Librarians at the Center, the Unsung Leaders of School AI | Ep. 115

In this episode of ChatEDU, Librarians at the Center, the Unsung Leaders of School AI, Matt and Liz open with a wild legal story out of Mississippi, where a federal judge canceled a trial and disqualified all four lawyers after attorneys on both sides were caught using generative AI that cited fabricated court cases. The Rundown Matt and Liz celebrate the regional winners at the White House, including educator Anne Win and her AP Biology students' AI work. A free new resource using real-world AI scenarios and the SEE framework to help families and educators navigate AI in education. Google partners with ISTE and ASCD to launch free, self-paced micro-credentials for teachers, including intro courses on Gemini, NotebookLM, and vibe coding. Meta launches a $115M academy to train local workers in data center construction, alongside a similar $50M Google program. OpenAI selects 26 university innovators for its inaugural cohort, giving them model access and $10,000 grants to build solutions from disaster detection to audio learning games. The hosts look at Google's experimental "Dream Beans" photo feed, "momfluencers" pitching ChatGPT as a co-parent, and Hasbro's AI Mr. Potato Head. Google's CEO delivers a Stanford commencement address avoiding AI entirely, following recent graduation walkouts and protests. A recent Wired investigation finds that Elon Musk's Grok still generates non-consensual explicit deepfakes of prominent women. Anthropic complies with US government regulations by blocking access to its Mythos and Fable models for non-Americans and foreign employees within the country. While NAEP showed slight literacy gains for nine-year-olds, an Axios report highlights millions of low-literacy adult workers using AI to mask reading and writing gaps. The Beneath the Surface Matt and Liz dig into the Genesee Valley BOCES "Teaching About AI" report, which lays out eight provocations and argues that librarians are the most vital leaders for district-wide AI integration. The Bright Byte Mayo Clinic researchers have validated an AI model that scans routine CT scans to flag pancreatic cancer up to three years before diagnosis, roughly doubling specialists' early-detection rate. Announcements Purchase Learning They'll Love - Dr. Elizabeth Radday Amazon - https://tinyurl.com/22t9hz77 Seeing through the Machine – Teaching Bias as an Equity Practice in AI - Dr. Elizabeth Radday - https://tinyurl.com/4ybwkn7a 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-balance⁠⁠⁠ Address Screen Time concerns - ⁠skills21.org/ai/screenshift⁠ Links Presidential AI Challenge Champions https://tinyurl.com/yt55wrju SEE GenAI Literacy Snapshot https://tinyurl.com/yt2fxr3r Google AI Educator Series on Teaching with AI https://tinyurl.com/2pzdfse2 Meta launches $115 million data center job guarantee https://tinyurl.com/3wrv43me Growing the next generation of American workers https://tinyurl.com/ytbp7jn5 OpenAI names first ChatGPT Futures class to back student AI projects https://tinyurl.com/mpb6amc4 Momfluencers Are Pitching AI as a Better ‘Coparent’ Than Men https://tinyurl.com/36dzrmyc Hasbro to license AI versions of Mr. Potato Head https://tinyurl.com/2x27mz3m Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act https://tinyurl.com/mupadpn9 Google CEO skips AI in Stanford commencement address https://tinyurl.com/4746h6re Grok Is Still Hosting Sexualized Deepfakes https://tinyurl.com/mttanc48 Students show gains in reading and math https://tinyurl.com/yrwc4vj5 AI is masking America's "post-literate" workforce https://tinyurl.com/jt2ke2ej Teaching About AI: A Report for the K-12 Field https://tinyurl.com/zfkthmzu Mayo Clinic AI detects cancer 3 years before diagnosis https://tinyurl.com/5dpbk4bt