The Steady Course: Preparing for Tomorrow Without Retreating to Yesterday | Ep. 131

Matt and Liz unpack their 7th sold out conference takeaways and so much more this week!  First Up Matt sets up a hundred people at a math conference who split into cheaters, converts and whistleblowers, then reveals they are DeepMind agents that organized themselves that way. Cameron and Liz agree on which one Liz would be. DeepMind Put 100 AI Agents in a Room and They Sorted Into Cheaters, Converts, and Whistleblowers: https://tinyurl.com/48n37925  The Rundown Twin Pics Twin Pics AI Game: Reverse-Engineering Image Prompts: https://tinyurl.com/2jdsx5ck  Gems Become Skills Gemini Gems to Skills Transition Guide: https://tinyurl.com/mr2p6u49  TeachFX Joins McGraw Hill McGraw Hill Acquires TeachFX, Expanding Commitment to Great Teaching with AI Coaching Tool Designed by Educators: https://tinyurl.com/smctsype  Project Cafe - The Urban Assembly: https://tinyurl.com/bma2mepy  Tavus's Griffin Tavus Griffin: Realistic AI Video Bot: https://tinyurl.com/ytvbzm5r  Inside Alpha School's Bootcamp Inside Alpha School's Bootcamp: Heart Monitors, Unpaid Labor, Many, Many Tweets: https://tinyurl.com/tjy2xzek  A Flight Simulator for Teachers UW-Whitewater Education Majors Use AI to Teach Math: https://tinyurl.com/2ajbzbzb  Morgan State's AI Campus Morgan State University and Google Public Sector to Build Next-Generation AI Campus: https://tinyurl.com/muh69sen   From the ChatEDU Community ● Rooted Forward (An Nguyen): https://tinyurl.com/mr6p6n88  ● STEMBox (An Nguyen): https://tinyurl.com/3k3byb5a  Beneath the Surface Matt and Liz rebuild the two keynotes from the October 2nd Fall AI Conference. Matt's Pace or Pause frame sorts the week's news into what schools should slow down and what they should amplify, and Jonathan's case against sledgehammer bans argues you cannot step into the same stream twice. ChatEDU Ep. 130, on Meta's Muse: https://tinyurl.com/y5aamzj9  Muse privacy failure - Meta's Muse AI agent shared someone's address without their permission: https://tinyurl.com/jpybd5p4  The Daily on Meta's Muse: https://tinyurl.com/3rd2nmuc  US datacenter discharged large amounts of pollution for almost a year with no permits: https://bit.ly/4yDweFt  How to be an AI minimalist: https://tinyurl.com/52nxjrey  AI4MiddleSchools expands nationwide effort to prepare students for an AI-powered future: https://tinyurl.com/3jv2a39e  The Digital Delusion (Jared Cooney Horvath): https://tinyurl.com/5bwfkt5d  Restoring Childhood (Peter Gray): https://tinyurl.com/2fkazvn2  Bright Byte Anthropic stood up a wet lab and pointed roughly 950 Claude agents at 200,000 reverse transcriptase enzymes for 21 hours. They surfaced a previously uncharacterized bacteriophage system, with human scientists running every bench experiment. Claude discovers a novel enzyme system: https://tinyurl.com/2khcu2vs  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