AI and Education: Curated by Dr. Adam Porcella & Dr. Keith Plummer

This guide is a curated collection of thoughtful articles and books on artificial intelligence, providing the Cairn University community with resources to explore AI through a biblical understanding of humanity and a commitment to wisdom, discernment, and integrity.

Books & Articles on AI and Education

The selection of books and articles below are available through the Masland Library. 

ISBN: 9780825433122
Title: From the garden to the city : the place of technology in the story of God
Author: John Dyer
ISBN: 9780310357643
Title: The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Author: Thacker, Jason
Title: Transhumanism and the Image of God: Today's Technology and the Future of Christian Discipleship
Author: Shatzer, Jacob
Title: Are We All Cyborgs Now: Reclaiming Our Humanity from the Machine
Author: Robin Phillips & Joshua Pauling
Title: Artificial Intelligence: Discerning a Christian Response
Author: Schuurman, Derek C
Title: AI Doesn't Know What It's Doing
Author: Thomas Fowler

News & SubStack Articles on AI and Education

The selected articles below can be accessed without a subscription. 

Title: Some Things Need to Be Grown, Not Graded, and Definitely Not Automated
Author: Marc Watkins
Title: AI is The Technology Schools Never Asked For: How "Arrival Technologies" Reveal the Limits of Educational Planning
Author: Stephen Fitzpatrick
Title: When AI Idealism Meets Teenage Reality: How one student's account reveals the fundamental flaw in some AI policy frameworks
Author: Stephen Fitzpatrick
Title: Welcome to Campus. Here’s Your ChatGPT: OpenAI, the firm that helped spark chatbot cheating, wants to embed A.I. in every facet of college. First up: 460,000 students at Cal State
Author: Jamie Kelter Davis
Title: Google Just Changed Research Forever: What Does AI Search Mode Mean for Research?
Author: Stephen Fitzpatrick
Title: OpenAI CHATGPT: The New Crisis for Transactional Higher Education
Author: Adam Porcella

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