Ai Tech Update for Educators 6th Ape

Welcome back to the Titch's AI Cafe. I'm Kane, a teacher and a parent who wants AI to give us back our time.

I share practical classroom-tested AI strategies to cut down your workload,

improve your feedback and reduce stress so you can get your evenings back

and be more presently a friend of the family. No jargon, just actual steps, grab your mug,

and let's get going. Welcome back to the tech update. Today is the 6th of April.

Easter Monday for us in the Christian faith around the world. I'm sure about others,

even others without the faith that are probably enjoying their Easter eggs after yesterday,

because that's become more consumerism more than, I guess, the origin of Easter and it's actually

meaning for us. And I almost forgot to do the podcast today. I thought I'd go a bit carried away.

I got to die off school, start of our school holidays. So I got a little bit sidetracked today.

So it's a little bit like getting out, but I do apologize a bit about that.

And the other thing I wanted to mention was I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was going to have it

go chat-chippity in the car. I've been playing with it the last few days. Obviously,

if you get the latest iPhone update and you got car play, it's 26.4,

and you can now put it as a widget or as an app inside the car. And I find it worked pretty well.

Pretty good. I like having conversations when I'm driving a long distance by myself,

like they do a couple of one-hour drives to go see my father and set up his internet for him

over this long weekend. So you can actually get a lot of conversations and things done in an

hour coming them back. And what I really like it for is just that off-the-cuff brainstorming,

organising ideas, having a sounding board for yourself. I do like to tell the chat to be

really rough with me and not agree with everything I say, because at the same time, obviously,

I want to come up with the best ideas I need to refine them. So having catch-chippity, saying

that's fantastic isn't really what I want out of that. But suggest give it a go. But obviously,

if you're driving, keep yourself safe, pay attention to the road. This is moral conversation

around on top of that. And if you're a bit of a frustrated driver, make sure you don't swear at

the app, you might upset a little bit. So what's been happening last week? Well, these are coming

for most of the Western world. It really hasn't really been an issue. So Moxoff for a list of

things called a physical critiquing council, where one generates aio response and the other

checks it. So the idea is multiple models are producing answers that can be compiled

side by side. On the first surface is actually pretty good. A bit of a technical detail really,

you're not really going to notice that much. But it changes the nature of the tool for those

using co-pollot. Because I guess for one, the aio is no longer presenting a single acid,

potentially getting more than one answer coming out of that. And it's a good way to stimulate

a conversation between experts, which I guess if you think of the aio is experts with each other

having a conversation. So that's what's happening behind the scenes there. Moxoff has always

introduced the thing called co-work. This is similar to the Claude I've been playing with

their co-work version. And I'll do a podcast on that. I've been working on how to set them up,

which is ideal. And what sort of skills and things you can put in for teachers.

But it's a working progress at the moment. I've been using it to just make videos of this one,

a little promotional videos for one of my other side projects. And it seems to do a pretty well

after a bit of tooling and frying. Anyway, getting back to co-work. This system allows,

this is a complete multiple step task, not just respond or single prompt. And this is what we

find in with a lot of the aio. We're getting these agents or multi-step prompts or instructions

actually going ahead. So I'm still doing lots of work at once. So in practice, that means things

like planning, drafting, checking, refining can actually now all happen in the single workflow.

Just not the single one prompt at a time as we did previously. So as educators that raises a question,

if the aio is already checked its own work, what does the student do within that context?

And I guess the risk of this is students may all treat this to outputs as final.

And we don't really want that. We want them to question everything that comes out of that. So once

again, we need to talk about how we assess and how we work with aio in that educational context,

even in a business context. I was listening to a report today about the number of lawyers that

using aio to produce things that have got errors, substantive, even spelling mistakes. Don't

make it spelling mistakes in aio, but maybe it's creating cases that it's guessing what the name

of the spelling is. Interesting. In fact, the lawyers actually get fined for that. So what a few

lawyers have had a few thousand dollar fines for using aio in their preparation and court submissions.

So it's quite interesting, especially when you look at Claude or Anthropic. Talked about their

release. A skills thing around law that they think they'll do most of the job of law workers,

but we've seen these errors come through because people aren't checking it properly.

Mine's because of that conversation about where we had their talk about the end of

head of the innovation center in W.I. Swimmer. Lawyers will now be checking what aio is generating

the work, but obviously that's not happening or maybe they're giving it to junior lawyers to actually

do the final checks before they do the submission or just trusting it. I don't know. Either way,

if you've got a lawyer that's doing that, you might want to get yourself a different lawyer.

Maybe it's not best practice. I guess he was a client need to find out.

Like I said, it hasn't made a lot of changes this week. What we once again see A.I. is moving

towards that collaborative, more autonomous, more embedded in our workload type of arrangements.

Agents have become really important. I need to do a podcast on that. But if you've got a teacher

out there who would like to come on, tell me how they're using agents, that would be fantastic

because the idea of building these complex systems to do the work for us is really

slowly moving towards, especially things like admin or their preparation planning going into it.

Till the next Monday, if you're on holidays like most WA and Australian teachers at the moment,

enjoy your break. If you're overseas, I think a lot of talking to my in-laws in the U.S.

I'm talking about they've got spring break coming up, but I know all states are very different

over there. So enjoy your break. Rest a recuperation. As my old principal used to say, it's actually

not a holiday. It's the ability to reset and rest. So anyway, till then, keep up the good work.

And I'll have a new episode for you on Wednesday. And I haven't worked out what I'm going to do yet.

I'm going to sit down and actually record it tomorrow. But I think it's, once again,

some practical skills you can take away news in the classroom. Till then, keep up the work.

Good work. Keep experimenting and look after yourself.