The AI Education Conversation

In 2024, is AI impacting college admissions and counseling? Emily Pacheco, Director of admissions at Loyola University Chicago and founder of the AI in College Admissions Special Interest Group, joins the conversation. Emily and I explore AI’s role in personal statements, AI’s equity implications in college access, AI’s current status across the college admissions landscape, and much more. Protect yourself in a world of AI. Free vulnerability scan with Symasis cybersecurity.

If individuals and organizations can leverage AI tools, so can bad actors who intend to use AI for harm. So how might bad actors try to use AI to threaten our schools and districts? What can be done to prevent or stop any cyber attacks? I talk with Jay Hochstetler, founder of Symasis, a cybersecurity firm providing affordable cybersecurity solutions for organizations. Jay has decades of experience in cybersecurity roles such as chief information security officer. Jay and I talk about the impact of AI on digital threats to schools, how threats have evolved over decades, and Jay was even gracious enough to run an OSINT assessment on me - which is basically a test cybersecurity firms can do to analyze what information is out in the digital world on you. Let’s just say I braced myself and was still surprised at what Jay found. FREE VULNERABILITY SCAN WITH SYMASIS FOBIZZ AI IMAGE COURSE SEE IF YOUR EMAIL INVOLVED IN ANY DATA BREACHES

As many schools, districts, and organizations decide how to kick off processes for exploring and adopting artificial intelligence, what key steps can they take to set the stage? I offer my top three in this AI Essentials. AI Literacy (CRPE study) AAP School Shootings Zeroeyes K12SIX incidence Concerns from District Tech Leaders Symasis #cybersecurity #ai #education

How will artificial intelligence impact human connection? I talk with Michelle Culver, who’s striving to build human connection in a world of AI by exploring our relationships with the emerging technology. Michelle is a lifelong educator and founder of The Rithm Project, which is focused on catalyzing spaces and thought leadership across generations and sectors to think deeply about the ways AI will reshape relationships. Michelle shares her perspectives on the types of AI-human relationships, how AI is currently impacting our schools/young people, how we schools might respond, cell phone bans, and much more. Michelle's article + framework #artificialintelligence #education #schools #chatgpt #relationships