Recommended viewing
Six pieces chosen for this workshop. Between them they cover the learning science, the detection question, and what AI is doing to the daily experience of studying and teaching.
Educating Kids in the Age of A.I.
Ezra Klein and education researcher Rebecca Winthrop on what AI is doing to student engagement, and what education is for when a machine can produce the assignment. Framed around schooling, but the engagement argument transfers directly to university and TAFE classrooms.
Veritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning
Derek Muller of Veritasium, whose doctorate examined why learning from video is harder than it looks, on what the learning science actually says about AI in education; the effortful parts of learning are precisely the parts the tools invite students to skip.
What You Must Know Before AGI Arrives
Carnegie Mellon's Po-Shen Loh presents a two-part lecture on education in the AI era. Covers why "creativity" alone isn't enough to stay ahead of AI, why thinking like a teacher is the ultimate survival skill, and how empathy and simulating the world are now essential skills.
The One AI Detector People Actually Trust
The Verge's video report on AI writing detection: why most detectors have burned their credibility, and what is different about the one that researchers and journalists keep returning to. Watch alongside the detection sections of this workshop.
Did a Human Write This?
The Atlantic on the question every marker now carries into every submission: can you actually tell whether a piece of writing is human, and what happens when institutions act as though they can?
Is AI Making College Students Dumber? Ronny Chieng Investigates
Ronny Chieng takes on AI on campus, at one point fighting chatbots by becoming one. Comedy, but the anxieties it lampoons are the ones this workshop treats seriously; a good palate cleanser between the heavier sessions.
More on AI in education and assessment
Carried over from the site's Videos & Podcasts collection: the entries most relevant to teaching and student-facing staff.
TAFETalks: Navigating Assessment and Integrity in the Age of GenAI
Dr Lenka Ucnik from TEQSA outlines national AI guidelines for Higher Education and their relevance for TAFEs. Dr Hayden Park and Dr Elly Thomson from Melbourne Polytechnic present findings on AI-generated feedback in teacher education, highlighting benefits, risks and practical implications.
AI-Detector Systems Falsely Accusing Students of Cheating
ABC News reports on Australian schools using AI detection tools that are wrongly accusing students. Examines the flawed appeals process and the traumatic impact on students when detection tools get it wrong.
How Artificial Intelligence Is Reshaping College for Students and Professors
PBS reports on the first senior class to have spent nearly its entire college career in the age of generative AI. As the technology improves and becomes harder to distinguish from human work, it's shaking academia to its core.
Education in Transition: How AI Is Changing Teaching
AI tools are increasingly being used in schools. Does this make learning easier? Are young people being trained for the jobs of tomorrow? Or are they losing their ability to think independently and creatively?
How AI Is Being Used in Our Schools
ABC 7.30 explores how children in Australian schools are incorporating AI into the school day as companies in the US and China compete for dominance. Are they learning skills or asking AI to do their homework?
Hypothetically Speaking: How AI Is Impacting the Education Sector
A panel exploring how generative AI tools are being implemented in K-12 classrooms and beyond. Considers the future of teaching and learning, new safety and security risks, strategies for equitable access to reliable tools, and approaches to security awareness training.
What Is A.I. Doing to Higher Education?
Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett discusses the existential threat that AI poses to the traditional humanities degree, and why he believes thousands of new schools will emerge outside the university system to carry on exploration of what it means to be a person in the world.
Who Will Survive and Thrive in the New AI Era?
MIT professor David Autor explains why the key question isn't what jobs can be automated, but which tasks within a job are automated and who benefits. Stanford professor Erik Brynjolfsson discusses whether AI will widen inequality or expand opportunity.