Learning Futures

AI in Education with Chris Dede

Episode Summary

In this episode Punya has an opportunity to sit down with Senior Research Fellow from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Dr. Chris Dede and talk about AI and education.

Episode Notes

In this episode Punya and Sean discuss some of the highlights captured in a recent interview with Senior Research Fellow from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education Dr. Chris Dede and talk about AI and education.

Guest Information: 

Dr. Chris Dede

Chris Dede is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education (GSE) who has worked with AI since the 1970s. A former Timothy E. Wirth Professor of Learning Technologies at Harvard GSE, Dede is a Co-Principal Investigator of the NSF-funded National Artificial Intelligence Institute in Adult Learning and Online Education (AI-ALOE).

• More information on Dr. Chris Dede - visit his Wikipedia page.
• National AI Institute for Adult Learning and Online Education - https://aialoe.org
• LinkedIn
• Twitter @chrs_dede
• Silver Lining for Learning - https://silverliningforlearning.org

Dr. Melissa Warr

Melissa Warr, a graduate of ASU’s Learning, Literacies, and Technologies PhD program, is an Assistant Professor of Learning Technology and Education Design at New Mexico State University.

Links from the conversation: 

• Learning Futures Collaborative: Future of AI in Education & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
• Chiang, Ted. (2023, February). ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web. The New Yorker. 
• Hofstadter, Douglas R. (1979). Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Basic Books. [openlibrary.org link]
• Weizenbaum, Joseph. (1966). ELIZA—a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine. Communications of the ACM, 9(1), 36-45. [pdf link]
• Dreyfus, Hubert (1972). What Computers Can’t Do. New York: MIT Press. [archive.org link]
• Chinese room argument: Searle, John (1980). Minds, Brains, and Programs. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy link]
• Quandary Game
• Cicero, Facebook’s A.I. “Diplomacy” game
• DALL-E 2, AI art platform
• Dieterle, E., Dede, C. & Walker, M. The cyclical ethical effects of using artificial intelligence in education. AI & Soc (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-022-01497-w
• Ashok Goel’s AI “Jill Watson”, Georgia Tech University [TEDx Talk link]
• Mursion, workforce immersive learning
• Ethan Mollick’s substack, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

The Learning Futures Podcast is jointly produced by Enterprise Technology and the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.