Teens Push to Broaden A.I. Literacy — AI for Education. We love this article from the NY Times highlighting students’ push for AI literacy in their school. This article echoes so much of what we see when working with students on AI ethics and literacy. For those who run into the paywall, here are the key points: ✅ What are they hearing from adults/teachers?
Students feel like they are getting a lot of mixed messages. Teachers warn against using AI for cheating and som school districts are banning or blocking AI Chatbots. Meanwhile tech leaders and the news cycles between AI’s incredible potential for good and harm. ✅ How are students using AI? At River Dell High in New Jersey, students in the Human Rights Club – supported by their teachers and administration - conducted an anonymous school-wide survey on AI, revealing students' curiosity and desire for ethical guidelines on AI use. Less than 10% reported using ChatGPT for plagiarism. ✅What do students want? “I think kids need to be able to critique it and assess it and use it” said one senior. 4 ways to ensure academic integrity as AI tools gain popularity. Key points: In a recent report by ACT Inc., high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work.
Additionally a survey by Common Sense found that 77 percent of parents are excited about the potential of AI in education. But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer. One key question is, “How do school and district leaders ensure academic integrity as new technologies continue to emerge, like generative artificial intelligence applications such as ChatGPT, Bard, Claude, and more?” With more than 17 years of experience as an academic integrity manager at a virtual school, I’ve learned the ins and outs of how to preserve academic integrity in an online learning environment. 1. Human judgment remains paramount in discerning academic integrity.
For example, we recently had a student who received a high artificial detection score for his work. 2. 3. 4. How School Districts Are Setting Up AI Policies. When ChatGPT debuted last November, Danny Robertozzi, superintendent of Clifton Public Schools (CPS) in New Jersey, moved quickly to ban the service on school devices—as did many district leaders across the country. “We have to stop this. This will be the end of education as we know it,” Robertozzi said, describing his thinking. But by the spring of 2023, it was clear that artificial intelligence wasn’t going away anytime soon.
Teachers and students in Robertozzi’s district clamored to use the tools, making him wonder if he was doing them a disservice by not allowing them to experiment with this powerful technology. Robertozzi, and many other district leaders who initially blocked AI, decided to change course. For CPS, that looked like opening up select AI tools for limited teacher use, with a longer term goal of allowing wider student access once more is understood about the risks around issues like cheating, data privacy, and copyright liability. Jumping In A Duty To Forge Ahead. Student Guide for AI Use — AI for Education.
Updated 1/16/24: As we continue to work with schools, districts, and non-profits to create GenAI guidelines for students and teachers, our approach continues to evolve. Along these lines we have updated our Student GenAI Use Guide to incorporate two major shifts in our guidance: 1️⃣ Shifting from Citations to a Statement of GenAI Use We absolutely believe that students 13-18 should be trained to ethically adopt GenAI tools to support their own learning and creativity. But there has been a major question on how we normalize the use of these tools. While MLA or APA citations are a great start, we think there is need for a new approach for GenAI use. 2️⃣ Generative Search for Research As generative search engines like Perplexity continue to improve, they provide a great opportunity for students to be able to use GenSearch for research purposes.
AI Use in Education (Sharon Stoerger, Rutgers SCI) Student Use Cases for AI Start by Sharing These Guidelines with Your Class (Ethan Mollick / Lilach Mollick) Writing school AI policies? Use these 10+ resources. A Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education – Critical AI. By: Kathryn Conrad [Critical AI 2.1 is a special issue, co-edited by Lauren M.E. Goodlad and Matthew Stone, collecting interdisciplinary essays and think pieces on a wide range of topics involving Large Language Models.
Below, a sneak preview from the issue: Kathryn Conrad‘s important “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights for Education”] Safe and Effective Systems: You should be protected from unsafe or ineffective systems. With these principles as a starting point, I propose a supplemental set of rights for educators and students. These are intended as the beginning rather than the end of the conversation, a foundation on which policies and protections can be based. Rights for Educators Input on Purchasing and Implementation You should have input into institutional decisions about purchasing and implementation of any automated and/or generative system (“AI”) that affects the educational mission broadly conceived.
Input on Policies Professional Development Autonomy Protection of Legal Rights. Academic integrity in the age of AI. The recent surge of text generative AI has everyone in the education world talking. Think pieces, blogs, and social media are full of questions with no clear answers, yet educators are already facing these issues in classrooms. No longer a potential issue in the future, AI-generated text is present and likely closer than many educators would prefer. Still, consider the adaptations that educators have made successfully in the past. The shift to using a search engine to locate information online rather than the card catalog to locate print text shifted the way research skills are taught in the not too distant past.
AI-generated text is the next big shift in the education world. Let’s seize these opportunities to truly make our teaching and learning match the world our students inhabit. As AI evolves, so will our resources, so bookmark this page and plan to revisit it regularly for helpful information and strategies. How AI could save (not destroy) education (Sal Khan) A Deep Dive into the Ethics, Literacy, and Application of AI | by Doug Belshaw | Oct, 2023 | We Are Open Co-op. Should schools ban or integrate generative AI in the classroom? | Brookings. The start of a new school year is soon approaching, but there is a major question left unresolved: What are schools going to do about generative AI? Since ChatGPT’s release on November 30, 2022, educators have been slow to address questions regarding whether to allow its use in the classroom and how the tool affects pedagogy, student learning, and creativity. Debates have been intense among stakeholders—including teachers, parents, students, and edtech developers—about the opportunities for personalized learning, enhanced evaluations, and augmenting human performance against the possible risks of increased plagiarism and cheating, disinformation and discriminatory bias, and weakened critical thinking.
In this post, we review current responses to generative AI across K-12 public school districts and explore what remains to be done. Right now, public schools have varied between banning or integrating generative AI and reviews are ongoing without any definitive guidelines. OpenAI confirms that AI writing detectors don’t work. Last week, OpenAI published tips for educators in a promotional blog post that shows how some teachers are using ChatGPT as an educational aid, along with suggested prompts to get started. In a related FAQ, they also officially admit what we already know: AI writing detectors don't work, despite frequently being used to punish students with false positives. In a section of the FAQ titled "Do AI detectors work? ", OpenAI writes, "In short, no.
While some (including OpenAI) have released tools that purport to detect AI-generated content, none of these have proven to reliably distinguish between AI-generated and human-generated content. " In July, we covered in depth why AI writing detectors such as GPTZero don't work, with experts calling them "mostly snake oil. " These detectors often yield false positives due to relying on unproven detection metrics. OpenAI's new FAQ also addresses another big misconception, which is that ChatGPT itself can know whether text is AI-written or not. We Used A.I. to Write Essays for Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Here’s How It Went. A.I. chatbots can do a passable job of generating short essays. Whether their use on college applications is ethical is the subject of fierce debate.
By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer reports on the ways that tech giants and their tools are reshaping education. As high school seniors begin working on their college applications, many are turning to A.I. chatbots like ChatGPT and Bard for assistance. Some students say they’re using the tools to suggest personal essay topics or help structure their writing. Others are prompting the A.I. tools to generate rough drafts for their application essays or edit their pieces. Whether college admissions offices are prepared for this new era of A.I. By the time ChatGPT reached peak media sensation early this year, applications at many selective universities and colleges had already closed. So I used several free tools to generate short essays for some Ivy League applications. AI and College Essays: Wrong Question, Wrong Answer | Yale Podcast Network. 10 AI discussions schools should have now.
8. What’s our stance on AI detectors and their place in teaching? As AI assistants like ChatGPT began to spread, the cry from teachers was clear: “Is there a detector I can use to know if my students used AI to do their work?” The answer is a clear “yes but.” Yes, lots of those tools are readily available online these days – and you can use many of them for free. Here’s the “but.” Most of them are wildly inaccurate. Concern #1: Consider that a student writes an essay himself and turns it in – and an AI detector tells you a majority of it was generated by AI. Concern #2: Accusing a student of “cheating with AI” can be very unclear, messy, gray area. The most beneficial use of AI detectors I’ve seen so far is to start a conversation. Can I Use AI? (green, yellow, red chart) Ryan Watkins. Clarifying Ethical Boundaries for Use of AI. EDUCAUSE QuickPoll Results: Did ChatGPT Write This Report? | EDUCAUSE Review.
Generative AI is arriving in higher education, but stakeholders are uncertain about its potential opportunities and challenges. One thing is clear: there is work to be done, and there's no time to waste. EDUCAUSE is helping institutional leaders, technology professionals, and other staff address their pressing challenges by sharing existing data and gathering new data from the higher education community.
This report is based on an EDUCAUSE QuickPoll. QuickPolls enable us to rapidly gather, analyze, and share input from our community about specific emerging topics.Footnote1 The Challenge Few technologies have garnered attention in the teaching and learning landscape as quickly and as loudly as generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools—tools that use AI to create content such as text, images, and sounds. Specifically, the text-generating tool ChatGPT has been making headlines, despite GPT models having been around for a few years.
The challenge? The Bottom Line Students Faculty and Staff. My students are using AI to cheat. Here’s why it’s a teachable moment | Siva Vaidhyanathan. In my spring lecture course of 120 students, my teaching assistants caught four examples of students using artificial-intelligence-driven language programs like ChatGPT to complete short essays. In each case, the students confessed to using such systems and agreed to rewrite the assignments themselves. With all the panic about how students might use these systems to get around the burden of actually learning, we often forget that as of 2023, the systems don’t work well at all. It was easy to spot these fraudulent essays. They contained spectacular errors. They used text that did not respond to the prompt we had issued to students. Our policy, given that this was the first wave of such cheating we encountered (and with full consideration that all students at the University of Virginia pledge to follow an “honour code” when they enrol), was to start a conversation with each student.
We asked them to consider whether the results reflected well on their goal of becoming educated citizens. Artificial Intelligence - Principles and Beliefs - Peninsula School District 401. The promise of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Peninsula School District is substantial, not in substituting human instructors but by augmenting and streamlining their endeavors. Our perspective on AI in education is comparable to using a GPS: it serves as a supportive guide while still leaving ultimate control with the user, whether the educator or the student. Our unwavering commitment to Universal Design for Learning (UDL) shapes our belief that our use of AI should align with UDL's three core principles: diversified ways of representation, action/expression, and engagement.
AI can facilitate presenting information in diverse formats, aligning with individual learners' needs. Similarly, AI can offer students various means of showcasing their knowledge and participating in learning activities. Additionally, AI can provide numerous ways to keep learners engaged, ensuring a dynamic learning environment receptive to their interests and motivations. Example Classroom Policy: Resources: Exploring the ethical use of generative AI in the classroom | by Center for Mind and Culture | Jun, 2023 | Medium.
Generative AI has been at the forefront of discussions about the future of almost every field recently. It has the potential to drastically transform how we work and how we think. In many ways, the transformation has already begun. Tools like ChatGPT, Bing, and Bard have gained traction quickly and are developing so rapidly that industry experts and policymakers are unable to keep up. CMAC co-founder and Executive Director Dr. Dr. The most helpful thing for me as the professor has been to listen to the students and they’ve said very clearly ‘We need help to understand how to use generative AI. It quickly became clear that a full ban was unreasonable, and it would leave students unprepared for a career after college. Within weeks, the policy was adopted by the Faculty of Computing and Data Sciences.
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