B A N A N A S 🍌

Hey human,

It will be the first week back for many of us in England, and I am interested if anything AI was mentioned in your safeguarding sessions during this time. Reply to this email if you did have anything AI and safeguarding.

📚 AI+education news

• Correlation between ChatGPT use and Summer > Daniel Willingham quotes a graph that highlights a decrease in LLM Chatbot usage during the summer holidays. Ethan Mollick provides a retort to this here.

• Walkthrus introduces Chloe > Popular coaching and teaching technique book Walkthrus will soon introduce an AI assistant, Chloe, to ‘support coaching and teaching.’

🌍 Wider AI updates

• Taco Bell scales back its AI drive-through efforts > The rise of the machines is not quite here yet as it turns out that they can be beaten by ordering 18,000 cups of water.

• Gemini’s image is bananas > Gemini’s new AI image model is designed to make more precise edits to images based on natural language requests from users. It preserves the consistency of faces, animals, and other details, unlike most rival tools. Anyone can try it here.

🎯Prompt

• TA Prompt Sheet > This idea comes from Deputy Grocott on Twitter. He uploaded a powerpoint into an AI tool and asked for a Key Facts Support Sheet that he could provide to Teaching Assistants (TAs) to support their understanding of the lesson and support others. Those that have TAs know how busy they are and how difficult finding time to go through lessons can be. Use the prompt below once you have uploaded a lesson plan or resource.

You are an expert at distilling the key learning points from educational material. Use the attached document create a key facts sheet to support and up-skill Teaching Assistants. These documents should provide the key details for the Teaching Assistant, including basic facts, representations, key teaching point, misconception and vocabulary. This is so they can become familiar with the lesson and use it to support pupils.

Till next week.

Mr A 🦾