AI killed the video (meeting) star!

Hellloooooo human,

It’s back to the grind of work for me this week, so let’s get right to it!

📚 Knowledge builders

• FacultyAI → This is a company that recently won a £3 million contract to develop AI to support teachers’ lesson plans and mark homework. It will do this through building a ‘content store’ of curriculum materials and prior pupils’ assessments.

• AI Natives → The latest iteration of the ‘digital’ native. Many people in senior positions are allegedly waiting around for these natives to teach them how to use AI. It turns out they may not be the source of expertise they were expecting.

🤖 Industry updates

•  A new report provides a look at the reality of AI in England → 

  Some of the headlines include the the following:

  1. Only 30% of schools have an AI policy in place.

  2. Independent schools are ahead of state schools when it comes to AI readiness.

  3. Creating resources is the most prevalent use case of AI.

  4. Training and CPD are key for AI in schools to be successful.

• HeyGen AI Avatar → Here is a conversation between Ethan Mollick and an AI avatar on a video call. While it is far from perfect, that the avatar could use whatever large language model it is trained on to react in real time is impressive.

✨ Fresh prompts

1. Self-assessment feedback→ I am sceptical that AI can provide high-quality formative feedback, particularly regarding writing. However, I do think that it can help with summative feedback, especially if you have a rubric. Here is one I found online.

   

   You can take an essay that you have written for an example, coupled with the rubric to get AI to assess it. If you are doing this on a large scale, it is always good practice to get some humans to QA the judgements too. This would enable you build up a large bank of examples across a range of different standards that you can use.

You are an expert (subject) marker and you can use rubrics to assess in (subject) subjectively without the bias that comes from human markers. Use the rubric attached to carefully assess the the piece of writing at the end of this prompt. For each section, provide a rational for why you have given it that grade. You do not need to provide any formative assessment as to how they can improve it. 

Teachers should use their domain expertise to be more specific. If you want to focus on a particular aspect such as use of specific vocabulary or connectives, then include this in the prompt.

You may get more accurate outputs if you feed in the essay section by section rather than the whole thing as it means there is less data for the AI to use to hallucinate.

As ever, thanks for reading and keep on prompting! Mr A 🦾