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Welcome back to the Titcher's AI Cafe. I'm Kane, a teacher and a parent who wants AI to give us back our time.
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I share practical classroom-tested AI strategies to cut down your workload
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and prove your feedback and reduce stress so you can get your evenings back
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and be more presently a friend of family. No jargon, just actual steps, grab your mug,
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now let's get going.
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What's been happening in the last week in AI?
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First is open AI, remove auto models, the 5.1 family of disappeared as of the 11th of March,
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auto models such as the 40 and the 4.1 have obviously gone much earlier than that.
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Sounds technical, but if you think you've done something and you've found yourself thinking,
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I'm sure this worked differently last month, you're probably right because there's a different model.
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What else? What is happening at Google's?
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And our substantial Gemma update across dock sheets, slides and drive,
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Gemma I can now build spreadsheets more fully, fully in missing data.
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And so broader questions across your files and related content in your Google Drive.
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Playing turns the blank page problem is being targeted directly.
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For teachers this could move faster drafting of documents quicker spreadsheets,
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an easier synthesis of scattered materials you've got spread across your resources.
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But this is obviously where a professional judgment question here,
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as I begin to tauting up our structure, do we really want to do that?
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And do we really want to do that for our students,
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creating things from blank pages, as opposed to us actually doing it?
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Moresof have released this new Way 3 update for Office 365.
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I basically, once again, more support across its different platforms.
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I just know in a separate window chat window has been happening so far.
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And also says, clause no variable in mainline copilot chat.
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I installed it in wonder Excel the other day, which was quite interesting,
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as well as Word, it embedded within that.
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So you've seen this into locking even different platforms, working with each other.
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Once again, this is important for schools that actually use
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Microsoft as their main platform.
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So Grock 4.2 beta and multi-agent beta has landed.
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Otherwise it's not directly for the classroom.
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It does signal this is the way the systems are heading as they're always saying.
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If I form what IO to be more changed semi-autonomous work,
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it's made eventually filtering the teaching tools when we look at things like
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plan, draft, revise, check across more,
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get some more independence checks coming out of that.
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And like I said, it all filters out eventually one form or another.
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Anthropic Institute was launched this week, and this is more about public interest
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and research around governance than product features.
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I think that's a good thing with progressing it that way.
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Anthropic seems to be taking that sort of pathway.
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I think it's worth including the shoes that AI companies are not just competing
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on speeding features.
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They're also competing to shape the social story around AI,
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our work and obviously try and build some public trust.
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So this is important for teachers that IO literacy cannot be just about how to write a prompt.
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It's obviously how it's actually used, a lot of muskless,
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reading an article this morning how I was saying AI should be scrapped and rebuilt
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from scratch to solve a lot of the different problems that are existing.
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And bit of a lot of story this week, an Australia report described schools
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are using IO chatbots to question students about their own submitted work.
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Almost like an oral, I guess, interrogation by bottom.
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It's funny, slightly absurd and somehow completely believable
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that we're using AI to check AI.
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So in the essay submitted, the chatbots says explain paragraph three.
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AI is actually trying to police what AI does,
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and it'll how well the student can describe their chapter three.
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It can actually say whether they're actually written it themselves or not.
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Also tells us something a bit more serious that I guess the technology
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of race and assessment is already here.
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There's a lot of different ways of people are actually dealing with that.
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But like I said, getting AI to check whether he used AI in a verbal sense is a good progression,
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though he still should still be the job of the teacher.
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So the takeaway from this week is simple, check the tools you're already using,
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as I always probably got some new features integrated into that.
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And have a play with them.
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And keep up the good way. I'll talk to you later.