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Eugenia Novokshanova, Ph.D. and I have been requiring our students to submit their chat dialogue link with every AI assignment in our writing classes. We didn't used to do this. I give Mike Kentz credit for this. Mike contacted me about a study he was doing regarding students' chat dialogues. I wasn't able to participate in his study, unfortunately, but I did learn a lot from him about the importance of chat dialogues during that conversation. Here is how we are doing it in our classes: ?? Students must use ONLY ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, or You.com (Claude and our version of Copilot do not provide share links at this time.) ?? Students must sign in to the chatbot of their choice, as you must be signed in to share your dialogue with others. ?? If they haven't shared their link, or if the link isn't accessible, we don't give them credit for the assignment. They must provide a working link. The chat dialogue gives us great insight into whether the student is following directions, if they are having difficulty with prompts, and if they are cheating their way through a structured enhancement or other AI assignment. It provides a nice layer for us to authenticate what they are doing with AI. I have included the location of the sharing links for your information.

We know that GenAI has significantly disrupted K12 education, but we continue to see persistent gaps in AI literacy training for educators as seen in new data from the EdWeek Research Center. Key Findings: ? 58% of teachers still have had NO AI training ? The number of teachers that have received training as increased by 14% since spring 2024, but there has been no increase of GenAI usage ? The majority of teachers that have received training have only had one session Teachers said there top barriers to using GenAI were: ??Lack of knowledge/training ??Competing priorities by their school/district ??Lack of school policy/guidance for responsible use What This Means for Leaders: The data clearly shows that more needs to be done to train and support teachers. While progress is being made, the majority of our educators still lack fundamental AI literacy skills – a critical need for responsible use as students adopt these tools at faster and faster rates. Our teachers deserve and require more -?they need sustained, practical support that acknowledges their time constraints while empowering them to confidently navigate this technological shift.??We have seen how much difference a 90-minute, practical, balanced workshop can make and the more significant impacts a PLC approach makes. What do you think? (Link in the comments for the full report)

I keep hearing from executives that they expect that a new generation of "AI natives" will show them how to use AI. I think this is a mistake: 1) Our research shows younger people do not really get AI or how to integrate into work 2) Experienced managers are often good prompters 3) The technology is advancing quite quickly and you need to use it to understand it

TODAY is our live webinar with OpenStax, Rice University and Brian Lukoff, Perusall Cofounder and Chief Technology Officer! Discover how our social learning platform with OpenStax content encourage meaningful student engagement. ?? When: Today, October 17th | 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM EDT ??There’s still time to register: https://hubs.li/Q02TK-Cc0 See you soon! ?? #EdTech #ActiveLearning #Reading #StudentLearning #Collaboration

Feedback can be one of the most powerful tools we have in education - but also one of the most useless and destructive. I'm in the midst of leading an ARC Discovery Project where we are designing interventions to help students make the most of feedback by improving their feedback literacy. Here's five things we've learnt so far: 1: Feedback literacy is too big a set of actions to target in one intervention. 2: Don’t just tell students what to do, scaffold their doing. 3: Normalise struggling with feedback through sharing your own experiences. 4: Work longitudinally on feedback literacy. 5: There is no one size fits all. More in the linked piece with coauthors Joanna Tai & Laura Hughes, including how we can help you collect data on your students' feedback literacy. Huge thanks to Sally Kift & Jason M. Lodge for publishing this piece!

This New York Times story presents a fascinating snapshot of the state of the K-12 curriculum market. Understood but unspoken in the story is how the regulatory and political oversight systems in place lag behind the technology. The social studies textbooks the story says are unused have been extensively reviewed and regulated, while the media teachers actually use is, by comparison, almost completely unexamined. That will change and those edtech players taking share from publishers need to be ready. In fact, it may yet be true in the end that the publishers' skills in navigating the regulatory and political oversight process are what will allow them to defend their market position, regardless of the form the curriculum materials ultimately take. https://lnkd.in/gauAWnVZ