I hope you will. Energized because, though implementation is the single biggest challenge across education - we as a sector, do have enough collective knowledge, experiences, and lessons learned to implement AI effectively in a way that changes the world for my son and all young people.

AI updates + CRPE articles:

Dr. Hutson study

CRPE: Nation responses to AI

Gemini

CRPE: Slow it down

ASU AI in teaching

AI is disrupting all forms of art and media as we know it. We've seen lawsuits, strikes, and tools intended to fight back against AI because so many artists are having to compete against AI tools creating images, videos, text, and music instantly.

For our young people who aspire to be artists and content creators in a world of AI, how do prepare them to navigate this increasingly complex landscape?

As Lead XR Disruptor and Department Head of Art History + Visual Culture at Lindenwood University, Dr. James Hutson helps us makes sense of the current AI disruption and how aspiring artists can work together in our new world.

Brazil's first legislation written by AI

An AI influencer with 130k followers earning 10k+ monthly

Artists poisoning AI models

Is the next big AI breakthrough already here? In this episode, I walkthrough OpenAI's announcement, how to create a GPT for schools, my honest review, and the risks/opportunities.

As the new year kicks off, have schools started to adopt AI?

With a summer season to hold conversations and strategize around AI, I continue to wonder how schools, districts, and universities will use AI this school year. How will AI usage be different this school year? 

In today’s episode, I’m excited to chat with computer science and entrepreneurship student at the University of Pennsylvania, Aashika Vishwanath. 

Beyond her impressive knowledge of AI tools, Aashika shares her perspectives on the AI opportunity as a higher ed student as she returns to UPenn in the coming weeks. Aashika also leads Acaidemy, a huge youtube channel focused on AI.

Connect with Aashika or learn from her with one of the links below:

http://linkedin.com/in/aashikavishwanath

youtube.com/acadaimy

amazon.com/author/aashika

Plus, LA USD adopts AI chatbot, Iowa schools using AI to ban books, and AI workforce developments.

Has AI killed the essay? Do students actually need to learn how to write essays anymore? In a world of AI, how should we be reimagining reading and writing?

We know that over the last three years of the pandemic, the United States and many other countries saw unprecedented learning losses in students.

We also know these declines continue to happen at a pivotal moment in our technological history - a moment where anyone can enter a prompt with the words “create an essay on…” and instantly have a logically sound essay in seconds using AI.

As former teachers and fierce advocates for writing through their roles at Quill, Sherry Lewkowicz and Katie Moylan offer their perspectives on the role of writing, in addition to the work of Quill across schools.