Teaching with AI Agents with Matthew Clemson, Isabelle Hesse, and Danny Liu
I've been assuming that most higher ed faculty will have access to an AI agent builder like Cogniti in the near future, so I reached out to some colleagues at Sydney who have been testing out Cogniti to see what they've learned. I thought Isabelle Hesse's use of Cogniti as an assignment coach was novel, and I appreciated Matt Clemson's comparison of his AI tutor bot as a better alternative to a Google search.
Danny Liu: 5:30
Yeah. We see Cogniti as a way for educators to take control of AI. It's a place where they can go and, in a very easy, people-friendly way, be able to build what we call AI agents, which are basically just AIs which can do something on your behalf. And you'll hear from Matthew and Isabelle today the different kinds of agents that they've worked with and designed themselves just using plain language. And for us, it's about giving educators that kind of control and visibility over what the AI is doing so that they can trust it and also so that students can trust it as well.