Union-Powered AI: PD Meets Big Tech

This episode of the AI and Education podcast, hosted by a single speaker due to Dan's absence, focuses on AI-related news and research, particularly within the education sector. The speaker discusses a Walton Foundation/Gallup survey highlighting teachers' time savings using AI and the uneven adoption of AI policies in schools. The episode covers Google's Gemini for Education announcement at the ISTE conference and the U.S. EDAI pledge, which aims to provide AI education resources but is criticized for being too tech-centric. Announcements from AFT, Microsoft Elevate, and the AI Economy Institute are also reviewed. The episode concludes with research on the ineffectiveness of AI text detectors and a study on students' perceptions of AI-generated feedback compared to teacher feedback.