AI in Education Newsletter of 2024

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Hello Everyone,

Since ChatGPT came out in late 2022, a lot of new Newsletters around AI have come into being. For parents, teachers, educators and even policy makers, I wanted to highlight a few of the top ones at the intersection of AI and Education. I hope to do this for other fields as well like:

• AI & Healthcare
• AI and Biotechnology
• AI and Science/Academia, and so forth.
• AI and Leadership, Management and C-suite Executives

This list includes a sampling of their work as well organized and forwarded by

Nick Potkalitsky, PhD .

If any particular topic interests you in AI at the intersection of your industry, there are many Newsletters likely already on that topic, you just have to find them . Substack will tend to have the most specialized Newsletters as it pertains to Education and AI today in mid 2024.

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The AI Education Digest: Top Insights from the Best Newsletters in the Field

By Nick Potkalitsky, PhD

As educational communities on platforms like X, Facebook, and Instagram continue to wane, Substack has risen as a vibrant hub for sharing and innovation at the crossroads of artificial intelligence and education.

In a recent statement, Noah Yuval Harari argued that rapid technological advancement has left educators uncertain about what to teach young people. However, an expanding cohort of teachers, academics, researchers, data scientists, librarians, and educational specialists are dedicating their time and effort to tackle just this critical question head-on. Week after week, they engage in thought-provoking discussions, share groundbreaking ideas, and collaborate to shape the future of education in the age of AI.

The diversity of these newsletters is truly remarkable. Within this vibrant community, there are those who embrace an AI-integrated future with open arms, such as Stefan Bauschard and Tim Desmond . Others, like Josh Blake , Marc Watkins , and Dan Meyer , approach the subject with a more cautious stance. Some members, including Claire Zau and Vriti Saraf , dedicate their efforts to providing news updates, keeping the community informed about the latest developments. Meanwhile, individuals like Rob Nelson , Michael Woudenberg , and Alberto Romero delve into the philosophical and theoretical aspects of AI and education, exploring the deeper implications of this intersection.

A significant portion of the community, including Lance Cummings , Mike Kentz , Alicia Bankhofer , Dr. Phillippa Hardman , and Alejandro Piad Morffis , focuses on the practical applications and issues surrounding AI in education, providing valuable insights and solutions. The brave and bold among us, such as the team behind AI x Education , Lance Eaton , and Christopher Graves , fearlessly dig into research archives, unearthing crucial findings and data.

Presently at Educating AI , I find myself working alongside fellow educators like Terry Underwood , Christopher Basgier , and Jane Rosenzweig , who are also attempting to tackle the “hard problem” of developing post-ChatGPT writing curricula. While we all navigate these differences based on our individual interests and the pressing issues of the moment, it is clear that our collective efforts are bound by a common thread: the unwavering commitment to shaping the future of education in the age of artificial intelligence.?

By fostering a diverse and inclusive community, we create a space where ideas can be shared, challenged, and refined. It is through this collaboration and the convergence of our unique perspectives that we can hope to uncover the most effective strategies for integrating AI into education, ensuring that future generations are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven world.

Nick Potkalitsky , Ph.D.

Educating AI ?

The Best AI x Education Substack (Alphabetical Order by Substack Title). This list is a resource and is listed in alphabetical order only.

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AI EduPathways

Mike Kentz

AI EduPathways

I'm an award-winning educator with 14 years' experience in teaching and journalism. Follow me as I infuse AI into the classroom experience and try to chart new pathways for teachers and students alike through this new frontier of AI in Education.

By Mike Kentz

1. Do Students Want AI Writing Feedback?
2. Flipping the Script on AI Cheating with "Linguistic Fingerprints"
3. Chat GPTs for Education

AI Log

Rob Nelson

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a blog about generative AI and education

By Rob Nelson

1. On Techno-pragmatism
2. Ethan Mollick says anthropomorphizing AI is a sin of necessity. Repent! I say.
3. Disruption is the wrong word for what's happening with generative AI

AI School Librarian

Elissa Malespina

The AI School Librarians Newsletter

Newsletter and Posts About the Intersection of School Libraries, Education and AI.

By Elissa Malespina

1. The Law Has Not Caught Up With AI Deepfakes
2. Empowering Education: UNESCO's AI Initiatives for Today's Educators
3. 10 Ai Tools for Academic Research

AI x Education

Lily Lee, Johnny Chang, and Aditya Syam

AI x Education

Curating the latest AI advancements in education into digestible insights, this blog empowers educators and administrators by demystifying AI and inspiring innovative teaching and learning strategies for the AI era.

By Johnny Chang

1. Data Privacy for AI in Schools
2. Custom Chatbots for Schools
3. The Environmental Impact of AI

AI + Education = Simplified

Lance Eaton

AI + Education = Simplified

A newsletter that works through what's going on in generative artificial intelligence and higher education in the hopes of making things simpler and clearer about what it means for what to do next.

By Lance Eaton

1. On Building a AI Policy for Teaching & Learning
2. On Not Using Generative AI
3. Using Generative AI throughout the Institution

Cognitive Resonance

Cognitive Resonance

by Benjamin Riley

Cognitive Resonance

Understanding generative AI using the lens of cognitive science

By Benjamin Riley

1. Generative AI is in the education "AIR"
2. Resistance to the overhyping of AI in education is not futile
3. Do we need a new scientific paradigm to understand AI?

Create. Innovate. Educate.

Alicia Bankhofer

Create. Innovate. Educate.

This is a personal substack of Alicia Bankhofer, an educator in Vienna, Austria. My main focus is AI in education.

By Alicia Bankhofer

1. Guiding students toward AI literacy through image generation
2. AI and the Creativity Conundrum
3. What's in a word, a name, a frame?

Cyborgs Writing

Lance Cummings

Cyborgs Writing

Exploring the creative interface between human and machine in writing, the classroom, and the workplace

By Lance Cummings

1. Why Every Writer Needs a Prompt Design Plan
2. How to Use Rhetoric to Repurpose Content with ChatGPT
3. What I Learned Comparing ChatGPT & Microsoft Copilot

Dr Phil's Newsletter, Powered by DOMS?? AI

Dr. Phillippa Hardman

Dr Phil's Newsletter, Powered by DOMS?? AI

Connecting the science of learning & AI with the art of learning experience design.

By Dr Philippa Hardman

1. Structured Prompting for Educators
2. AI-Powered Learning Design
3. The AI-Powered Subject Matter Expert

Educating AI

Nick Potkalitsky

Educating AI

Let's figure how to best integrate and implement generative AI into today's classrooms!

By Nick Potkalitsky

1. The Art of Imperfection: Why Human Writing Continues to Resonate in an AI-Driven World
2. The Critical Thinking Imperative: Thriving in an AI-Assisted Writing Landscape
3. The AI Writing Revolution: Empowering Authors to Embrace Innovation Strategically

Education Disrupted: Teaching and Learning in An AI World

Stefan Bauscard

Education Disrupted: Teaching and Learning in An AI World

How will AI change learning and instruction? How can learning and instruction help mold our AI world?

By Stefan Bauschard

1. AI, Metacognition, and Debate: Instruction is already Designed for an AI World
2. On AI: Jamie Dimon's Letter to Shareholders and What it Means for Educators
3. Claude3 Includes Agents, May Be Self-Aware, and Moves Past ChatGPT4 on Many Benchmarks

Ed3 World: Metaverse for Education Newsletter

Vriti Saraf ?? 3.0

Ed3 World: Metaverse for Education Newsletter

AI & web3 contextualized for education.

By Vriti Saraf ?? 3.0

1. Jailbreaking ChatGPT: Ed3 World Newsletter Issue #29
2. WTF are ETFs? Ed3 World Newsletter Issue #28
3. Real Threats of AI: Metaverse for Education Newsletter Issue #25

The Future of Being Human

Andrew Maynard

The Future of Being Human

Exploring the cutting edge of technology, society and the future of being human. Subscribe to get updates via email (free) or just browse!

By Andrew Maynard

1. What should we be teaching students now to prepare them for the future?
2. ASU announces a unique collaboration with OpenAI on using ChatGPT in education and research
3. We have a technology problem – and it probably isn't what you think

GPTeacher | Substack

Jack McLoughlin | _GPTeacher

GPTeacher | Substack

Here, we focus on responsibly implementing AI in the classroom.

By Jack McLoughlin | _GPTeacher

1. Introducing "Chat GPT in the Classroom"
2. Student Survey: Chat GPT & LLMs
3. The Raw Data

GSV: AI & Education

Claire Zau

GSV: AI & Education

GSV's Weekly Newsletter on AI and Education

By Claire Zau

1. GSV's AI News & Updates (03/25/24)
2. GSV's AI News & Updates (03/18/24)
3. GSV's AI News & Updates (03/04/24)

Graves Data Insights Substack

Graves Data Insights Substack

by Chris Graves

Graves Data Insights Substack

My Substack for summarizing research on AI in Education uses.

By Christopher Graves

1. Considering the Adoption Rate of AI in Education
2. Considering the Future of AI in Assessment Use and Feedback
3. AI Insight for Teachers' Efficacy, Pedagogy, and Classrooms

Kevin’s Substack

Kevin Price

Kevin’s Substack

My personal Substack

By Dr Kevin Price

1. Investigating and Experimenting with AI Tools for Teaching and Learning - Part I
2. Investigating and Experimenting with AI Tools for Teaching and Learning - Part II

Learning on Purpose

Eric Hudson

Learning on Purpose

Exploring what's possible in education, and how to get there.

By Eric Hudson

1. Using AI for Search and Research
2. What Schools Are Asking About AI, Part 2
3. Tech-Free Ways to Approach AI

Learning to Read, Reading to Learn

Terry Underwood

Learning to Read, Reading to Learn

This journal aims to comment on claims, questions, and concerns about public schools as sites for reading and writing pedagogy. As a teacher and professor, I draw on my background and experience and offer food for thought. My hope is to help schools.

By Terry Underwood

1. Embracing the Bat: Literacy Education in the Age of Advanced AI
2. Giving, Getting, and Grappling with Good Feedback: Improving Writing, Writers, and Readers
3. Bot Feedback and Scoring of Student Writing

Mathworlds

Dan Meyer

Mathworlds

Building better worlds for learning math.

By Dan Meyer

1. Khanmigo WANTS to Love Kids but Doesn’t Know How
2. Five Differences Between Human and AI Tutors
3. One Way Teachers and AI Could Help Each Other Out

Mostly Harmless Ideas

Alejandro Piad Morffis

Mostly Harmless Ideas

Opinions, essays, tutorials, educational articles, and short comments on Computer Science research, practice, and education.

By Alejandro Piad Morffis

1. The AI Revolution We Don't Need
2. On the role of Higher Education in the Information Age
3. The Techno-Pragmatist Manifesto

New Educator AI

Tim Desmond

New Educator AI

New Educator AI is dedicated to preparing educational leaders for the AI era, ensuring future generations are adept in using AI safely and responsibly.

By Tim Desmond

1. Beyond Algorithms
2. AI and Education: An Annual Report
3. Redefining Education: How AI is Shaping the Future of Learning

One Useful Thing

Ethan Mollick

One Useful Thing

Trying to understand the implications of AI for work, education, and life. By Prof. Ethan Mollick

By Ethan Mollick

1. On the necessity of a sin
2. Centaurs and Cyborgs on the Jagged Frontier
3. An AI Haunted World

Polymathic Being

Michael Woudenberg

Polymathic Being

Counterintuitive insights from technology, innovation, philosophy, psychology, and more.

By Michael Woudenberg

1. An AI Enabled Polymath
2. Don't Trust AI... Entrust It
3. The No True AI Fallacy

Prose & Processors

Christopher Basgier

Prose and Processors

What does it mean for humans to write in a world infused with generative AI? How can we practice, and teach, critical AI literacy? Includes personal takes, book reviews, and interviews.

By Christopher Basgier

1. Learning about Genre with ChatGPT
2. A Defense of Messy Writing
3. AI as Tool, AI as Object of Inquiry

Rhetorica

Marc Watkins

Rhetorica

Notes from a nontraditional student turned educator: culture, AI, education

By Marc Watkins

1. The Enduring Role of Writing in an AI Era
2. The AI Influencers Selling Students Learning Shortcuts
3. Education Is On The Frontlines Of The AI Culture Wars

Res Obscura

Benjamin Breen

Res Obscura

Notes on the history of technology, medicine, science, art, drugs, and empire from UC Santa Cruz history professor Benjamin Breen. Also: using AI in research and teaching.

By Benjamin Breen

1. Simulating History with ChatGPT
2. Simulating an LSD trip in 1963 with GPT-4
3. "He spoke of computers with some awe"

Tell Me Your Terrors: Joys and Fears of AI & Education

Hugh McGuire

Tell Me Your Terrors: Joys and Fears of AI & Education

Musings and conversations about the thrills and terrors AI for learning, knowledge, teaching, education, books and the web, from Hugh McGuire and guests.

By Hugh McGuire

1. 5+1 Provocative Statements about AI and EDU
2. AI, simplify
3. Introducing: Tell Me Your Terrors: Joys and Fears of AI & Education

The Absent-Minded Professor

Josh Brake

The Absent-Minded Professor

Technology, education, and human flourishing. All through the lens of a prototyping mindset.

By Josh Brake

1. What To Teach Young People
2. I Grew Up Oblivious About Grades. It Ruined Me
3. AI Tutors Can't Solve Bloom's Two Sigma Problem

The Algorithmic Bridge

Alberto Romero

The Algorithmic Bridge

A blog about AI that's actually about people

By Alberto Romero

1. My Kids Will Fancy Generative AI, I Choose to Fight It
2. AI Writing Is a Race to the Bottom
3. 3 Powerful Strategies (Other Than AI Detectors) That Teachers Can Adopt to Adapt to Generative AI

The Future of Higher Education

Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker

The Future of Higher Education

Readers turn to The Future of Higher Education for fresh perspectives on leadership in higher education. We primarily explore AI, personal leadership, strategy, and related topics. Welcome!

By Jeppe Klitgaard Stricker

1. On AI, and the Fluid Boundaries of Creativity
2. 13 Nuggets of AI Wisdom for Higher Education Leaders
3. Deep Learning: Five New Superpowers of Higher Education

The Paste Eaters Blog

Adam

The Paste Eaters Blog

A blog for teachers who get the feeling that the only opinions that count in education... do not belong to teachers. I try to post weekly.

By Adam

1. 50 Free Metaphorical Writing Prompts
2. AI in the Classroom: Metaphorical Writing Prompts
3. "Help! I don't know how to teach writing!" (Part 1)

The Value Junction

Bechem Ayuk

The Value Junction

Education, technology, and everything in-between. Read in over 50 countries worldwide.

By Bechem Ayuk

1. How To Develop An AI Integration Plan For Your School (Including a template)
2. AI in Education: What Educational Institutions Need to Know
3. Here's How Teachers Should Be Trained To Use AI

Tomorrow's Teaching

Andreas Matthias

Tomorrow's Teaching

Catch up with modern teaching practices! We break down AI and teaching into digestible, applicable concepts, especially for university teaching in the humanities. By a university lecturer with 30 years experience in IT and philosophy.

By Dr Andreas Matthias

1. The Opera browser’s VPN and integrated AI
2. Effortlessly create model answers and marking schemes
3. Can AI be genuinely inspiring? And should it be?

Writing Hacks

Jane Rosenweig

Writing Hacks

Write more effectively at work.

By Jane Rosenzweig

1. Four Rules for Writing in the Age of AI
2. Should you use ChatGPT to write at work?
3. Writing and Learning to Write in the Age of AI

Editor’s Conclusion

• Everyday policy makers, teachers, professors and school administrators are debating the role of AI in education. This is very much a work in progress. Each day students, children, teenagers and young adults are using AI in new ways for their studies, entertainment, leisure and personal discovery.
• As Generative AI unlocks new capabilities, institutions will have to adapt and create clear guidelines around these new tools and how to integrate them.
• If you have a particular interest or concern around this topic, feel free to share it.

• We might reach a time when artificial intelligence is able to personalize education with hundreds of thousands of data points that could radically alter or disrupt the current grade school and college systems that seem to be outdated or rapidly becoming less relevant for preparing the workforce of tomorrow.?