Ed-Technical

In the fourth episode of this series, Libby and Owen talk to John Roberts, co-founder and Director of Product and Engineering at Oak National Academy. Oak was originally created as an online classroom in 2020 as a rapid response to the coronavirus outbreak. They have delivered over 150 million lessons in their online classroom. They have now become a new national body supporting curriculum and providing free resources to teachers of 4- to 16-year-olds in England.Oak National Academy recently launched a couple of AI experiments (a quiz designer and lesson planner) designed to help teachers save time. John talks us through the experience of starting Oak during the pandemic, what potential he sees for AI to help save teacher’s time, his thoughts on AI generating quality content, and how they’re optimising base large language models for education (and find out more about retrieval augmented generation or RAG).There’s also some good bonus content from John (an ex-physics teacher) on what a negative displacement in a longitudinal wave indicates...Guests and resourcesTES profile on John Roberts Information on Oak’s AI experimentsInformation about Oak’s approach to open government licensing Join us on social media: BOLD (@BOLD_insights), Libby Hills (@Libbylhhills) and Owen Henkel (@owen_henkel) Listen to all episodes of Ed-Technical here: https://bold.expert/ed-technical Subscribe to BOLD’s newsletter: https://bold.expert/newsletter Stay up to date with all the latest research on child development and learning: https://bold.expert Credits: Sarah Myles for production support; Josie Hills for graphic design

Kristen DiCerbo, Chief Learning Officer at Khan Academy, discusses the innovative AI tutor, Khanmigo, which uses GPT-4 technology. She shares her journey melding education with tech, highlighting the transformative potential for special education. Kristen explains the principles of mastery learning that guide Khan Academy’s approach, emphasizing personalized learning paths. She also reveals insights from collaborating with OpenAI and explores the future of AI in education, illustrating how technology can enhance student engagement and knowledge retention.

Join two former teachers - Libby Hills from the Jacobs Foundation and AI researcher Owen Henkel - for the Ed-Technical podcast series about AI in education. Each episode, Libby and Owen will ask experts to help educators sift the useful insights from the AI hype. They’ll be asking questions like - how does this actually help students and teachers? What do we actually know about this technology, and what’s just speculation? And (importantly!) when we say AI, what are we actually talking about? In this episode, Libby and Owen talk to Dr. Dora Demszky, Assistant Professor in Education Data Science at Stanford University. Dora’s background is in linguistics and natural language processing. Her work focuses on using natural language processing tools to support educators. Dora has been working with large language models for a whole, before the recent explosion of interest. So she shares what it’s been like to move from having to explain what a large language model is, to having the world obsess about them! She also talks about the potential and limitations of using large language models to support educators with activities like teacher coaching and writing feedback to students. Next episode Libby and Owen speak to Dr. Paul Atherton, founder of Fab Inc and Fab Data. Like Dora, Paul is also interested in building AI driven tools for teachers, but he focuses on doing so for teachers in highly resource constrained places like Sierra Leone. Guests and resourcesDr. Dora DemszkyDora’s paper on using chatGPT for teacher coachingCoverage of Dora’s research showing positive benefits of providing automated feedback to instructorsJoin us on social media: BOLD (@BOLD_insights), Libby Hills (@Libbylhhills) and Owen Henkel (@owen_henkel) Listen to all episodes of Ed-Technical here: https://bold.expert/ed-technical Subscribe to BOLD’s newsletter: https://bold.expert/newsletter Stay up to date with all the latest research on child development and learning: https://bold.expert Credits: Sarah Myles for production support; Josie Hills for graphic design

Join two former teachers - Libby Hills from the Jacobs Foundation and AI researcher Owen Henkel - for the Ed-Technical podcast series about AI in education. Each episode, Libby and Owen will ask experts to help educators sift the useful insights from the AI hype. They’ll be asking questions like - how does this actually help students and teachers? What do we actually know about this technology, and what’s just speculation? And (importantly!) when we say AI, what are we actually talking about? In the first episode of this new series, Libby and Owen talk to assessment expert Daisy Christodoulou MBE. Daisy is Director of Education at No More Marking, an online assessment platform. She’s written three books on education, including one on assessment. No More Marking has been doing a lot of research in ChatGPT and its educational applications. Daisy talks about why she thinks we should be hesitant to use ChatGPT in classrooms and schools. She also highlights that ChatGPT is currently too error prone for many educational use cases. Next episode Libby and Owen speak to Dr. Dora Demszky, Assistant Professor in Education Data Science at Stanford University, about using large language models to support educators. Guests and resourcesDaisy Christodoulou MBEDaisy’s guidance on large language models (LLMs) for schools Transcript from The Commons Science and Technology Committee’s inquiry into the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in education, including oral evidence from Daisy ChristodoulouJoin us on social media: BOLD (@BOLD_insights), Libby Hills (@Libbylhhills) and Owen Henkel (@owen_henkel) Listen to all episodes of Ed-Technical here: https://bold.expert/ed-technical Subscribe to BOLD’s newsletter: https://bold.expert/newsletter Stay up to date with all the latest research on child development and learning: https://bold.expert Credits: Sarah Myles for production support; Josie Hills for graphic design