🪄 AI in Education Newsletter by MagicSchool

AI in Education Newsletter
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 TLDR Updates from MagicSchool.ai

Apply Now to be an AI Pioneer: As the new school year approaches, we’re looking for more educators to join our AI Pioneers program to help us reach our mission of bringing an AI Assistant to every teacher in the world. Love MagicSchool? Want to help others fight burnout and embrace the magic of AI in education? Like free “Teachers are Magic” swag? Apply now! 

New Tools! We added new tools this week focused on science and math: a 5E lesson plan generator, Math Spiral Review, and additional ones coming before the end of the week. Try them now.

Tool Updates - Use with Any Standards Coming This Week: The lesson plan generator and unit plan generator can now be informed by any standard set (CCSS, State Standards, Worldwide Standards). Try them now.

Login Issues Stuck on “Loading”: We’ve had some login issues over the last 24 hours that have resulted in some folks seeing a “Loading" screen and not getting to the application (specifically on a phone browser). This issue has been resolved.

Haven’t been back to MagicSchool in a while? There are a ton of new tools, quality improvement to existing tools, and interface updates that make things even easier to use! Check it out now!

AI in Education Reads

AI Isn’t the Problem. It’s How We Use It, Especially in Schools (Education Week) - The article discusses the transformative potential of AI tools like ChatGPT in education, suggesting that while these tools can be seen as a means to cheat, they actually present an opportunity to re-envision our understanding of student success, shifting the focus from robotic learning to fostering critical thinking, empathy, compassion, and intrinsic interests, thus promoting holistic child development.

Yes, AI could profoundly disrupt education. But maybe that’s not a bad thing (The Guardian) - In an engaging discussion on artificial intelligence in education, Harvard University's Jal Mehta and Rick Hess discuss the potential of AI as a tool in enhancing learning processes, its possible impact on traditional teaching methods, and the necessity of training students to use and exercise judgment about AI applications effectively, all while acknowledging the potential risk of AI becoming a substitute rather than an enhancement to learning.

Teachers Lead in AI Adoption and Sentiment in Education (FWT) The inaugural State of AI in Education Report unveils increased usage and positive impact of AI technologies in the educational sector, highlighting both student and teacher sentiments, the potential of AI in addressing pandemic-related learning loss, and the critical role of teachers in advocating and ensuring equity in AI adoption.

AI Tech Headlines

Meta to make new version of AI model available free of charge on Microsoft (The Guardian) Meta and Microsoft have jointly launched Llama 2, an open-source large language model trained on 2 trillion tokens with 4k token context windows, outperforming similar models such as GPT-4 in terms of training size and comparably performing to ChatGPT, available for both research and commercial use.

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That’s it for today’s update! Until next week - keep up with us on LinkedIn, Instagram, Tik Tok, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook.

Warm regards,

Adeel Khan
Founder & CEO, MagicSchool.ai