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Stay with us to learn more about the most efficient ChatGPT detectors, go through the new AI test for educators, find out how to introduce more AI tools in your daily teaching practices, and enjoy our prompt of the week.

WEEKLY INSIGHTS

No fear, mate. It’s AI knocking on your classroom door

A regulate-or-die global report by UNESCO caused by a rapid explosion of AI nudged many countries to govern the use of AI in education. Many educational institutions reacted to this alarm and stood up against ChatGPT and similar services. Of course, not all.

• Five Danish high schools have recently announced a 2-year project to teach students how to use AI tools. Go here if you want to know more about their experience.

• After a short shock and rejection, Australian educational authorities allowed generative AI in schools. The education system there will become ChatGPT-friendly in 2024. Click here to read more about this change.

Ready-Steady!

Do you feel like introducing AI into your teaching portfolio? If it is challenging to say a straightforward ‘yes,’ the following issue is for you. The professional association for K-12 EdTech leaders, CoSN, introduced a Readiness Checklist to help districts responsibly integrate generative AI daily in their schools.

Click here to complete the questionnaire.

One step closer to the “golden age”

What would Leonardo da Vinci say about AI? It’s hard to believe he would fear. Mark Lombardi, the president of Maryville University, believes AI gives humanity a great chance.

Read more here.

СASE STUDIES

A ChatGPT life hack to save you an hour

Looking for a proper formula in Google Sheets to compare or calculate your data? Be like Dale Plotzki. In his X, he shared an excellent example of a time-saving idea for searching formulas in Excel. He didn’t try long and decided to ask ChatGPT. The reply saved him plenty of time.

Do various AI tools think differently?

Each AI tool creates a unique output, even if the prompt is accurately the same. So much like human artists! This is what a digital innovator from Bloom KKCA Academy, Mr. Erdoğan, demonstrated on his X page. Click on the link to see four avatars of Perry the Parrot he generated using several AI tools. Note that all the videos were generated using the same input.

Let’s see what we get using the same prompt:

👩‍💻 “A cinematic photograph of a cyberpunk robot parrot, with red glowing eyes”

TOP TOOLS

Cheaters out! Best AI detectors for teachers

Dozens of services work on detecting generative AI writing. Still, many of them often fail. Meet a list of highly reliable cheating detectors.

• Crossplag AI Content Detector detects AI and human-written content in English. It checks various LLMs, such as ChatGPT, GPT4, GPT3, Bard, Claude, and more. Use it for free.

• Copyleaks AI Content Detector provides a free plagiarism scan and a fully interactive Similarity Report of 5 pages. The upgraded version starts at $10.99 monthly.

• ZeroGPT highlights each AI-written sentence. A free version is available for up to 15,000 characters.

• UNDETECTABLE.AI checks if the content is AI-generated and “humanizes” it to upgrade the input. It detects GPTZero, OpenAI, Writer, Crossplag, Copyleaks, and more. This tool costs $9.99 monthly.

• Turnitin detects whether a student’s paper is AI-generated or human-written. To start with Turnitin, you must contact a sales department.

AI NEWS

Nice to meet you, Mrs Abigail!

Why did the media write about a new staff member in one of the English schools? For a simple reason: it is not a human. ‘Abigail Bailey’ is an AI robot created for the West Sussex private boarding school to assist the school's human headmaster. This tool processes on a technology that is similar to ChatGPT. Fortunately, ‘Abigail’ is not alone. Jamie Rainer is the other AI assistant to start working in the prep school.

Go here for more details.

An hour of AI on the Arabian Peninsula

Over 1,300 schools in Saudi Arabia have joined the ‘Artificial Intelligence Hour’ initiative. It’s about introducing AI technology into the learning curriculum as early and thoroughly as possible to enhance the learning outcome. AI Inject reported that according to this program, students will learn many AI topics, including data analytics, machine learning, and programming. Read more here.

AI ahead of viruses

What if we could predict COVID-19 and create vaccines before thousands of first deaths? Perhaps AI could have helped. Harvard Medical School and the University of Oxford are working with a new AI tool that predicts mutations of viruses. It’s called EVEscape. Now, researchers are trying to find a way to figure out how to design vaccines and effective therapies against viruses that might be a threat in the future. For more details, go here.

An AI avatar that seems 100% real performed in a TV ad

What’s so impressive about a recent advertisement on Japanese TV? A woman performing in it. A highly realistic AI-generated image of a young lady surprised the audience because it resembled a natural person. The company reported their designer had just improved the video background. This was the first AI-generated avatar to participate in a TV ad.

Learn more here. Watch the video here.

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

Meet the EduSummary prompt choice of the week. In her X, Martha Bongiorno, a School Librarian from Atlanta, GA, shared five ChatGPT prompts for librarians. Keep her lesson planning prompt.

The input:

Generate a list of discussion questions related to digital literacy in [specific library section] for [grade level] following the [insert course or curriculum] in [insert your state]

The result:

What does “digital literacy” mean, and why is it important today? How can we tell if a website or online source is reliable and trustworthy for research? What is the significance of the First Amendment in the context of digital literacy and freedom of expression? (For more results, go to ChatGPT)

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