Jake Oxner

@AlexanderFYoung I'd love to see that! Especially for my kids who struggle with executive functioning or ADHD. Sometimes having that extra scaffolding for note taking and breaking down information into bite size chunks is just what they need! Almost like a personal assistant in class.

@Jake_Oxner All ages, a big update end of this week is incoming too that builds on notebook lm features

NotebookLM is cool. But I built something that's truly useful. Meet Shiken AI: it turns your docs, notes, and links into interactive quizzes, flashcards, voice roleplays, and full courses in seconds. Here’s how it works:

I’m experimenting with different AI tools in my high school ELA classroom and sharing what actually works, and what doesn’t. If you’re on the fence about AI in education or just looking for practical starting points, I’ll be posting my classroom findings as I go.

My first success was in my poetry unit. Getting high schoolers to buy into poetry can be a challenge. After reading some poems by Emily Dickinson, I had ChatGPT reword them into modern slang. It was easier for them to understand and get the message. Lots of fun and engagement!

@VadimStrizheus I just realized that I could have it research things for me and report into me at scheduled times! Super cool idea. Have you made any money off of it yet? Because something like this could definitely be a game changer.

I have 7 AI employees now. They research while I sleep. They code while I eat. They design while I work out. I’m 18 with an entire AI company. The future is here. 🤩

@Austen Question: so far I've been seeing this for elementary school students but how do you feel it would work with secondary education kids like high school. Do you think it would be just as beneficial or do you think they really need the human interaction as well?

Fourth Grader came in and the software actually identified some pretty material gaps she had in her knowledge. Probably our fault: she's been our education guinea pig, and going to Alpha next year will be the first time she's gone back to the same school a second year. She caught up in reading, but is only 91% of the way through 3rd grade Math. Luckily she's moving at a much faster pace than she otherwise would, so we expect her to get caught up pretty early next year. (Her test results aren't back yet.)

Tomorrow wraps up the first 5 months of my kids attending the school where all of the learning is powered by AI (and no teachers). I get asked almost every day what the experience is like. In short: it's truly wild. Here's what it's like overall:

@Austen This is really interesting because a lot of education is tailored towards preparing kids for college. Some of my students want to go to college but some kids want to take over family businesses and so on. I think an adaptive learning environment would be really cool to see!

So what about the academics? This has been fascinating. The learning is so personalized and adaptive it's been a totally different experience for each of my kids. The learning itself is done in two hours/day using various apps that monitor your kids and how they learn and adapt to them. Kids are tested regularly to compare to other students across the country, and everything maps back to common core.

@Austen I'm really curious to see how this works! Especially when they get out in the workforce to see if there's a shift in dynamics or mentality. I'm going to follow because I want to see the progress!

@miket136 The problem is for every way they find out how to detect AI, the students find five more ways to get around it. I'm attempting to help deter by showing them how to use it as a tool instead of a cheat code. It won't work with all of them by any means, but maybe some.

AI is the death of education and academia. My grade 9 son says more than half of his peers use AI to write their assignments, then run them through “humanizer” apps to make it undetectable. These kids have 90%+ grades on essays and projects and then barely pass exams. Detecting AI content becomes a full time technical job, and what teachers or profs are going to commit to that? Schools are just going through the motions.

@baejello To be fair though people probably said the same thing when the internet came out. I think if kids use it to replace their thinking then yes it's going to be a major problem but if we can teach them to use it as a support tool to assist their thinking instead of replace it.

I'm glad ai didn't exist when I was in school I can't imagine the level of brain damage kids nowadays will grow up with

@emollick I'm really curious the long-term effects this is going to have because if students get used to using it kind of like a on-call tutor that can tailor to their specific needs, then they won't be stuck learning it with one or two methods.

AI can help learning... when it isn't a crutch. There are now multiple controlled experiments showing that students who use AI to get answers to problems hurts learning (even though they think they are learning), but that students who use AI as a tutor perform better on tests.

@BryanTalebi3D @futurism AI has definitely changed the game for schools just as the internet did back in the '90s. The important thing is teaching the kids how to use it as a tool instead of a cheat code. It should always be used to assist in thinking and not replace it.

AI replacing teachers? 🤔 A high school in London, UK, will let students around 15 years old use AI tools to prepare for standardized exams next year, reports @Futurism. Could this change how we learn forever, or are we putting too much trust in technology? What do you think? buff.ly/3WOPeyX

@ASI_Alliance AI can be a great tutor because the students can tailor it to their own style of learning and even have it break it down further if needed. I've been showing students how to use it as a support tool instead of a cheat code.

Schools around the world are experimenting with AI tutors, adaptive learning modules, and automated grading systems. Is this the dawn of personalized education or a step toward isolating students behind screens? 1/5

@ClassicLearner As cool of a tool as it is in the classroom, it does also have some very real risks. I think they let it out of the box so quickly with no real limitations that people didn't have time to adapt before it was already being used by students.

AI is turning schools into an Orwellian hell hole that even George Orwell himself could have never imagined. Schools are using AI programs to create behavioral and emotional profiles of students - and they’re using facial recognition software to do it. They are then using that data to implement SEL - —Social Emotional Learning— that can be used to manipulate the emotions of children to condition them to accept certain teachings and agendas. AI is not the future of education… It’s the future of indoctrination.

@kimmonismus I wonder if secondary schools could use it and taylor lessons to what kind of education the student is going to go into from high school such as trade school or university etc. students buy into education when it relates to what they want to do.

The future is here. „AI schools“ score in the top 1-2% of the best schools nationally.

@XueJia24682 This is an interesting concept because when it comes to basic grammar or sentence structure errors especially for secondary education, it would save educators time and let us focus on higher quality lessons and in-depth feedback about the content of their work

✨🇨🇳Many schools in China use AI systems to grade homework. These systems scan, grade, print annotated homework, saving teachers time for targeted tutoring and accurately identifying students' weak points. They’re good teaching partners, not replacements.