Learning Futures
Selects: AI in Education with Chris Dede (S5E4)
Episode Summary
Summer Vibes rolls on... For this episode, Jake has selected a recent conversation on AI in Education with Chris Dede – Senior Research Fellow from Harvard’s Graduate School of Education.
Episode Notes
This Selects episode was originally published on March 28, 2023.
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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).
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.