#generative ai in education

[generativeaiineducation]

Generative AI in Education: Transforming Learning with Real-World Applications

The integration of generative AI in education is revolutionizing the way students learn and educators teach. From personalized learning experiences to automated content generation, generative AI is making education more engaging, efficient, and accessible. With real-world cases, let’s explore how this technology is shaping the future of learning and why institutions worldwide are rapidly adopting it. Read more

[prokopetz]

A couple of years ago we were all terribly concerned about the fact that a lot of American high schools are assigning such crushing homework loads that some kids literally don't have enough time to eat or sleep (and all this in spite of the fact that there's no good evidence that assigning homework actually improves academic outcomes at the pre-university level), but now we're hearing stories about those same schools struggling to stop kids from using ChatGPT to write their essays and suddenly It's The Children Who Are Wrong. Like, do you think maybe there's a certain level of cause and effect in play here?

[dhanasrivista]

Generative AI in Education: Enhancing Learning Through Personalized Content

In recent years, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in various sectors has transformed how tasks are performed, information is processed, and solutions are delivered. One of the most exciting developments in this realm is the application of Generative AI in education. Generative AI, which involves using algorithms to produce new content such as text, images, and videos, has the potential to revolutionize the educational landscape by providing personalized and adaptive learning experiences for students.

Generative AI Certification and Courses

As the impact of generative AI in education continues to grow, so does the need for professionals to be skilled in leveraging this technology. Individuals interested in exploring the potential of generative AI can pursue Generative AI Certification or enroll in a Generative AI Course. These programs typically cover the fundamentals of AI, machine learning, and deep learning, along with specialized training on generative models such as GANs, autoencoders, and large language models.

A comprehensive Generative AI course might include topics like:

Introduction to AI and Machine Learning: Understanding the basics of AI, data science, and machine learning algorithms.

Generative Models: Detailed exploration of models like GANs, Variational Autoencoders (VAEs), and transformers.

AI Ethics and Policy: Discussion on the ethical considerations of using AI in education and the potential impact on students’ learning experiences.

Practical Applications in Education: Implementing generative AI for creating learning paths, adaptive testing, and personalized feedback systems.

The Role of Generative AI in Education

Generative AI leverages advanced models, such as Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) and language models like GPT (Generative Pretrained Transformer), to create customized educational content. These models can analyze large datasets, identify patterns in learning, and produce content tailored to meet the unique needs of each student. The result is an educational environment where learning is more engaging, inclusive, and effective.

One of the core benefits of generative AI in education is its ability to create personalized learning experiences. Traditional classroom settings often struggle to cater to the varying abilities and learning paces of different students. Generative AI can help bridge this gap by developing resources that are customized based on individual student performance. For example, if a student is struggling with a particular topic in mathematics, the AI can generate supplementary exercises and explanations specifically targeting their area of difficulty. Similarly, for students who excel, generative AI can create more challenging material to keep them engaged and motivated.

Enhancing Learning with Personalized Content

Generative AI’s capacity to produce personalized content is reshaping how educational material is designed and delivered. Educators can utilize AI-generated content in various ways, including:

Customized Learning Paths: Generative AI can analyze a student’s past performance, preferences, and learning style to create a unique learning path. This allows each student to progress through the curriculum at their own pace, ensuring that they fully comprehend the material before moving on to the next concept.

Intelligent Tutoring Systems: AI-driven tutoring systems can simulate the experience of a human tutor by providing real-time feedback, answering questions, and offering additional explanations. These systems adapt to the student’s progress and change the difficulty of the content based on the student’s current level of understanding.

Content Creation and Curation: Generative AI can produce diverse educational content, such as quizzes, interactive lessons, and multimedia presentations. This content can be tailored to fit the curriculum or the learning objectives set by educators, making it easier to integrate into existing teaching methodologies.

Language and Literacy Support: Generative AI tools can assist students who are learning new languages or struggling with literacy. For instance, they can generate reading comprehension exercises or provide context-specific vocabulary lists that match the student’s proficiency level.

Simulation and Scenario-based Learning: In subjects like science, history, or vocational training, generative AI can create realistic simulations and scenarios. Students can interact with these scenarios to gain practical experience, enhancing their understanding of complex concepts through immersive learning experiences.

Generative AI certifications offer a structured learning path, enabling learners to understand the theory and applications of AI in various fields, including education. These certifications are valuable for educators looking to integrate AI into their teaching practices, as well as for professionals seeking to develop educational AI solutions.

Future of Generative AI in Education

The future of generative AI in education looks promising. As technology advances, we can expect even more sophisticated AI systems capable of understanding and responding to the nuances of human learning. These systems will likely be able to offer real-time insights to educators, predict student performance, and create even more personalized educational content.

However, integrating AI into education also presents challenges, such as ensuring data privacy, addressing biases in AI models, and maintaining a balance between human and machine interactions in the learning process. Educational institutions must collaborate with AI experts and policymakers to establish best practices and ethical guidelines for the use of generative AI in classrooms.

In conclusion, generative AI has the potential to transform education by making learning more personalized, accessible, and engaging. As more educators and institutions embrace this technology, pursuing Generative AI Certifications and enrolling in Generative AI Courses can equip individuals with the skills and knowledge needed to be at the forefront of this educational revolution. The key to success will be leveraging AI responsibly to enhance the learning experience while keeping the student’s needs at the center of every innovation.

[swanbellqa]

Generative AI in Various Industries

Generative AI is transforming various industries by automating complex tasks, enhancing creativity, and optimizing processes. In healthcare, it personalizes treatments and improves diagnostics. In finance, it detects fraud and predicts market trends. In manufacturing, it streamlines production and maintenance. In entertainment, it creates content and enhances user experiences. From retail to automotive, generative AI is driving innovation and efficiency, making it a pivotal technology for the future.

[tanoraqui]

Warm Take: The proliferation of AI-based plagiarism in higher education is based partly in the years-in-the-making general social/economic narrative that a college degree is an essential line on your résumé, required for getting any halfway decent job. The more a degree became a universally requisite prize, the more it became just a prize—and not even as impressive a prize, because everyone has one, don’t they? So it’s little more than a participation ribbon, received by going through the motions. That school, any level of school, is meant to be for the purpose of learning; that more advanced schooling is meant to result in, & should be taken by people who want, advanced learning, of new facts and moreover of how to think about new facts—this is being culturally forgotten. All that matters is the end-goal of the line on the résumé—so why not just let the computer generate something?

[aiweirdness]

Shaped like information

hey look it's a guide to basic shapes!

The fact that even a kindergartener can call out this DALL-E3 generated image as nonsense doesn't mean that it's an unusually bad example of AI-generated imagery. It's just what happens when the usual AI-generated information intersects with an area where most people are experts.

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[victusinveritas]

From Rebecca Solnit:

When you outsource thinking, your brain goes on vacation. "EEG analysis presented robust evidence that LLM, Search Engine and Brain-only groups had significantly different neural connectivity patterns, reflecting divergent cognitive strategies. Brain connectivity systematically scaled down with the amount of external support: the Brain‑only group exhibited the strongest, widest‑ranging networks, Search Engine group showed intermediate engagement, and LLM assistance elicited the weakest overall coupling."

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872

But also here's a fantastic essay on the subject: "Now, in the age of the internet—when the Library of Alexandria could fit on a medium-sized USB stick and the collected wisdom of humanity is available with a click—we’re engaged in a rather large, depressingly inept social experiment of downloading endless knowledge while offloading intelligence to machines. (Look around to see how it’s going). That’s why convincing students that intelligence is a skill they must cultivate through hard work—no shortcuts—has become one of the core functions of education."

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/the-death-of-the-student-essayand

[thearchivistsletterbox]

i need to rant for a second ok. spoiler alert its about ai.

so i'm taking an ancient history course right? its pretty cool and i quite enjoy it, the instructor is clearly passionate about the topic too. there's just a tiiiiiiiiiiny itty bitty (translation: kinda huge) problem.

we're looking at persian warfare atm, which is cool because i know jackshit about ancient persia, as oppose to the typical ancient grecoroman study topics which i know heaps about. the instructor threw on a little video while they sorted out our papers to hand back our marks from the latest assessment. i, of course, was interested to see how the ancient persian army functioned.

however.

the WHOLE video was completely ai. like airbrushed to hell, horrible anatomy, nonsense logistics, clunky as all hell writing, robot voice. people had full bronze helmets that covered their whole heads, horses limbs doubled as the limbs of their riders, every. single. person looked exactly the same (which i can safely assume is genai bias to eurocentric skin tones/characters). real 2020 early genai quality stuff. i'll bet money not a single human was involved in that video.

and the instructor just. let it happen. the video was in the course, like it was attached to the page we use to access study materials for the class.

and i'll be so fr right now, this is not the first time this has happened in this class. far from it. a good 50-70% of the videos we watch are either partially or entirely ai generated. for a little "experiment" when someone in the class argued with me over ai's use in history, i asked chatgpt a history question. i asked it to identify the ancient writer of a quote and where the quote could be found.

“For a man can win nothing better than a good wife, and nothing more painful than a bad one.”

(the answer, by the way, is hesiod's works & days.)

and the answer i was given was socrates. and no source was given. i corrected it and now, if you ask about this quote, it'll give you the correct answer. but my god. you can go on theoi.com or find a pdf of works & days literally all over the internet and find the source of that quote. literally just go on google. that'll get you the right answer, with a reliable source to back it up. (fun fact: the ai overview could not identify the quote either)

so what point am i even making here? yeah, genai is awful and we're all kinda fucked. i'm an original fiction writer, i love reading fanfics, indie games and shows own my heart, i'm starting a game design and animation course next week, i've been studying music for 5 years now, so i'm up-to-date and constantly aware of ai's affect on film and tv, music, animation, games, etc. so i'm well aware of the threat it holds over the creative industry.

what gets me here is that this is literal history. this is the backbone of what our society is made up of today. you know the quote. they who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. and you just can't fucking trust any form of generative ai to give you reliable answers about history. it can't identify writers. it can't understand how historical events have affected other parts of history. it mistranslates things. it misquotes. it can't balance sources, it just gives one answer and that's it. it's all just total bullshit.

history is so fucking important to society today. censoring, misleading, and relying on blatantly incorrect and unreliable evidence provided by generative ai could very well fuck over many, many generations to come.

beyond people reading percy jackson and wanting to know more about ancient greek mythology, beyond the most passionate historians collecting and explaining seldom-reported sources and events, beyond tired teachers trying to get their students psyched about learning about the world wars, we do this shit for a reason.

it's not just the love of the game. by knowing history, we know ourselves. we know the world. we know how to govern, protect, understand ourselves.

how would you feel if your family tree was commodified, mass produced? if you looked up where you came from and all that came back was static? there are faces there, but they are not human. they are not your family. they are not your history. i think of my family's old scottish heritage. i know avise la fin thanks to history.

generative ai cannot teach us. it does and will warp the facts in on itself, and doesn't and never will be able to draw genuine meaning from the history it's parroting.

keep ai out of classrooms and lecture halls. it does not belong in any educational context, from the grandest ivy league to the smallest rural classroom.

[alwayshinny]

Hinny 💍 - The One With No Voldy and Where Everyone Lives

AU, where Harry happens to hear a conversation between his grandfather, Fleamont Potter, and his father, James. Fleamont, who has been looking weaker by the day, tells his son he knows his and Euphemia's time is coming to an end, and his only regret is not being able to witness Harry grow up and get married. This bothers Harry, and while on a playdate at the Burrow, he confides in Ginny, who responds as if it were the most obvious solution: "Then let's get married."

They persuade their families to arrange a gathering, and they con the Weasley brothers into decorating the backyard. Ron stands by Harry's side as his best man, while Luna is Ginny's bridesmaid. All it took was one look from Harry and Ginny to convince Sirius to turn into Padfoot to be their ring bearer/flower girl; his outfit consisted of a bowtie and a tutu (James, Remus, Gideon, and Fabian nearly fell off their chairs laughing so hard).

They made each other's wedding rings. Harry's ring was made from the metal from his grandma's old Auror badge (which Euphemia gave to her willingly) and the very first snitch he caught for the first time and gifted to her. Ginny convinced Fabian and Gideon to transform into a ring. Ginny's ring was made of her favorite green bubble gum (that was suspiciously similar to Harry's eye color) and twigs of their broomsticks as the band, which Harry convinced his dad and Sirius to smooth out and place an unbreakable charm on with an auto-replenishing charm on the bubble gum.

They both dressed themselves for the occasion, and Harry asked his mom and godmother Marlene to help him pick flowers for Ginny's bouquet. He smelled each one and was very picky persistent it had to smell like Ginny's hair. It took Harry HOURS until he was finally satisfied with the arrangement. Molly volunteered to make their wedding cake, and a few days before the wedding, Ginny told her dad in a very grown-up tone to wear a bowtie because he was walking her down the aisle on Sunday. Hinny asked Hagrid to marry them, and when it was time to kiss the bride, Harry was just about to protest/lecture Hagrid about how he should have asked Ginny for her consent instead of giving him permission "to kiss the bride" (the boy was Lily Potter's son and a true feminist at heart), when Ginny pulled Harry down and gave Harry a big kiss on the lips. The kid was frozen for a solid minute and then couldn't stop smiling as he followed his 'wife' around all day.

They made Fleamont and Euphemia's wishes come true.

Then, 16 years later, they got married again.

[reality-detective]

This is “Plastic”, a short video made with Veo3, Google’s latest AI video model that turns text prompts into videos with built-in audio. 🤔

[thisisallai]

The Sistine Chapel if it was painted by Vincent Van Gogh

[94shasha]

८०.रुजुला लक्ष्मी

[sempermoi]

Rant about generative AI in education and in general under the cut because I'm worried and frustrated and I needed to write it out in a small essay:

So, context: I am a teacher in Belgium, Flanders. I am now teaching English (as a second language), but have also taught history and Dutch (as a native language). All in secondary education, ages 12-16.

More and more I see educational experts endorse ai being used in education and of course the most used tools are the free, generative ones. Today, one of the colleagues responsible for the IT of my school went to an educational lecture where they once again vouched for the use of ai.

Now their keyword is that it should always be used in a responsible manner, but the issue is... can it be?

1. Environmentally speaking, ai has been a nightmare. Not only does it have an alarming impact on emission levels, but also on the toxic waste that's left behind. Not to mention the scarcity of GPUs caused by the surge of ai in the past few years. Even sources that would vouch for ai have raised concerns about the impact it has on our collective health. sources: here, here and here

2. Then there's the issue with what the tools are trained on and this in multiple ways:

Many of the free tools that the public uses is trained on content available across the internet. However, it is at this point common knowledge (I'd hope) that most creators of the original content (writers, artists, other creative content creators, researchers, etc.) were never asked for permission and so it has all been stolen. Many social media platforms will often allow ai training on them without explicitly telling the user-base or will push it as the default setting and make it difficult for their user-base to opt out. Deviantart, for example, lost much of its reputation when it implemented such a policy. It had to backtrack in 2022 afterwards because of the overwhelming backlash. The problem is then that since the content has been ripped from their context and no longer made by a human, many governments therefore can no longer see it as copyrighted. Which, yes, luckily also means that ai users are legally often not allowed to pass off ai as 'their own creation'. Sources: here, here

Then there's the working of generative ai in general. As said before, it simply rips words or image parts from their original, nuanced context and then mesh it together without the user being able to accurately trace back where the info is coming from. A tool like ChatGPT is not a search engine, yet many people use it that way without realising it is not the same thing at all. More on the working of generative ai in detail. Because of how it works, it means there is always a chance for things to be biased and/or inaccurate. If a tool has been trained on social media sources (which ChatGPT for example is) then its responses can easily be skewed to the demographic it's been observing. Bias is an issue is most sources when doing research, but if you have the original source you also have the context of the source. Ai makes it that the original context is no longer clear to the user and so bias can be overlooked and go unnoticed much easier. Source: here

3. Something my colleague mentioned they said in the lecture is that ai tools can be used to help the learning of the students.

Let me start off by saying that I can understand why there is an appeal to ai when you do not know much about the issues I have already mentioned. I am very aware it is probably too late to fully stop the wave of ai tools being published.

There are certain uses to types of ai that can indeed help with accessibility. Such as text-to-voice or the other way around for people with disabilities (let's hope the voice was ethically begotten).

But many of the other uses mentioned in the lecture I have concerns with. They are to do with recognising learning, studying and wellbeing patterns of students. Not only do I not think it is really possible to data-fy the complexity of each and every single student you would have as they are still actively developing as a young person, this also poses privacy risks in case the data is ever compromised. Not to mention that ai is often still faulty and, as it is not a person, will often still make mistakes when faced with how unpredictable a human brain can be. We do not all follow predictable patterns.

The lecture stated that ai tools could help with neurodivergency 'issues'. Obviously I do not speak for others and this next part is purely personal opinion, but I do think it important to nuance this: as someone with auDHD, no ai-tool has been able to help me with my executive dysfunction in the long-term. At first, there is the novelty of the app or tool and I am very motivated. They are often in the form of over-elaborate to-do lists with scheduled alarms. And then the issue arises: the ai tries to train itself on my presented routine... except I don't have one. There is no routine to train itself on, because that is my very problem I am struggling with. Very quickly it always becomes clear that the ai doesn't understand this the way a human mind would. A professionally trained in psychology/therapy human mind. And all I was ever left with was the feeling of even more frustration.

In my opinion, what would help way more than any ai tool would be the funding of mental health care and making it that going to a therapist or psychiatrist or coach is covered by health care the way I only have to pay 5 euros to my doctor while my health care provider pays the rest. (In Belgium) This would make mental health care much more accessible and would have a greater impact than faulty ai tools.

4. It was also said that ai could help students with creative assignments and preparing for spoken interactions both in their native language as well as in the learning of a new one.

I wholeheartedly disagree. Creativity in its essence is about the person creating something from their own mind and putting the effort in to translate those ideas into their medium of choice. Stick figures on lined course paper are more creative than letting a tool like Midjourney generate an image based on stolen content. How are we teaching students to be creative when we allow them to not put a thought in what they want to say and let an ai do it for them?

And since many of these tools are also faulty and biased in their content, how could they accurately replace conversations with real people? Ai cannot fully understand the complexities of language and all the nuances of the contexts around it. Body language, word choice, tone, volume, regional differences, etc.

And as a language teacher, I can truly say there is nothing more frustrating than wanting to assess the writing level of my students, giving them a writing assignment where they need to express their opinion and write it in two tiny paragraphs... and getting an ai response back. Before anyone comes to me saying that my students may simply be very good at English. Indeed, but my current students are not. They are precious, but their English skills are very flawed. It is very easy to see when they wrote it or ChatGPT. It is not only frustrating to not being able to trust part of your students' honesty and knowing they learned nothing from the assignment cause you can't give any feedback; it is almost offensive that they think I wouldn't notice it.

5. Apparently, it was mentioned in the lecture that in schools where ai is banned currently, students are fearful that their jobs would be taken away by ai and that in schools where ai was allowed that students had much more positive interactions with technology.

First off, I was not able to see the source and data that this statement was based on. However, I personally cannot shake the feeling there's a data bias in there. Of course students will feel more positively towards ai if they're not told about all the concerns around it.

Secondly, the fact that in the lecture it was (reportedly) framed that being scared your job would disappear because of ai, was untrue is... infuriating. Because it already is becoming a reality. Let's not forget what partially caused the SAG-AFTRA strike in 2023. Corporations see an easy (read: cheap) way to get marketable content by using ai at the cost of the creative professionals. Unregulated ai use by businesses causing the loss of jobs for real-life humans, is very much a threat. Dismissing this is basically lying to young students.

6. My conclusion:

I am frustrated. It's clamoured that we, as teachers, should educate more about ai and it's responsible use. However, at the same time the many concerns and issues around most of the accessible ai tools are swept under the rug and not actively talked about.

I find the constant surging rise of generative ai everywhere very concerning and I can only hope that more people will start seeing it too.

Thank you for reading.

[frameacloud]

What can you do if your professors require you to use generative AI for your assignments?

Universities expel students for plagiarism, so it's bizarre that some professors allow, encourage, or even require students to use chatGPT or other genAI in their assignments. AI generation has no place in a school beyond showing students how to recognize it and why they should not use it. Requiring students to use genAI to write essays for them is cheating students out of their money by failing to teach them the thinking, brainstorming, editing, and writing skills that they pay to learn. Keep in mind that I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. For legal advice, you must consult with your own lawyer.

First, immediately ask your university's authority, the Dean, whether they approve of how those professors are using AI generation in classes. Just politely ask, don't confront or threaten, but explain why you think this is wrong.

If the Dean thinks this situation is fine, then this university isn't worth your time or money. If it's not teaching you how to do things or think for yourself, then it's not education, it's a pointless waste.

Become a whistleblower only if you're up for a fight to make the school better for others. Whistleblowing has many risks, including that it may make this or other universities dislike working with you personally.

Don't do it alone! Organize with other students who agree with you so that you can speak up about this together. Collect signatures. Show that you're not the odd one out for caring. People are more likely to listen if they see that a wide range of students from different backgrounds share the view that this is no good.

Carefully save all emails, handouts, or other written documents from your professors where they said how they required you to use AI generation. Save evidence.

Get a lawyer. Some lawyers are favorable to genAI, but others recognize that the abuse of AI-generated texts is a nuisance to many professions, and to their own in particular.

Together, complain to the Dean. Let your Dean know that you all find it unacceptable that the university approves of using AI generation in classes as described, and if it continues, then you will take this to a higher level.

Your next step may be to complain to whatever organizations the university is overseen by or holds membership in. These may decide that the university deserves to lose its reputation or even its accreditation.

Or your next step may be to complain to the press. As professional writers whose livelihoods are threatened by ChatGPT, journalists will share your outrage at your university.

These professors are such an insult to pedagogy that they're inviting a dark age of ignorance for the next generation. It's unfortunate that students today find themselves in a necessary fight against this. Godspeed.

[aiweirdness]

learn the berries with the help of dall-e3!

the berries

the berries in swedish

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