Educator Agents You Can Trust | Ep. 133

A school district gave staff their own AI agents, living inside Google Chat. Its CIO on the guardrails, and why he made none of it mandatory.  First Up Matt pitches Meta's Muse using a WIRED piece about a reporter’s NSFW chat with the agent without policy violations, but Liz isn't convinced. Gemini Pro also got another redesign. Meta Says That's Totally Fine: https://tinyurl.com/yhetjccj  Gemini pro redesign: Scheduled Actions and Tasks, formerly Spark:https://tinyurl.com/yk9nzwtp   The Rundown Listener Mailbag Listener call-in: Rabbi Tzvi Pittinsky on the "blip" (voice memo)  Ebb and the Riptide Beach, Rob Wilson's cybersecurity escape room (Goodwin University): https://tinyurl.com/2assvftk  Prompt Craft Andrej Karpathy's New suggestion - Ask AI output in ASD-STE100 format and not in Text format: https://tinyurl.com/bddm4bcz  Live Voice Chat: the mic button in the Gemini Notebook app: https://tinyurl.com/2hh4x7ku  Audio recorder: the record button in the Gemini Notebook app: https://tinyurl.com/bdhx5huu  Google releases a new local-first Granola competitor: https://tinyurl.com/59naxfxc  School Rules Fairfax Co. rolls out Google AI blocker on school-issued laptops: https://tinyurl.com/5798dvrf  ChatEDU Ep. 132, on Common Sense Media's unacceptable risk ratings: https://tinyurl.com/53he8xpn  Attorney General Brenna Bird Announces Lawsuit against OpenAI for Deceiving Iowa Parents and Iowans: https://tinyurl.com/8e5s9x2x  Work and Words 4 seats AI can occupy at the negotiating table: https://tinyurl.com/yc8kks7z  Book Publishers Are Quietly Using More AI. Staff Are Revolting: https://tinyurl.com/m52pv5vu Setting Ed Tech and AI Policy for Young Children: https://tinyurl.com/4dy929d3  Oklahoma AI Family Guide for K-2 Parents: https://tinyurl.com/ykbuphj8  Miami Dade Miami Dade College Pairs AI Students With Companies: https://tinyurl.com/2p9um3ep  Creator's Corner Peninsula School District CIO Kris Hagel highlights AWS-powered, zero-retention Google Chat AI agents. With role-based data protections and artifact publishing via "Atrium," 240 staff voluntarily adopted them in a month, streamlining budget reporting and creating tools like chemistry mahjong. Peninsula School District AI resources: https://tinyurl.com/yvsjj2sx   Bridging Innovation & Implementation (Kris Hagel): https://tinyurl.com/yc5fw975 Kris Hagel LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/4t9th69c   Bright Byte Researchers validated EpiScreen, an AI analyzing clinical notes to distinguish epilepsy from psychogenic non-epileptic seizures.  AI Helps Neurologists Distinguish Epilepsy From Functional Seizures: https://tinyurl.com/324pn77n  Announcements Register for our Winter Microcredential and upcoming AI events: https://tinyurl.com/43jwkwyp Purchase Learning They'll Love - Dr. Elizabeth Radday on Amazon: https://tinyurl.com/22t9hz77 Check out our middle / high school Student AI Literacy course: www.skills21.org/ai/learnai Explore Skills21’s FREE social media literacy curriculum: https://www.skills21.org/social Address Screen Time concerns: skills21.org/ai/screenshift Read From Panic to Proof: A Data-Driven Approach to Screen Time (ASCD Educational Leadership): https://tinyurl.com/4pwdu68 Sponsor The National Center for Next Generation Manufacturing: Bridging Education and Industry to Build Tomorrow’s Technical Workforce - https://www.nextgenmfg.org Registration Link: https://forms.gle/LeVh9FubGVY6BNuJ6. To learn more about the NCNGM, visit www.nextgenmfg.org