How Teachers Are Talking About AI in Education

This episode will release on YouTube on September 18 at 11 am and first aired on WDJY FM 99.1 in Atlanta at 4 pm on September 11, 2024. These shownotes are provided for our radio and television viewers and listeners until the show releases. The YouTube video will be posted here when it goes live.

Note that the interviews below are excerpts of original podcasts that posted on the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast.

Show Resources

5:30 https://www.perplexity.ai/

5:46 AI Presentation Makers

6:57 AI and Ethics – excerpt of an interview with Jason Thacker

Episode 684: “AI and Algorithms Can Be Biased… So What Should We Do About It?“

Guest: Jason Thacker

Original Release Date: July 1, 2020

12:52 Examples of positive uses of applications of AI in our world today and concerns as it relates to children in schools.

• World Economic Forum – the Future of Jobs Report 2020, published October 20, 2020.
• “Leading a Workforce Empowered by New AI Tools” Harvard Business Review Podcast, episode 989, August 29, 2023. (This podcast cites the story about the Home Depot employee of the year I mentioned in the show.)
• Convert Google Forms into practice sets in Google Classroom, Google Workspace Updates, January 5, 2024.
• Ai Generated questions
• META’s AI Model that Translates Languages
• If AI is so good, why are there still so many jobs for translators? Planet Money. NPR. June 18, 2024.
• AI Archives from coolcatteacher.com
• Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC), formed February 8, 2024.
• Children and robots (concerns of misrepresentation of a robot).
  • In a 2012 study about children’s social and moral relationship with a humanoid robot, 9, 12, and 15 year olds interacted with a humanoid robot named Robovie. At the end of the session, against Robovie’s objections, the robot was put into a closet.
  • The responses of the children? So, 93% and 67% of 9 year olds said it had feeling while 70% and 43% of 15 year olds said the same thing.  Our children can easily be confused as to the “humanness” of something and while they can be encouraged to “trust” something – the question is — should they?
• Using AI to Encourage Productive Struggle in Math by Vicki Davis, Edutopioa. September 21, 2023.
• “COVID crushed math grades. There’s an app for that.” USA Today. March 27, 2021.
• Why Every School Needs an AI Policy Right Now. Coolcatteacher.com. September 22, 2023.

21:44 an experiment with Chat GPT with teacher Steve Dembo

Episode 802: “The Great Student AI Writing Experiment“

Guest: Steve Dembo

Original Release Date: August 1, 2023

Link: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/ai-writing-student-papers-steve-dembo/ 

26:33 Experiments in my classroom with AI and writing

27:24 How one professor is adjusting to the use of AI in her classroom as she teaches English Language Learners. Laurel discusses her frustrations, how she changed her midterm, and a new way she’s doing discussion forums that actually works. We also discussed how AI detectors don’t work. When she tells students it is ok to use AI.

Episode 856: “How to Prevent AI Cheating: Integrity in the AI Age“

Guest: Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff

Original Release Date: July 29, 2024

Link: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/how-to-prevent-ai-cheating-integrity-in-the-ai-age/ 

• AI Detectors don’t work

38:52 The Artificial Intelligence tools that promote equity and help students learn.

Episode 859: “How to Use AI to Promote Equity Now“

Guest: Victoria Thompson

Original Release Date: August 18, 2024

Link: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/how-to-use-ai-to-promote-equity/ 

44:00 AI Ethics and the Eliza Effect

Episode 855: “The Eliza Effect and Other Problems with AI“

Guest: Tom Mullaney

Original Release Date: June 8, 2024

Link: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/some-big-ai-problems-the-eliza-effect-and-more/ 

48:14 Diversity in Computer Science and the future of our world and its success.

Episode 860: “How California is Improving Computer Science Education“

Guest: Omar Shepherd

Original Release Date: August 26, 2024

Link: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/how-california-computer-science-teaching-professional-development/ 

52:50 Technology Tips for Teachers Using AI

Innovate Like a Turtle mentioned in 5 Simple Ways to Improve Teacher Professional Development Now, December 19, 2023. coolcatteacher.com by Vicki Davis