AI in Education: Friend or Foe? A Student Perspective #AILiteracyDay

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Today is AI Literacy Day, Friday, March 28, 2025. So, as my part in celebrating this day, I thought the best people to speak about this topic is my students. So, I issued a call to my AP students and two of them showed up this past Tuesday and we recorded this show. I think that their honest, intelligent, reflective thoughts of the issue of their generation and their concerns and hopes for the future where my students share:

• How teachers can respond in healthy, helpful ways
• How they really use AI in the classroom
• What AI gets wrong — and how to spot it
• Whether AI detection tools work (or not)
• Why understanding AI is a national security issue
• The ethical dilemmas students face every day

If you didn’t want to talk to your students about Artificial Intelligence, you will after this show.

I’m going to watch this with my other classes to start the conversation. The boldness and honesty shines through and I know I’m biased, but I’m just so, so proud of them! Way to go Will and Lucy. Thanks for speaking out!

Also, I’ll share how I used AI to edit the show and create graphics below the show content.

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How I used AI to edit the show and create graphics

So, as part of AI Literacy Day, I’m going to share all of the ways I used AI in the development, production, and publication of this podcast episode.

Graphic: ChatGPT 4.5

As a note, I developed the Podcast graphic with the new ChatGPT 4.5 Graphic generator (before I ran out of credits – will be writing on that soon!) ChatGPT 4.5 graphics were released this past Wednesday, March 26, 2025. This is one of the most exciting things.

Title: Headline Analyzer

I use Coschedule and Yoast to help me with feedback as I develop titles, so I’ve been using this a long time. I create options and also generate a few on ChatGPT. (Today I used 4.5 but I created a project for this activity trained on how I like to write titles but I’m pretty sure it uses an older version so I wanted to try the newer one.)

Introduction: Eleven Labs

I also used ElevenLabs and their AI voice for my intro. You can sign up free and use credits to generate what you type into it.

Recording, Camera Selection, Editing with Text to Video

I used Riverside to record, which has text editing (a feature that is AI-based, although I made every edit – you just edit the text and it makes the cuts in the video for me. Riverside AI also determined which camera shot would be featured, and I made a few tweaks to that.)

Spell Check

I used Grammarly for Spell check but not for any AI rewrites. Just commas. (I’m terrible at them. Mrs. Caldwell tried, she really did.)

This Blog Post

I wrote it myself while looking at a summary from Riverside and my own personal handwritten notes.

Thumbnail for Blog Post

I used Canva. I’m out of GPT 4.5 Photo Credits.

AI Transcription

Apple’s AI transcription is better than I can do. So, now, if people want a transcript, I refer them to the show on Apple Podcasts, you can click and copy the transcript and read it there. It just happens behind the scenes and I don’t check it.

Tags for YouTube

I use VidIQ to help me with my YouTube videos. I’m not sure if I’m going to keep this service as I’ve been testing it for about a month. I type in 5 tags I think I should use, and it suggests others based on popularity.

Opus Clip

I am also testing Opus Clip for short-form video content, something people consume a lot of these days. I will import the YouTube link, and it will make suggested clips, apply the captions, and my logo. It is a time saver, although I’m still unsure if I like it. Riverside can also generate these, but Opus Clip does auto-scheduling for them.

My Testing

I usually test 1-2 new tools a month. I have a little budget for monthly payment (not annual) to see what I think. So, right now as part of my “innovate like a turtle” strategy, Vidiq and Opus Clip are part of my turtle time as I’m learning. I haven’t decided to recommend them or not.

Why Use AI?

So, through the use of AI, I could produce this show in a couple of hours instead of at least 10 or more while still making all of the decisions on edits and content.

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