Matt’s Notes
It’s midway through January, and somehow we are at Episode number fifteen! We are seriously glad you’re joining us!
A few points before this post goes out the door!
- The word I was trying for during the recording was Pollyanna (noun): a person characterized by irrepressible optimism and a tendency to find good in everything.
- My desktop computer’s hard drive was fried as a result of a power surge in my apartment… the Geek Squad team member who restored the computer for me provided me a recovery thumb drive… in case this happens again… which it might…
- Hence the delay in certain aspects of getting this podcast ready… as well as Today New Brunswick, Tomorrow the World… not that you’d necessarily notice!
- I’ve been moved lately by both Freire’s Pedagogy of the Heart and Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records. The former uses metaphor and allegory to tap into teaching and learning as a necessarily political act; the latter describes how a fiercely independent punk band and their record label grew from a small mail order operation to a multi-pronged… corporate entity… changing the course of music within fewer than ten years… this is a case where my interest in education overlaps nicely with my interest in punk and alternative music… and the independent arts, generally…
- As far as the topic of the day… AI in education… I have had very little exposure up until now… but was sufficiently compelled by many of Doug’s points… that this is an area I will have to return to… hopefully on this show…
As ever, we are grateful to you for checking out this EnT!
Doug’s Notes
AI & Education: The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Early Works 1970-1982 SCHOLAR, SOPHIE, GUIDON, MYCIN
During the first phase of AI in Education, research was limited to building illustrations that showed ideas at work on toy domains.
Woolf, B. (1991). AI in Education. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Department of Computer and Information Science.
Using AI technology, learning analytics are purported to optimize the efficiency of and responsiveness to student learning experiences and, in doing so, to address inequities in formal and informal education.
Dixon-Román, E., Nichols, T. P., & Nyame-Mensah, A. (2020). The racializing forces of/in AI educational technologies. Learning, Media and Technology, 45(3), 236-250.
… the development of technologies and programmes that fully support pedagogical ventures should become an imperative, because this will lead to general improvements in education. It is also understood that the technologisation of education will support students who often feel disadvantaged by the traditional educational system, improving their performances through access to computers and internet.
Guilherme, A. (2019). AI and education: the importance of teacher and student relations. AI & society, 34(1), 47-54.
… we find no detectable effect of the school VM ban on the average diet of French secondary school children, at least in its first two years of application.
Capacci, S., Mazzocchi, M., & Shankar, B. (2018). Breaking habits: the effect of the French vending machine ban on school snacking and sugar intakes. Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, 37(1), 88-111.
And now for the non-academic material…
Academics
Semantic Scholar: A free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature.
A college student created an app that can tell whether AI wrote an essay.
Search
ChatGPT for Google: ChatGPT response alongside search engine results.
The AI search engine you control.
Visual Art
Elsewhere in the media…
Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks
Microsoft’s new VALL-EI AI can clone your voice from a three-second audio clip.
CNET Has Been Quietly Publishing AI-Written Articles for Months
Will the ban on AI accomplish anything?
A partial list of things banned from schools:
- AI (Artificial Intelligence)
- Bart Simpsons merchandise
- Pokémon cards
- Books: Many many links for this one…
- Mobile phones & UGGs
- Gel Pens
- Calculators
- Clothes – Spaghetti strap shirts, Yoga pants, Skirts & shorts, bunny hugs
- Social Media
- Fidget Spinners
- Pogs
- Red Ink
- Backpacks
- Sugary snacks Vending Machines (VM)
Word of the podcast:
technologisation
Question of the podcast:
Does AI send education down a problematic path?
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