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Generative AI is the cheapest, easiest way to cheat ever invented, and the vast majority of students are using it. In a recent survey of 1,000 college-age students, more than 89 percent of respondents said that ChatGPT has helped them complete a homework assignment. What can schools and universities do?

The processes of reading, research and writing are complex and intertwined. Currently, the larger educational technology landscape requires using multiple tools to do these processes. Being able to pull them into a single tool can allow learners to focus on learning and streamlining processes.

A short summary of the PowerNotes AI Unity Initiative as reported on by Aaron Gifford of GovTech.

In this interview, Wilson Tsu, founder of PowerNotes, shares his journey and discusses how PowerNotes is transforming academic research and writing.

Learn about the AI Unity Initiative and how it serves as a collaborative platform for teachers to explore, experiment, and understand AI's applications in teaching.

In the first article in this series, we discussed what AI is and how it works generally. In part two, we discussed how PowerNotes helps teachers and students realize the opportunity that AI provides to enhance teaching and learning. In this article, we’ll cover how PowerNotes mitigates the dangers of AI. 

The educational opportunity in AI is to help students realize these benefits without outsourcing their thinking and learning to a machine. PowerNotes’ platform can help students and educators achieve these goals by improving the student learning process with AI as an learning aide, not a learning replacement.

In this interview on the show floor at ISTE 2023 in Philly, PowerNotes founder Wilson Tsu expands on how PowerNotes integrates reading, research, and writing, using AI to aid in student organization and synthesis. It dives into how we're providing educators visibility into the learning process, maximizing the benefits of AI while minimizing drawbacks, including cheating.

In this episode of Innovations in Education, Wilson Tsu, founder of PowerNotes, talks about how AI is being baked into PowerNotes and other platforms to transform the ways students perform research—and how the rise of AI has re-invented the role of libraries and librarians.

Welcome to a research revolution with Discovery and Brainstorm, PowerNotes' new AI tools designed to optimize information gathering and synthesis. Discover what makes these game-changing features here.

With the release of ChatGPT, the educational landscape has changed. All of the students I’ve spoken to are using it. Industry is integrating it into their workflows. It isn’t going anywhere and it’s only going to get better and more ubiquitous. This article is the summation of all of my thoughts on AI and it's potential role in the future of education.

I’ll walk you through how I used an AI writing tool to generate feedback and a score for 4 assignments for some of my online students.