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Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning by Jose Antonio Bowen and C. Edward Watson.

Bowen holds a PhD from Stanford in musicology and humanities. Watson holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from Virginia Tech.

The general aim of the book is to address AI in education. Regrettably the book takes very broad brush stokes on a fast moving technology. As a result, they have missed an opportunity. It appears to many that a rush of books addressing AI in education has been underway since the introduction of ChatGPT.

Unfortunately the book misses key, critical requirements for AI integration into workflows, business thinking, and how practical strategies for faculty to leverage AI within the classroom.

The book is divided into three sections:
First, Thinking with AI is very much a basic AI 101 course with broad overviews to how work, literacy and creativity will be shaped by AI. Second, Teaching with AI is focusing on how AI will assist faculty but is not able to address how facutly at a private four year college would be for factuly teaching at a public two year college. Again, lots of broad brush strokes. Finally, Learning with AI is exploring the feedback and how AI can design assignments for students, how AI will change student writing and also assessments.

AI and the Future of Education: Teaching in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Priten Shah.

He holds an M.ED. in Education Policy and Management from the Harvard. Priten is CEO of Pedagogy.Cloud and founder of the civic-focused nonprofit United 4 Social Change.

Priten is addressing the impact of AI upon education in mid 2023. The date is important due to the weekly advances in the AI industry and a near frantic desire for teachers in K12 and Higher Education to understand the impact upon teaching.

Perhaps the challenge to all authors addressing AI’s impact across education is the need for educational systems to protect students while trying to understand the security and privacy impacts AI has upon schools that must meet those privacy mandates for children.

Then again, within the last six to eight months the AI Agents announced by OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft will certainly be viewed by teachers as a threat. It may surprise many that when teachers are requesting access to Microsoft CoPilot, they overlook this AI’s agent functions that will be available to them 24/7 for every class they are enrolled in and includes agent functions for academic support.