David Joyner on AI Avatars in Education: Transparency Matters

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Excited to share the first guest column on Class Central by David Joyner from Georgia Institute of Technology. David taught an entire course using his AI avatar. His key insight: each small convenience we add with AI tools, letting TAs post announcements, producers fix errors, chips away at student trust. His approach to transparency is practical: his avatar wears an AI bracelet (spelling "AI" in binary) that his daughter made, and only he can generate content with his digital twin. These are deliberate trust signals. As David puts it: "There's something about having it replicate the actual author's voice that draws students in. But there has to be trust that it really is replicating the author." You'll be seeing more from David on Class Central in the coming months. Stay tuned! AI Avatars in Education: The Transparency We Can’t Afford to Lose: https://lnkd.in/g9cGPrKF

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As a Highschool teacher, I love how we force students to no use AI, and maintain their cognitive growth but we use the AI to generate material for them. The students love to pick out bad videos, AI created pages and ask... "How can you use it but we cant". I go into the concept of "Learners" and "Teachers". Once you know a material, and you arent trying to grow your brain, fill free to use AI to assist you in tasks. But in some ways, this last year... has seen students not wanting to do material that was AI generated. They skipped the videos whose mouth and sound didnt match, content with emoji, lines and symbols that were obviously created by AI.

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