The Steady Course: Preparing for Tomorrow Without Retreating to Yesterday | Ep. 131

Matt and Liz unpack their 7th sold out conference takeaways and so much more this week! 

First Up

Matt sets up a hundred people at a math conference who split into cheaters, converts and whistleblowers, then reveals they are DeepMind agents that organized themselves that way. Cameron and Liz agree on which one Liz would be.

• DeepMind Put 100 AI Agents in a Room and They Sorted Into Cheaters, Converts, and Whistleblowers: https://tinyurl.com/48n37925 

The Rundown

Twin Pics

• Twin Pics AI Game: Reverse-Engineering Image Prompts: https://tinyurl.com/2jdsx5ck 

Gems Become Skills

• Gemini Gems to Skills Transition Guide: https://tinyurl.com/mr2p6u49 

TeachFX Joins McGraw Hill

• McGraw Hill Acquires TeachFX, Expanding Commitment to Great Teaching with AI Coaching Tool Designed by Educators: https://tinyurl.com/smctsype 

• Project Cafe - The Urban Assembly: https://tinyurl.com/bma2mepy 

Tavus's Griffin

• Tavus Griffin: Realistic AI Video Bot: https://tinyurl.com/ytvbzm5r 

Inside Alpha School's Bootcamp

• Inside Alpha School's Bootcamp: Heart Monitors, Unpaid Labor, Many, Many Tweets: https://tinyurl.com/tjy2xzek 

A Flight Simulator for Teachers

• UW-Whitewater Education Majors Use AI to Teach Math: https://tinyurl.com/2ajbzbzb 

Morgan State's AI Campus

• Morgan State University and Google Public Sector to Build Next-Generation AI Campus: https://tinyurl.com/muh69sen  

From the ChatEDU Community

● Rooted Forward (An Nguyen): https://tinyurl.com/mr6p6n88 

● STEMBox (An Nguyen): https://tinyurl.com/3k3byb5a 

Beneath the Surface

Matt and Liz rebuild the two keynotes from the October 2nd Fall AI Conference. Matt's Pace or Pause frame sorts the week's news into what schools should slow down and what they should amplify, and Jonathan's case against sledgehammer bans argues you cannot step into the same stream twice.

• ChatEDU Ep. 130, on Meta's Muse: https://tinyurl.com/y5aamzj9 

• Muse privacy failure - Meta's Muse AI agent shared someone's address without their permission: https://tinyurl.com/jpybd5p4 

• The Daily on Meta's Muse: https://tinyurl.com/3rd2nmuc 

• US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits: https://bit.ly/4yDweFt 

• How to be an AI minimalist: https://tinyurl.com/52nxjrey 

• AI4MiddleSchools expands nationwide effort to prepare students for an AI-powered future: https://tinyurl.com/3jv2a39e 

• The Digital Delusion (Jared Cooney Horvath): https://tinyurl.com/5bwfkt5d 

• Restoring Childhood (Peter Gray): https://tinyurl.com/2fkazvn2 

Bright Byte

Anthropic stood up a wet lab and pointed roughly 950 Claude agents at 200,000 reverse transcriptase enzymes for 21 hours. They surfaced a previously uncharacterized bacteriophage system, with human scientists running every bench experiment.

• Claude discovers a novel enzyme system: https://tinyurl.com/2khcu2vs 

Announcements

• Register for our Winter Microcredential and upcoming AI events: https://tinyurl.com/43jwkwyp

• Purchase Learning They'll Love - Dr. Elizabeth Radday on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/22t9hz77

• Check out our middle / high school Student AI Literacy course: www.skills21.org/ai/learnai

• Explore Skills21’s FREE social media literacy curriculum: https://www.skills21.org/social

• Address Screen Time concerns: skills21.org/ai/screenshift

• Read From Panic to Proof: A Data-Driven Approach to Screen Time (ASCD Educational Leadership): https://tinyurl.com/4pwdu68

Sponsor

The National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing: Bridging Education and Industry to Build Tomorrow’s Technical Workforce-https://www.nextgenmfg.org