AI on the Sidelines, Near Real-Time Coaching for Every Educator | Ep. 113

In this episode of ChatEDU AI on the Sidelines, Near Real-Time Coaching for Every Educator, open with the "Sad Wives of AI," a Wired piece on the marital strain and household gender gaps emerging as Bay Area tech husbands pour themselves into the AI wave.

The Rundown

Google has introduced automatic Google Drive syncing for NotebookLM, eliminating the need to manually update uploaded Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides.

Upgrading to Gemini 1.5 Pro transformed NotebookLM's image upload capabilities into full multimodal visual understanding, opening up new use cases for students and teachers using screenshots and real world photos.

A roundup of recent AI failures: a $100 million Pizza Hut franchisee lawsuit against Dragon Tail AI, Starbucks scrapping a faulty AI inventory tool, a study finding 60%+ of AI search responses inaccurate, and fake journals publishing AI papers.

A Wall Street Journal report highlights how persistent memory features in major chatbots can backfire by latching onto stale, outdated, or sensitive personal data and skewing future advice.

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten introduced a 10 plan calling for a complete ban on screens for preschool through second grade and a prohibition on student facing AI in all elementary schools.

The School Superintendents Association is pairing 50 superintendents with 100 students to collaborate with MIT experts and draft a student led national AI policy for public schools.

Students from New Haven's Engineering and Science University Magnet School developed a functioning visual prosthesis utilizing advanced vision language models for real time hazard detection for the visually impaired.

The Beneath the Surface

Matt and Liz explore Urban Assembly's Project CAFE, which delivers near-real-time coaching to every educator. CEO David Adams joins to discuss using AI-driven frameworks to improve teacher development, student engagement, and AI integration in K-12 classrooms.

https://www.urbanassembly.org/

https://www.urbanassembly.org/what-we-do/project-cafe

The Bright Byte

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative's Biohub is an open-source world model of protein biology that predicts complex protein shapes in seconds and designs disease-targeting proteins in days. Being fully open source, it lets researchers worldwide download the data and accelerate breakthroughs on their own.

Announcements

Purchase Learning They'll Love - Dr. Elizabeth Radday

Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/22t9hz77

Seeing through the Machine – Teaching Bias as an Equity Practice in AI - Dr. Elizabeth Radday - https://tinyurl.com/4ybwkn7a

Check out our middle / high school Student AI Literacy course - ​​⁠⁠⁠www.skills21.org/ai/learnai⁠⁠⁠

Explore Skills21’s FREE social media literacy curriculum - ⁠⁠⁠https://www.skills21.org/social-balance⁠⁠⁠

Address Screen Time concerns - ⁠skills21.org/ai/screenshift⁠

Links

Meet the Sad Wives of AI

https://tinyurl.com/mr4xf8ze

Automatic Drive syncing in NotebookLM

https://tinyurl.com/38kfana4

Unlocking NotebookLM's best feature

https://tinyurl.com/3ppt3ccz

Pizza Hut franchisee says AI caused $100M in damages

https://tinyurl.com/5ypp52ua

Exclusive: Starbucks scraps AI inventory tool across North America

https://tinyurl.com/5a68wphd

AI Just Isn’t Right

https://tinyurl.com/33ve2p6u

Fake journals publish AI papers under professors' names

https://tinyurl.com/3tbf5rpb

Your Chatbot's Long Memory Isn't Always a Good Thing

https://tinyurl.com/4dzpb77n

AFT president urges screen and AI bans for young students

https://tinyurl.com/tu56kxc9

Let Digital-Native Students Lead the AI Revolution in Education

https://tinyurl.com/y589exk8

New Haven Magnet School Is Only High School Team at Yale Innovation Summit

https://tinyurl.com/mr352pte

A World Model of Protein Biology

https://tinyurl.com/5ca6upk2