Harnessing AI for quality teaching and learning
The role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology is increasingly evident in various sectors including education.
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The presence of AI technology has transformed the educational curriculum, especially in the fields of technology, science, mathematics and engineering.
In the face of this technology, educators can understand student needs more easily and deeply.
The students also can learn according to their needs without encountering many difficulties.
Artificial Intelligence is believed to be able to help humans learn better and achieve educational goals more effectively.
So it's not surprising that currently, many AI-based innovations and breakthroughs are being and will be applied to support the learning process to make it more practical and effective.
One of the strong beliefs that teachers cannot be replaced by AI is teacher collaboration with AI in the implementation of learning.
Teachers need to have skills in utilising science and technology so that they can take advantage of AI in terms of completing school administration such as making lesson plans, student attendance lists, reporting student learning outcomes, making learning media and learning.
Benefits
The function of AI which is currently quite widely applied to various educational technology platforms, especially those based online, is as a virtual mentor.
Mentoring is a process in which a more knowledgeable person (the mentor) assists a less-knowing person (the mentee) in achieving a learning objective.
AI can provide feedback on students' learning activities and practice questions, then provide recommendations for material that needs to be re-studied, like a teacher or tutor.
AI can be applied in the processing of repetitive administrative tasks that will save educators or lecturers from spending long hours grading and assessing exams and homework respectively.
Similarly, AI is being used for processing the admission of new students into educational institutions.
This AI technology has similarities with virtual mentors.
It's just that Voice Assistant relies more on the voice function as a centre for interaction and communication.
Voice assistants incorporate AI using cloud computing and can communicate with the users in natural language.
Smart Content is an AI technology that functions to share and find programmable digital books and material content more easily and quickly.
Common examples of the application of this technology are found in various digital libraries today, both in schools, universities and public libraries.
AI can find and categorise the books we are looking for quickly and structurally.
We will even be given book recommendations and other content relevant to what you are looking for.
Smart Content is a summary of various learning materials, from digital textbooks to interfaces that can be tailored to our needs.
AI presents many opportunities to share knowledge around the world.
Using Artificial Intelligence solutions, students can study various courses and training programmes.
Interactive learning materials
There are many platforms with interactive learning materials from the best tutors.
AI also provides opportunities for students who speak different languages or have vision or hearing problems.
AI is widely used for online automatic assessment and question correction purposes.
The use of features like this makes it easier for teachers and tutors to prepare and conduct quizzes and tests easily and practically.
Teachers and tutors no longer need to make questions and correct questions manually.
The use of features like this makes it easier for teachers and tutors to prepare and conduct quizzes and tests easily and practically.
Teachers and tutors no longer need to make questions and correct questions manually.
Personalised Learning bears some resemblance to other examples of AI technology.
In essence, this AI technology allows students or users to get services like personal assistants.
AI technology has a significant impact in improving the quality and learning patterns to be more practical and effective.
Educational games are games that are designed for learning but can still offer play and fun.
Educational games are all forms of games that are created to provide an educational or learning experience to the players of the game.
Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS), commonly known as Intelligent Computer-Aided Instruction is a system to provide teaching that can adapt to students' abilities.
It is one of the developments of an expert system of artificial intelligence in the field of learning.
The system adjusts to each student's unique characteristics and progresses them from an easier to a more difficult level.
The Intelligent Tutoring System is a computer programme that provides students with personalised education and feedback without the need for human intervention.
Recommendations
One overarching challenge for researchers in the field of AI and Education is to move beyond the realm of isolated projects in which each research group uses idiosyncratic conceptual frameworks and methods.
Instead, to realise progress in AI and Education, researchers, as a community, need to undertake collective scholarship that subdivides the task of responding to the challenges.
AI and Education researchers also need to be driven by the problems of education practice as they exist in school settings.
This will ensure that emerging forms of technology described here will also challenge, if not threaten, existing educational practices by suggesting new ways to learn or offering new support for students.
Policy issues that involve social and political considerations need to be addressed by the appropriate stakeholders.
Hardware and software components, tools and methods are also needed to support a service-oriented model of education.
The writer is a PhD candidate, University of Ghana
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