AI in the classroom

A new survey on teacher workload and stress also offers some interesting data on teachers’ increasing use of artificial intelligence in the classroom.

Open your eyes

The influx of AI sludge into digital media means young people will have to be taught how to differentiate between simulacra and reality.

Health education

If Australia is serious about achieving health equity, improving access to quality education must be part of the strategy.

Those who can’t teach, teach with AI

Personalised AI tutors have been hyped as the future of education, slashing costs for schools and universities while giving students the feedback they need. Their only drawback is their tendency to hallucinate in convincing but unpredictable ways and fill students’ heads with nonsense.

Automating education?

EdTech firms such as Prifina, Khanmigo and Cogniti are developing AI teaching clones trained on course materials which can interact with students around the clock, but will automating education make us better people?

Automating education

Tech entrepreneurs want to use AI to ‘revolutionise’ education, but high tech replacements for human teachers have a long history of failure to overcome.

Learning by being

When we learn, we are knowing and doing and being – educators work with all three. While that may seem like common sense, the value of bringing them together cohesively is not understood as well as it should be.

Teacher’s pet

ChatGPT may match or even exceed the average grade of university students when answering assessment questions across a range of subjects including computer science, political studies, engineering, and psychology.

Playing catch up

Fewer than 1 in 5 Australian children who fall behind their peers in Year 3 catch up and stay caught up over the course of their school education.

Surfing lessons

Many adults would remember getting their pen licence in primary school, now researchers from Edith Cowan University and the Security Research Institute are developing a digital cyber security licence for Australian schools. The licence would be like a swimming certificate, with each student moving up in levels based on their evidence of achievement.

Students, academics and AI

While some students are ready to embrace generative AI in their university learning, many are entirely reluctant to engage with the technology.

ChatGPT PhD

The widespread availability of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence technologies pose a profound challenge to many aspects of human life, not least the ability of academics to maintain the honesty and integrity of PhD research.