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I Learned It From Watching You! Slide text

Jon Fila, Founder and AI Strategist, Inclusive AI Strategies. Every slide’s text and a description of each animation.

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I Learned It From Watching You!

Image: Inclusive AI Strategies logo

Animation: A paved walkway turns a corner, and a worn dirt path cuts across the grass. An adult’s footprints appear one at a time along the dirt path, left, right, left, then a child’s smaller yellow footprints follow, stepping inside the adult’s prints. The walk repeats every few seconds while the slide is up.

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You should just…

Image: decorative illustration of a head in silhouette with a lit light bulb and sketches of charts and gears around it.

Animation: Like live captions, the words of the first line appear one at a time when the slide opens; each follow-up line appears the same way on its click.

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Desire path

Image: A paved campus sidewalk curves away while a worn dirt path cuts straight across the grass between two walkways. A rental scooter stands at the edge of the pavement.

Animation: The photo eases from slightly zoomed in to full frame.

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Two ways to respond to a desire path

Image: In a park, a desire path beside the official walkway has been roped off with orange flagging and replanted with new turf.

Image: On a street corner in Delft, a gravel path follows the curve people walked across the grass, edged like an official walkway.

Animation: The second photo, “Pave it,” rises in on the next step.

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Detection will always be bypassed

Animation: The 2023 line appears, then the two Pangram cards rise in together, then the light-editing card.

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In 2023, detectors flagged essays by non-native English writers

Animation: Ninety-one hollow circles, one per essay. On the first step, 89 of them fill in one after another; two stay hollow. The text blocks then rise in one at a time, and the 2025 finding comes last.

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We must teach about AI

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Sycophancy is a persistent trait of AI assistants

Animation: The 2023 quote, then the 2026 finding, rise in.

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What people rewarded when they rated AI answers

Chart: 23 features of AI answers, ranked by how strongly each predicted that people preferred the answer, from most to least (Funny is the only one below 50%):

  1. Matches user’s beliefs
  2. Authoritative
  3. Empathetic
  4. Relevant to user’s query
  5. Truthful
  6. Engaging
  7. Persuasive
  8. Matches user’s style
  9. Higher reading age
  10. Well-written
  11. Grammatically sound
  12. Logically sound
  13. Informative
  14. Rigorous
  15. Well-structured
  16. Friendly
  17. Entertaining
  18. Better evidentially supported
  19. Motivating
  20. Polite
  21. Concise
  22. Optimistic
  23. Funny

Animation: The dots start on the 50% line and move to their places, top row first. On the next click, the top row, “Matches user’s beliefs,” turns yellow with a brown dot and a “Ranked first” label, and the explanation rises in.

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Three sycophancy habits, still in current models

Animation: The three cards rise in one at a time.

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AI tells students what they want to hear

Animation: The three findings, then the quote, appear one at a time.

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Name where AI fits in every assignment

Animation: The three bands rise in one at a time.

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Appropriate use and “Show Your Receipts”

Animation: The three steps appear together, then the policy box slides in, then the link to sample policy language.

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Hallmarks of LLM responses

Animation: The six flags appear together, then the “See what it says” panel slides in.

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Three rows from the AI Writing Flags Rubric

Animation: The three rubric rows rise in one at a time.

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Using the rubric alongside your content criteria

Animation: The two cards rise in one at a time.

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Assign value to the process

Animation: The cards appear in three groups.

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What “show me” looks like

Animation: The two columns, then the closing line, rise in.

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What teachers hear

Animation: The two speech bubbles rise in one at a time.

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Why these conversations are harder online

Animation: The five challenges rise in one at a time.

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Catching vs. coaching

Animation: The catching panel rises in, then the coaching panel; on the last step both “What happens next” sections appear and a yellow outline lights up around the coaching panel.

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“I noticed…”

Animation: A text cursor blinks after the quote; the last line rises in.

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The graduated response

Animation: Each step rises in while a yellow line fills the track from one step to the next.

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Shift the burden of proof

Animation: The old model, the new model, then the quote rise in.

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The coaching stance at scale

Animation: A row of 48 small message icons drops in; then the three systems rise in one at a time.

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Tell families before there’s a problem

Animation: The sample message rises in.

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Writing to a family about a concern

Animation: The Do column, then the Don’t column, rise in.

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When a parent pushes back

Animation: The four steps rise in one at a time.

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Connection before correction

Animation: The four strategies rise in one at a time.

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Reframing the message

Animation: One click starts an automatic sequence, one row at a time: the original phrase appears in plain text, a line strikes through it, then the “Try” version slides in beside it, and the next row begins. With motion off, all four pairs appear at once.

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Your communication toolkit

Animation: The six principles appear in two groups of three.

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Practice the conversation

Image: QR code for the AI Conversation Simulator with this event’s access key.

Animation: The QR code card rises in and the yellow corner brackets snap into place around it; the text rises in.

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Questions?

Animation: on arrival, the heading and a decorative pair of speech bubbles rise in.

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Jon Fila

Image: Jon Fila in a navy blazer and white shirt against a gray background

Image: Inclusive AI Strategies logo

Animation: No animation.

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