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With Dan Bowen from Microsoft Australia and Ray Fleming from InnovateGPT
It's a fortnightly chat about Artificial Intelligence in Education - what it is, how it works, and the different ways it is being used. It's not too serious, or too technical, and is intended to be a good conversation of background information.
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“This podcast is produced by a Microsoft Australia & New Zealand employee, alongside an employee from InnovateGPT. The views and opinions expressed on this podcast are our own.”
Dec 11, 2019
Dan and Ray have been keeping an eye on how the press write about AI in education, and this week they talk about how the media write about AI for education projects, and discuss their personal perspective on the stories themselves, as well as the way that the media cover it. From "fears teachers could be replaced by robots" and "could robots do your job" to "exams could be replaced by AI in the future", there's plenty of headlines designed to get you to click and read, and in the podcast we're going deeper than the headline.
The articles discussed are:
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Under
digital surveillance: how American schools spy on millions of
kids
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/22/school-student-surveillance-bark-gaggle -
Under
AI’s Watchful Eye, China Wants to Raise Smarter
Students
https://www.wsj.com/video/under-ais-watchful-eye-china-wants-to-raise-smarter-students/C4294BAB-A76B-4569-8D09-32E9F2B62D19.html -
Exams
could be replaced by artificial intelligence in the future, private
school chief predicts
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/10/04/exams-could-replaced-artificial-intelligence-future-private/ -
Artificial
intelligence in Schools: An Ethical Storm is
Brewing
https://www.aare.edu.au/blog/?p=4325 -
'Software
never has a day off sick': fears teachers could be replaced by
robots
https://www.smh.com.au/education/software-never-has-a-day-off-sick-fears-teachers-could-be-replaced-by-robots-20190905-p52ocn.html -
Could
a robot do your job?
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-08/could-a-robot-do-your-job-artificial-intelligence/8782174 -
Where
exactly are we with AI in higher education?
https://www.studyinternational.com/news/ai-higher-education-2019/