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EdTech has been a hot button topic for some time now, and the focus on generative AI in 2023 has only amplified interest in EdTech. Proponents see a plethora of ways that AI can improve education outcomes. AI’s potential for transforming education is real, but so are the dangers—so we must move forward with care and intentionality. It is with an eye toward care and intentionality that members of W2050’s Senior Fellows committee on education and work met to discuss how AI could—and how it should—impact education in 2024 and beyond.

Study Fetch transforms your powerpoints, lectures, class notes, and study guides into flashcards, quizzes, and tests with an AI tutor right by your side.

This video explores 20 emerging technologies and their future. Watch this next video about the 10 stages of AI.

Laurence Holt

Today, we're announcing the Claude 3 model family, which sets new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. The family includes three state-of-the-art models in ascending order of capability: Claude 3 Haiku, Claude 3 Sonnet, and Claude 3 Opus.

We built Capitol AI to enhance and inspire your creative process. Capitol leverages cutting-edge AI to offer personalized suggestions, generate innovative ideas, and refine your creations to perfection.

Dyscribe is a suite of AI powered tools that support people with learning differences like dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia.

Vinod Aithal and Jasmin Silver discuss how learners' critical thinking skills can be enhanced with AI-assisted technology

At the recent AI+Education Summit, Stanford researchers, students, and industry leaders discussed both the potential of AI to transform education for the better and the risks at play.

Following our annual tussle with hundreds of studies of merit, we’ve pared them down to 10 you shouldn’t miss—from what AI can (and can’t) do to the neuroscience of brain synchrony.

Let’s take advantage of this new technology and see how we can use it for flipped learning. In this session, I'll introduce several techniques that can help students develop their autonomous learning skills so that they can work more effectively in pairs and small groups. I’ll also be sharing a range of prompts that students can submit to ChatGPT in order to turn it into an English-speaking friend, a Socratic teacher, and even a time machine that can drop them into a scene from Star Wars or a classroom at Hogwarts.

PresentationGPT is a highly advanced AI Powered Presentation Generator that can create stunning PowerPoint presentations in seconds.

Through these efforts, educators can embrace the opportunities provided by technology and create dynamic and effective learning environments for all students. 

According to the findings, a significant portion of teachers, constituting two-thirds (63%), believe that generic AI tools are too unreliable and inaccurate for effective classroom use. However, amidst the rising prevalence of generative AI tools among students, over one in ten teachers suggest that schoolwork grading needs to be reassessed due to an assumed utilisation of AI.

Laurence Holt

Explore essential AI concepts, techniques, and tools that can support personalized learning, automate daily tasks, and provide insights for education.

The explosion of generative AI has created significant challenges and sparked new opportunities for our students. So, how do we decide when students should and should not use AI? In this article and podcast, I explore seven key areas you might consider as you craft the policies and design the systems within your school.

Save time from generating questions for quizzes, exams and worksheets from any YouTube videos and text sources with AI.

Digital texts can be useful for teaching certain foundational skills, but they do not equally develop cognitive patience and slower, deeper processes in the brain that serve comprehension, retention and focus.

Recently, Google has taken a significant step by updating Bard, their AI chatbot, to be accessible to teenagers. This move is part of a broader initiative to empower young minds with the tools and knowledge to harness generative AI technologies effectively. Alongside this, Google has introduced a plethora of educational resources, including complimentary AI courses and an AI Literacy Guide, which we’re focusing on today.

Microsoft’s AI has enabled Project Gutenberg to convert their collection to free audiobooks, even with different voices for the different parts in Shakespeare’s plays

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