AI Education Podcast

Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and Research
Series 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