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This is your weekly EduSummary AI guide. We are ready to share teacher’s hacks for introducing AI into the most sensible subjects, such as art; tell you an impressive story of a teenage AI developer who has created a prototype of a complex personal AI assistant for students; show you the pros of combining two types of AI for teaching, share 5 practical tools for your classroom, and more.

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WEEKLY INSIGHTS

Art school revives after AI invasion

At the beginning of the school year, most of The Rhode Island School of Design students felt hostile towards AI and didn’t want to see it in the curriculum. Still, there is a way out. A chair of the AI Task Force decided to incorporate AI as an instrument, not a replacement, in the learning process. Rick Dakan believes AI will soon be as natural in teaching art as it once happened with Photoshop. Read more about AI in art studies here.

Learning perspectives detected by LLM. A new study

AI is so powerful that it may even help applicants get their place in college! A recent study by CU Boulder and the University of Pennsylvania proved that under definite circumstances, AI tools are effective in helping admissions officers identify some promising essays amid a mountain of applications. Thus, more talented students will be noticed and receive the chance to get their dream education. The research touched upon the 150-word essays of the college applicants. Click here to go in more detail.

Generative and extractive: a perfect combo to benefit from AI at school

Generative AI, like ChatGPT and many other chatbots, is well-known for writing new pieces of text. It helps generate ideas, but it can also be too creative to end up perverting the facts. That is why the other type of AI, an extractive one, is now becoming an essential part of AI in education. It works well for analyzing enormous amounts of data to provide meaningful quotations and summaries. Jason Dougal from the National Center on Education and the Economy, U.S., believes that schools will significantly benefit from extractive AI because it uses only reliable sources. Go here to know more about the idea.

CASE STUDIES

How to be an AI supervisor

Even though, at first, Sherwood Christian Academy in Georgia, USA, prohibited the use of AI in programming, a computer science teacher, Vicki Davis, found a way to incorporate AI in the learning process. Her students must address ChatGPT to collect technical recommendations based on the given data and evaluate whether AI tips are reliable. In this course, her students research current laptop models to find the best ones suitable for the topic of their future college studies. Find out more here.

Show, not tell!

We love it when teachers share their users’ experience of preparing lessons with AI. Enjoy a video guide by Krista Truelove. Her review shows how to create an informative and well-assembled presentation using BeautifulAI. Watch here.

TOP TOOLS

Keep 5 AI instruments we recommend this week to boost workflow and efficiency of lessons.

• Winston AI focuses on detecting ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard, and other LLMs. It currently supports English, French, Spanish, and German. It’s free for up to 2,000 words; a monthly subscription plan starts from $12 if paid annually.

• ScholarAI is a ChatGPT plugin using which you can turn links into abstracts, quotes, papers, etc. Click here to watch ScholarAI in use.

• Cognii is an AI assistant that uses conversational technology and provides students with open-response assessment and personalized real-time feedback. Contact sales to learn about pricing.

• Queirum is an excellent idea for STEM teachers. It provides an AI tutor that instantly follows student performance and supports teachers with tips about the weak spots in learning math. Try it for free.

• EdChat is a powerful tool your students can use to ask for more information about a topic they learn, analyze complex ideas, and ask for suggestions. It is powered by the same technology as ChatGPT.

PROMPT OF THE WEEK

AI can definitely make the language learning process more engaging. Here is the EduSummary choice for this week. Keep a prompt by the X user, Museera.

Input:

Create a 30-minute lesson plan for teaching basic Spanish phrases.

Output:

Main Activity — Role Play and Pair Work (10 minutes): 
Provide students with small cards containing common courtesy phrases and expressions. 
Include phrases like "Por favor" (Please), "Gracias" (Thank you), and "De nada" (You're welcome).

Read the whole story in ChatGPT.

NEWS

“AI? Check back later!”

AI is a new domain not only for parents but for school leaders as well. According to the Dunnigan & Richards analysis, only a few of almost 20 superintendents, principals, and senior administrators from nearly 70 American schools already supply teachers with AI training. More details here.

If you are looking for a roadmap in education AI too, go to this “AI guidance for schools.”

Pocket AI tutor to make students’ dreams real

From summarizing cards to a personal AI tutor for every student! That’s not a dream but a plan of an ambitious 20-year-old Dubai resident, Quddus Pativada. He has already created a prototype that might soon become a personal AI assistant for every kid in the United Arab Emirates school system. Find out more about a fantastic teenage edtech story here.

UK invests £2 million in AI to support teachers

The British Oak National Academy, which works on developing high-quality AI assistance for every teacher, receives up to £2 million from the Government. By now, 30K teachers are using Oak every week. Go here to learn more about this technology.

Whiskers under AI test

Artificial intelligence is able to help people understand animals better. That is what a professor of veterinary behavioral medicine at the University of Lincoln, Daniel Mills, firmly believes. Thanks to AI's ability to classify images, researchers found that cats can demonstrate 276 facial expressions when interacting with other felines. Using AI, scientists also study the communication modes of animals. They mainly work on classifying vocalizations of pigs, parakeets, zebras, and white rhinos. Learn more amazing facts about AI in veterinary here.

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