AI in Education: Game Introduction

• Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence applied to Education course, starting January 7.
• The instructor encourages an interactive class with questions and participation via chat or raising hands.
• Artificial intelligence (AI) and technology are advancing rapidly, while education is perceived as lagging.
• Educators should leverage new AI tools to enhance teaching as students have access to similar technology.

Game Introduction

• Participants are invited to play a game to differentiate between images created by AI vs. humans.
• The game is on Educaplay, a platform that allows creation of learning activities.
• Many participants found it challenging to distinguish AI-generated images from human-created ones in the game.
• AI is pervasive, being used in videos, audio, images, and text generation.

Defining AI

• AI mimics human intelligence to perform tasks like learning, reasoning, and self-correction.
• AI is a field of computer science focused on creating systems that can perform tasks that typically require human intelligence
• Such systems can learn, reason, plan, understand natural language, and perceive their environment
• The instructor uses the analogy of a "magic vault of knowledge" guarded by AI.
• AI provides personalized content, instant feedback, and accessible tools 24/7.

Functionality of AI

• AI learns through algorithms of machine learning.
• AI improves with user interaction by learning from positive or negative feedback.
• The application of learning algorithms can be observed in the way Netflix and Facebook curate content based on user preferences.
• Facebook's algorithm displays content that aligns with what the user interacts with the most.

Generative AI

• This AI generates original content like images, text, music, or audio.
• Examples of tools include Ideogram, Leonardo, Pexel (for images), ChatGPT and perplexity (for text).
• Fliqui is an example of an AI tool used for audio.

Introduction to Tools

• The curse will focus on text, image, audio, and video generation tools.

Introduction to Techi AI

• Peach, Tachi, Picsart and Can Academy are mentioned as AI-powered tools.
• Tachi is a tool to prepare class sessions, create AI content, create evaluations, and grade.
• Tachi offers both paid and free versions.

Overview of Techi's Features

• Generate a class plan using provided templates or create a full custom class
• Generate mind maps on topics by defining parameters for AI to work on
• Create a word search by defining the theme and setting key parameters
• Tachi can rewrite texts to a more creative or academic tone, offering a paraphrasing function
• Generates a variety of science lab experiments that can be used in class
• Grammar checker
• Create activities and lectures
• Dynamic classroom activities, defining a topic and setting parameters such as number of students
• Tachi provides tools for quick slide presentation generation, exam simulations, and automated PDF interaction.

ChatPDF Tool

• Chat PDF allows users to interact with PDF documents by asking questions and getting summaries or answers.
• Chat PDF can summarize the documents and key points
• Chat PDF can creates quizzes based on PDF content.
• ChatPDF functions by extracting relevant information from the PDF

Working With Techi

• Tachi can create learning sequences on set topics that define the topic of the class and key characteristics
• The tool generates learning objectives, material lists, and detailed activities to do during classes.
• Tachi also allows exporting the learning sequences in a word document.

Kit Draw

• Is a neural network that recognises the drawings of users
• Users are invited to play with key challenges to test the AI
• This can be used to practice drawing with the AI

Peach

• Generates presentations from prompts input by users
• Peach is mostly used at enterprise level, but can be adapted for personal solutions.