ChatEDU – The AI & Education Podcast

In this episode of ChatEDU, Librarians at the Center, the Unsung Leaders of School AI, Matt and Liz open with a wild legal story out of Mississippi, where a federal judge canceled a trial and disqualified all four lawyers after attorneys on both sides were caught using generative AI that cited fabricated court cases.The RundownMatt and Liz celebrate the regional winners at the White House, including educator Anne Win and her AP Biology students' AI work.A free new resource using real-world AI scenarios and the SEE framework to help families and educators navigate AI in education.Google partners with ISTE and ASCD to launch free, self-paced micro-credentials for teachers, including intro courses on Gemini, NotebookLM, and vibe coding.Meta launches a $115M academy to train local workers in data center construction, alongside a similar $50M Google program.OpenAI selects 26 university innovators for its inaugural cohort, giving them model access and $10,000 grants to build solutions from disaster detection to audio learning games.The hosts look at Google's experimental "Dream Beans" photo feed, "momfluencers" pitching ChatGPT as a co-parent, and Hasbro's AI Mr. Potato Head.Google's CEO delivers a Stanford commencement address avoiding AI entirely, following recent graduation walkouts and protests.A recent Wired investigation finds that Elon Musk's Grok still generates non-consensual explicit deepfakes of prominent women.Anthropic complies with US government regulations by blocking access to its Mythos and Fable models for non-Americans and foreign employees within the country.While NAEP showed slight literacy gains for nine-year-olds, an Axios report highlights millions of low-literacy adult workers using AI to mask reading and writing gaps.The Beneath the SurfaceMatt and Liz dig into the Genesee Valley BOCES "Teaching About AI" report, which lays out eight provocations and argues that librarians are the most vital leaders for district-wide AI integration.The Bright ByteMayo Clinic researchers have validated an AI model that scans routine CT scans to flag pancreatic cancer up to three years before diagnosis, roughly doubling specialists' early-detection rate.AnnouncementsPurchase Learning They'll Love - Dr. Elizabeth RaddayAmazon - https://tinyurl.com/22t9hz77Seeing through the Machine – Teaching Bias as an Equity Practice in AI - Dr. Elizabeth Radday - https://tinyurl.com/4ybwkn7aCheck 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-balance⁠⁠⁠Address Screen Time concerns - ⁠skills21.org/ai/screenshift⁠ LinksPresidential AI Challenge Championshttps://tinyurl.com/yt55wrjuSEE GenAI Literacy Snapshothttps://tinyurl.com/yt2fxr3rGoogle AI Educator Series on Teaching with AIhttps://tinyurl.com/2pzdfse2Meta launches $115 million data center job guaranteehttps://tinyurl.com/3wrv43meGrowing the next generation of American workershttps://tinyurl.com/ytbp7jn5OpenAI names first ChatGPT Futures class to back student AI projectshttps://tinyurl.com/mpb6amc4Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better ‘Coparent’ Than Menhttps://tinyurl.com/36dzrmycHasbro to license AI versions of Mr. Potato Headhttps://tinyurl.com/2x27mz3mBill C-34, the Safe Social Media Acthttps://tinyurl.com/mupadpn9Google CEO skips AI in Stanford commencement addresshttps://tinyurl.com/4746h6reGrok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakeshttps://tinyurl.com/mttanc48Students show gains in reading and mathhttps://tinyurl.com/yrwc4vj5AI is masking America's "post-literate" workforcehttps://tinyurl.com/jt2ke2ejTeaching About AI: A Report for the K-12 Fieldhttps://tinyurl.com/zfkthmzuMayo Clinic AI detects cancer 3 years before diagnosishttps://tinyurl.com/5dpbk4bt

In this ChatEDU Check-In: Reality of the Learning Stall, Liz explores a computer science professor's experience with an undergraduate student who used an AI agent to complete a research project. The student relied entirely on the AI tool, leaving him completely unable to explain the logic of the code or notice critical flaws in the research methodology. This scenario highlights how automated tools can create an illusion of progress while halting actual learning.Key Takeaways:Invalid Experimentation: The AI generated the code, training data, and test data, creating a closed simulation that made the study scientifically invalid, which the student failed to notice.Stalled Skill Development: Over-reliance on large language models prevents students from learning fundamental, discipline-specific skills, such as navigating and reading raw computer code.The Illusion of Flawlessness: AI is optimized for user satisfaction and compliance, which can easily mislead inexperienced users into believing fundamentally flawed work is perfect.Liz’s Two Cents: Generative AI removes the productive friction and tension necessary for true learning, creating a dangerous feedback loop where students mistake easy completion for actual understanding. School leaders must design learning experiences that require students to engage with basic fundamentals, ensuring automated tools do not bypass the cognitive struggle required to build genuine skills.Article:The Anatomy of a Learning Stallhttps://bit.ly/4dY7fEX