Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and Research
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Everybody or Nobody is using AI - News and ResearchSeries 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)