AI’s impact on academic integrity — Matt Genovese // Planorama Design
- Part 1 AI’s impact on academic integrity — Matt Genovese // Planorama Design
- Part 2The future of textbooks — Matt Genovese // Planorama Design
Show Notes
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01:21The evolution of textbooks with AI technologyTextbook digitization introduced keyword searches for faster access to information. Generative AI goes beyond keyword searches, enabling users to ask textbooks questions and get responses AI sourced from the textbook's information.
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03:06Use cases of generative AI in textbooksIn this context, generative AI acts as an expert or virtual tutor, capable of providing answers to questions, summarizing content, and generating quizzes based on various textbooks. This technology enables students to learn the material in a way that makes sense to them.
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05:34The challenges of generative AI in educationFrom K-12 to the university level, generative AI can be used for textbooks across various education levels. Despite the ability to run PDFs or documents through AI to ask questions, the challenge lies in where the AI is getting the information from.
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06:22Generative AI and academic integrityGenerative AI raises concerns about academic integrity as students may use it to cheat. However, it's about understanding its broader impact, adapting teaching methods to deter cheating, and focusing on how it enhances learning.
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08:30Minimizing errors in AI generated responsesTraining the AI model on course-related information is the starting point, but infrastructure is needed to minimize hallucinations. Measures such as using the same AI to verify its responses and asking AI to explain its answers, reduce the likelihood of errors in generated responses.
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12:01Enhancing AI responses with checks and citationsChecking the AI responses before presenting them to students improves accuracy. Additionally, having the model provide citations from the source text enhances learning by guiding students back to the original material.
Quotes
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"Generative AI allows you to completely change the way that you interact with your textbook. It's not just keyword searches, but being able to ask questions of your textbook and have the AI respond from that text." - Matt Genovese
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"With generative AI, you have to look at it from a larger perspective. What is it enabling? What is it allowing you to do? And, how can you adjust yourself as a teacher to help students not to feel the need to cheat?" - Matt Genovese
- Part 1 AI’s impact on academic integrity — Matt Genovese // Planorama Design
- Part 2The future of textbooks — Matt Genovese // Planorama Design
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Part 1AI’s impact on academic integrity — Matt Genovese // Planorama Design
Matt Genovese, CEO of Planorama Design, delves into AI and the future of textbooks. Digitization revolutionized textbooks, and generative AI elevates this advancement, enabling users to interact with textbooks in an entirely different manner. While there's an unavoidable discussion about students exploiting this tool to cheat, educators must adapt their strategies to ensure that AI integration enhances learning rather than facilitating academic dishonesty. Today, Matt discusses AI's impact on academic integrity.
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Part 2The future of textbooks — Matt Genovese // Planorama Design
Matt Genovese, CEO of Planorama Design, delves into AI and the future of textbooks. While educators have mixed views on incorporating AI in classrooms and textbooks, students have already adopted the technology. Consequently, educators, schools, and publishers must adapt to the changing landscape to meet the evolving needs of students and education. Today, Matt discusses the future of textbooks.
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