Latest Guest Post at AI Supremacy

What We Learned About Education and AI in 2023

Greetings, Dear Readers,

I just wanted to send a quick note letting everyone know that on this Wednesday I published a Guest Post, “What We Learned About Education and AI in 2023” at Michael Spencer’s amazing Substack,

AI Supremacy

, home to over 46,000 subscribers. Since I arrived on Substack in July, Michael has extended me nothing but kindness and enthusiasm for my writing.

Not only does Michael write beautiful copy that is always thought provoking, topically on-point, and just-controversial enough start a good debate in the comments section, he also works tirelessly behind the scenes to break down the sometimes hierarchical and non-inclusive trappings of the online AI and Tech community. Thanks, Michael, for doing what you do and making Substack a better place to be!!!

Here are few of my favorite posts from his newsletter. Check them out:

1. “Top AI Newsletters of 2024 on Substack”

2. “AI Took My Job”

3. “Generative AI Is Breaking Society”

4. “Can AI Automate Vertical Farming?”

5. “How AI Might Help Us Survive on Mars”

In my Guest Post, I cover a lot of ground. My primary goal in this piece is to call teachers, administrators, parents, and students to action. We should no longer linger in the state of disruption that has resulted from AI’s arrival on the educational scene. It is time to push towards thoughtful, measured, engaging, and evidence-based methods for integrating and implementing AI into today’s schools.

These are the topics covered in this post. It is a long one—about 5000 words!!! Bookmark it as a resource for later. And if you have to the time, impress the heart button as a gesture of a kind affirmation.

Table of Contents

1. 💡 Paradigm Shifts

2. 📣 Call to Action

3. 🧾 Policy

4. ✍🏻 AI Literacy

5. 📊 Models and Interfaces

6. 🎓 Tutoring and Engagement

7. 📜 Writing Instruction

8. 📋 Evaluation and Assessment

9. 👉🏻 Bias, Disability, Accessibility

10. 👌 Recommendations for AI-Responsive Educators

Please let me know if you want me to follow up on any of the items or sections in this article in a later newsletter. Since writing the piece, I have been thinking a lot about my section on evaluation.

Jane Rosenzweig

recently wrote an interesting article with a great section on AI and evaluation. She reminded me that we need to be very thoughtful about how we integrate AI as a writing assessment tool into our curriculum. Her piece rightly argues that AI provides evaluations that reflect an encoded set of values, assumptions, and pre-existing ideas about what good writing is. Just run a simple “revise” prompt on your favorite large language model to experience these values for yourself.

To push these default values,

Terry Underwood

recently reminded me that we all need to become better coders, but here, traditional writing curriculum crosses over into what is now known as “prompt engineering.” Just how much time and energy should writing instructors spend on “prompt engineering”? This will become one of the most hotly contested questions in writing curriculum circles in the next couple years.

But more on this emerging debate in a later post!!! For now, enjoy AI Supremacy and my Guest Post!!!

Thanks for reading Educating AI!

Nick Potkalitsky, Ph.D.