Book Club Podcast? Before we even got to the News and Research, this week we discussed the AI-related books we're currently reading: Dan's reading: Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson (TED Talk) Why Data Science Projects Fail, by Douglas Gray and Evan Shellshear (An interview with Evan) Ray's reading The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, by Kate Crawford (Wikipedia page) News ...
Book Club Podcast?
Before we even got to the News and Research, this week we discussed the AI-related books we're currently reading:
Dan's reading:
- Where Good Ideas Come From, by Steven Johnson (TED Talk)
- Why Data Science Projects Fail, by Douglas Gray and Evan Shellshear (An interview with Evan)
Ray's reading
- The Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence, by Kate Crawford (Wikipedia page)
News Links
Links to the reports and news we discuss in the episode:
OpenAI's new Education newsletter
https://openaiforeducation.substack.com/
Ethan Mollick's new "AI in Education: Leveraging ChatGPT for Teaching" course on Coursera
https://www.coursera.org/learn/wharton-ai-in-education-leveraging-chatgpt-for-teaching
World Economic Forum "Future of Jobs report"
https://www.weforum.org/publications/the-future-of-jobs-report-2025/infographics-94b6214b36/
Student expelled and deported because they were accused of using ChatGPT by their professor. So they're suing their professor
https://www.fox9.com/video/1574324
Digital Education Council Global AI Faculty Survey 2025
https://www.digitaleducationcouncil.com/post/digital-education-council-global-ai-faculty-survey
We'll discuss this report with one of the authors in next week's episode
UK government policy paper on "Generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education"
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/generative-artificial-intelligence-in-education/generative-artificial-intelligence-ai-in-education
Year13 Case Study on AI use
https://news.microsoft.com/en-au/2024/12/13/guiding-school-leavers-with-ai-support-year13s-mission-to-democratise-opportunities-for-young-people/
AI Use by industry employees - US, 2024
https://www.nber.org/papers/w32966
In the discussion of energy use by AI, Ray mentioned some stats from this research report:
"The Carbon Emissions of Writing and Illustrating Are Lower for AI than for Humans"
https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2303/2303.06219.pdf
Research Papers
And finally, links to the research papers we discussed this week
ChatGPT and Its Educational Impact: Insights from a Software Development Competition
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03779
How to Align Large Language Models for Teaching English? Designing and Developing LLM based-Chatbot for Teaching English Conversation in EFL, Findings and Limitations
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.04987
AI Meets the Classroom: When Does ChatGPT Harm Learning?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09047
Are Large Language Models Good Essay Graders?
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.13120
An Education Researcher's Guide to ChatGPT
https://osf.io/spbz3
A Step Towards Adaptive Online Learning: Exploring the Role of GPT as Virtual Teaching Assistants in Online Education
https://osf.io/preprints/edarxiv/rw45b
The AI Assessment Scale (AIAS) in action: A pilot implementation of GenAI-supported assessment
https://ajet.org.au/index.php/AJET/article/view/9434
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