AI is poised to revolutionize the field of education, Gluska surmises, offering unprecedented opportunities to enhance learning experiences and potentially improve educational outcomes. Let us take a look at how the future role of AI in education holds great potential to transform the way we teach and learn.
Individual Learning And Assessments in Real Time
One size does not fit all, which is why differentiated instruction is so powerful. However, we can take this one step further now. With AI, customized tutors can be especially helpful for students who may struggle with traditional classroom learning or who need extra support to reach their full potential. Another benefit of this is that it can lessen the obstacles to a higher quality of life for students who, in the past, have had less opportunity due to race or income status.5 For example, teachers can assign a program to help with skills at home basically cloning themselves outside the classroom.
With this said, educators can also generate same-day analytics, thereby knowing how well their students are grasping concepts and where their weaknesses may lie. Essentially, this means real time assessments beyond a fun game like Kahoot. Not only can AI generate this data but it can also help the educator see how to teach the content to individual students. This may result in getting the remediations and timely interventions in place sooner than later. Now we have technology to assist in helping transient students sooner who may have otherwise fallen through the cracks due to human error. This brings new meaning to the old phrase, no child is ever left behind. According to Gluska, this individual AI-footprint software will recognize patterns and understand students like something never seen before.3
Easier Lesson Planning
AI can make lesson planning more fun because teachers have detailed information about students now, including their learning styles, progress from past lessons and assessment data. This can help tailor to individual needs and be a big time saver, which then can be applied to more quality uses of time like relationship building — which is something AI cannot accomplish.
Some colleges have dashboards that give students real time information about their engagement with course materials and resources, assignments and grades. Three types of data are revealed to the educator: Behavior patterns, decision-helping actions to take to improve grades and how one stands in a course. This inevitably should motivate a student where in the past, the educator held the locust of control. How exciting that we can empower students to own their educational journey.
Deep Virtual Experiences
Augmented reality (AR) is the coupling of digital information with the user's environment versus Virtual Reality (VR) which is not a real environment. In the education world, students can utilize these immersive technologies to relate more closely to the content. Think of chemistry labs, STEM, astronomy, humanities, novel reading — so many ways to engage the students and provide a hands-on learning experience.
